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IPS Inter Press Service - East Africa - Dec 22, 2007
NAIROBI, Dec 22 (IPS) - At first glance, it seems like a good news story. When Kenya goes to the polls next week for general elections, it will do so with record numbers of women on the ballot.
IPS Inter Press Service - Health - Dec 22, 2007
WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (IPS) - Globalisation, climate change, and the mass production of biofuels are pushing up food prices worldwide, which could jeopardise the livelihoods of the world's poorest, according to a …
IPS Inter Press Service - Globalisation - Is It Working for People? - Dec 21, 2007
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Dec 21 (IPS) - Come Jan.1 a new trade and aid pact between fifteen Caribbean nations and the 27 members of the European Union (EU) kicks into force heralding in a new era in relations between the …
IPS Inter Press Service - Environment - Dec 21, 2007
BOSTON, Dec 21 (IPS/IFEJ) - The massive wildfires that roared and twisted their way through southern California in 2007 are a glimpse of what a future of global warming may hold, scientists say.
IPS Inter Press Service - Latin America - Dec 21, 2007
BOGOTA, Dec 21 (IPS) - After walking 800 km from Bogota, Colombian teacher Gustavo Moncayo, known as the "peace walker", crossed into Venezuela on his way to Caracas. Escorted by hundreds of supporters, the 55-year-old …
IPS Inter Press Service - Media, Technology & Communications - Dec 21, 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 - Neo-Cons - Dec 21, 2007
WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (IPS) - Human-rights and humanitarian groups are hailing provisions of a major appropriations bill approved by Congress this week that bans the export of most U.S.-made cluster bombs and U.S …
IPS Inter Press Service - Economy, Finance, Trade - Dec 21, 2007
MEXICO CITY, Dec 21 (IPS) - Mexico’s first experimental trials of genetically modified maize will take place next year, a government official has announced. The news has put environmental and campesino (small farmer) …
IPS Inter Press Service - Dec 21, 2007
BANGKOK, Dec 21 (IPS) - Thais voting Sunday in the first parliamentary polls since last year’s coup will be doing more than casting ballots for a favoured political party. Their choices may indicate how supportive …
IPS Inter Press Service - Dec 21, 2007
BANGALORE, Dec 21 (IPS) - A small but successful solar energy company involved in rural electrification in India is complaining that the Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism (CDM) has been of no practical use …