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RIGHTS-US: Muslim Charity to Get Its Day in Court

IPS Inter Press Service - 4 hours ago

NEW YORK, Oct 11 (IPS) - In what appears to be another stunning legal rebuke to President George W. Bush's policies in the "global war on terrorism", a federal judge has blocked the government from blacklisting a …
ECONOMY: U.S. Bows to Pressure, Will Buy Banks

IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - 5 hours ago

BOSTON, Oct 11 (IPS) - The George W. Bush administration announced Friday evening it would buy shares in troubled U.S. banks, a move that upstages its own rigid, free-market ideology, and answers calls for the action …
ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Pedalling Against Pollution

IPS Inter Press Service - Health - 9 hours ago

SANTIAGO, Oct 11 (Tierramérica) - As greenhouse gas emissions drive global warming and fuel prices continue to soar, pedalling has come back in style in many cities of the industrialised world. In Chile, as well …
ECONOMY: Calls for Change Mount at IMF, World Bank Meet

IPS Inter Press Service - Economy, Finance, Trade - 9 hours ago

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (IPS) - Gone are the mobs in the street. Faced with a global recession, those demanding change from the rulers of the global economy appear to be on the inside as the International Monetary Fund …
U.S.: McCain Sinks on Economy, Palin Pick, Negative Attacks

IPS Inter Press Service - 10 hours ago

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (IPS) - Overwhelmed by crashing stock markets and what is increasingly seen by even traditional conservatives as a Faustian bargain with the extreme right-wing core of his Republican Party, Sen. John …
SRI LANKA: Deep Plot Seen in Former Tiger Turning MP

IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - 18 hours ago

COLOMBO, Oct 11 (IPS) - It might have the script a Tamil blockbuster movie. When Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, eastern commander of the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), turned renegade in 2004 he could …
POLITICS-SENEGAL: Ms. Mayor, Ms. Prefect

IPS Inter Press Service - Culture, Religion, Sport - 18 hours ago

DAKAR, Oct 10 (IPS) - The Sicap Baobab neighborhood, one of the prettiest in the Senegalese capital, stands out, but not for the most obvious reasons. Not for its well-paved roads, or the number of naturalised …
ECONOMY-MEXICO: Bracing for the Blow

IPS Inter Press Service - North America - 22 hours ago

MEXICO CITY, Oct 10 (IPS) - The Mexican government has taken emergency financial measures to withstand the winds of crisis from the United States, which this country is heavily dependent on as shown by their daily …
EU: Defiant Guyana to be Punished

IPS Inter Press Service - Europe - 24 hours ago

BRUSSELS, Oct 10 (IPS) - The European Union is preparing to impose swingeing taxes on goods imported from Guyana as punishment for the Caribbean island's refusal to accept a free trade accord.
ENVIRONMENT: Because Oil Is Not Green

IPS Inter Press Service - Oct 10, 2008

BARCELONA, Oct 10 (IPS/Terraviva) - Several environmental organisations have asked the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to stop accepting funding from Shell, the giant international oil company.

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