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IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs - Dec 25, 2007
MELBOURNE, Dec 26 (IPS) - As Australia continues to call on Japan to abandon its whaling program, leading environmental groups are divided in their response to the government’s plan to stop Japanese whaling.
IPS Inter Press Service - Africa - Dec 24, 2007
BLANTYRE, Dec 24 (IPS) - Many communities around the world may take water for granted; but for those living along Malawi’s longest river, the Shire, water is something to die for. The 400 kilometre long river is the …
IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Dec 24, 2007
BEIRUT, Dec 24 (IPS) - In the maze of dirty streets that spreads from Beirut's revamped Sport City to the shabby Halabi quarters, 20,000 refugees are clustered in what is known as the Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian …
IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Dec 24, 2007
KARACHI, Dec 24 (IPS) - While authorities have attributed the Dec. 19 railway tragedy to a possible rail fracture from cold weather, experts say the issue is not about nuts and bolts but a reflection of overall …
IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Dec 24, 2007
PESHAWAR, Dec 24 (IPS) - As hundreds prostrated in prayer on one of Islam’s major festivals in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), last week, a powerful bomb exploded inside the mosque killing 48 …
IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Dec 24, 2007
GAZA CITY, Dec 24 (IPS) - "Santa Claus is empty handed this year…insolvent," says Father Manuel Musallam, head of the Holy Family School in Gaza City.
IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Dec 24, 2007
BANGKOK, Dec 24 (IPS) - Voters like Samon Somboon, a 39-year-old mother of five who makes a living collecting junk and scrap metal off the streets of Bangkok, find themselves on the side of victory. So, too, Thongdee …
IPS Inter Press Service - Asia Pacific - Dec 24, 2007
MELBOURNE, Dec 24 (IPS) - While advocates of asylum seekers have supported the new Australian government’s plan to wind down part of the so-called ‘Pacific Solution’ for processing claims for asylum, they argue that …
IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Dec 22, 2007
BANGKOK, Dec 22 (IPS) - For nearly 30 years Cambodians have grappled with a question that no one in the country could answer with certainty: will the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime face justice for the …
IPS Inter Press Service - Environment - Dec 22, 2007
GUATEMALA CITY, Dec 22 (IPS/IFEJ) - "Before, we didn't know how to market the coffee, or who would buy it in other countries, all we knew about was planting and harvesting," says Guatemalan coffee grower Pablo Pérez.