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IPS Inter Press Service - Development - Dec 28, 2007
KHARTOUM, Dec 28 (IPS/IFEJ) - An oil-fuelled construction boom is giving Sudan's capital, Khartoum, an ever shinier veneer. However, some fear that this building spree is taking place at environmental cost.
IPS Inter Press Service - Asia Pacific - Dec 28, 2007
PESHAWAR, Dec 28 (IPS) - One day before she was killed in a gunfire attack-cum-suicide blast near the Pakistani capital city, Benazir Bhutto, was in this town in the North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) addressing an …
IPS Inter Press Service - Latin America - Dec 28, 2007
SAN SALVADOR, Dec 28 (IPS) - "It’s a condemnation of impunity," said activist Benjamín Cuellar, referring to an Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling against El Salvador for its lack of a thorough investigation …
IPS Inter Press Service - Media, Technology & Communications - Dec 28, 2007
OAKLAND, California, Dec 21 (IPS) - In 1897, the great American author and humorist Mark Twain, responding to stories that had him lying at death’s door declared, "The reports of my death have been greatly …
IPS Inter Press Service - Troubled Waters - Dec 28, 2007
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 28 (IPS) - More than 300 residents of Phiri, one of the poorest suburbs in Soweto, demonstrated outside the High Court in Johannesburg earlier this month to show support for a campaign to have …
IPS Inter Press Service - Dec 27, 2007
KARACHI, Dec 27 (IPS) - Of the 60 years that Pakistan has existed, a total of 40 have been under the direct or indirect rule of the army. Each round of martial law has left the army with even greater power and …
IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Dec 27, 2007
CARACAS, Dec 27 (IPS) - As left-leaning forces have been elected to power in several countries in South America’s Andean region, they have undertaken constitutional reforms to incorporate far-reaching economic and …
IPS Inter Press Service - North America - Dec 27, 2007
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 27 (IPS) - The assassination of Pakistan's opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto threatens to de-stabilise a country which the United States describes as a trusted ally and a …
IPS Inter Press Service - Development - Dec 27, 2007
OKEECHOBEE, Florida, Dec 27 (IPS) - Elementary school children in U.S. public schools are preparing for their winter holiday vacations, but at a charter school here on the Seminole Indian Tribe of Florida’s Brighton …
IPS Inter Press Service - East Africa - Dec 27, 2007
NAIROBI, Dec 27 (IPS) - Kenya's presidential, parliamentary and local council polls on Thursday were far from perfect. The main opposition candidate for the presidency and favourite to win the election could not …