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IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Oct 31, 2007
ZABUL, Nov 1 (IPS) - In a mud-walled village on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Qalat, police checkpoint commander Abdul Rasool complains he is tired of his country's six-year war and longs for peace.
IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Oct 31, 2007
WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (IPS) - Amid growing contention among Democratic presidential contenders about U.S. policy toward Iran, a senior Republican lawmaker has appealed to President George W. Bush to pursue "direct …
IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Oct 31, 2007
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (IPS) - The 192-member U.N. General Assembly is expected to vote, perhaps by early or mid-November, on one of the most divisive political issues before the world body: a moratorium on the death …
IPS Inter Press Service - Oct 31, 2007
LIMA, Oct 31 (IPS) - Peruvian Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo signed a memorandum of understanding with mayors and governors opposed to the Majaz mining company’s Río Blanco project, which the people of the Piura …
IPS Inter Press Service - Oct 31, 2007
MADRID, Oct 31 (IPS) - A court in Madrid Wednesday sentenced three men to up to 42,000 years in prison for the Mar. 11, 2004 train bombings that killed 191 people and injured nearly 2,000 in the Spanish capital …
IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Oct 31, 2007
ROME, Oct 31 (IPS) - Regular migrants have reached 6.2 percent of the population of Italy, above the European average of 5.6 percent. In the next 20-30 years, Italy is destined to become one of the EU countries with …
IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Oct 31, 2007
CAPE TOWN, Oct 31 (IPS) - Félicien Kabuga has a reward of several million dollars on his head, and tops the list of fugitives of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Yet, he's managed to escape …
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs - Oct 31, 2007
WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (IPS) - Burma's military government will face another round of international scrutiny next week when the U.N. Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict meets to consider evidence …
IPS Inter Press Service - Caribbean - Oct 31, 2007
SANTO DOMINGO, Oct 31 (IPS) - Discrimination against Haitians and their descendants "only exists in the minds of a few sick people" who wish to do the Dominican Republic harm, said governing coalition legislator José …
IPS Inter Press Service - Development - Oct 31, 2007
MANAGUA, Oct 31 (IPS) - Nearly 90 women have died in Nicaragua as a direct or indirect result of the repeal, one year ago, of the legislation permitting abortion in cases of risk to the mother’s health, according to …