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  1. AGRICULTURE: What Is Really Causing ‘Agflation’?

    IPS Inter Press Service - Latin America - Apr 30, 2008

    RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 25 (IPS) - The old laws of the marketplace are no longer working. Food prices have been rising for six years because of surging demand, and increased production is not restoring the balance as it

  2. RELIGION: Ethics - The Best Weapon Against Domestic Violence

    IPS Inter Press Service - Apr 30, 2008

    BOGOTÁ, Apr 30 (IPS) - Domestic violence, which is widespread in Latin America as in the rest of the world, makes it imperative to recover ethics as the core value for practices and efforts aimed at creating more

  3. RIGHTS: Native People Warn U.N. of Biofuels Disaster

    IPS Inter Press Service - Apr 30, 2008

    UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30 (IPS) - Growing demand for biofuels by the world's rich nations is propelling attacks on indigenous people and destroying their lands and forests, according to native leaders attending a

  4. CLIMATE CHANGE: Firms Coming Clean on Carbon

    IPS Inter Press Service - Apr 30, 2008

    JOHANNESBURG, Apr 30 (IPS) - Thousands of companies supplying some of the world's largest corporations know climate regulations are coming and are agreeing to measure their emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases.

  5. EUROPE: Tax Havens Cheating the Poor

    IPS Inter Press Service - Europe - Apr 30, 2008

    BRUSSELS, Apr 30 (IPS) - Tax havens in Europe are depriving poor countries of more money than they receive in development aid, it has been alleged.

  6. RUSSIA: Non-Presidential Putin Prepares for New Power

    IPS Inter Press Service - Europe - Apr 30, 2008

    MOSCOW, Apr 30 (IPS) - In his last days as President, Vladimir Putin has prepared to bring federal representatives under control of the cabinet in an effort to influence policy after he takes over as Prime Minister.

  7. Q&A: Labour "Has to Weigh Up the Trade-offs" in Acting to Protect Workers

    IPS Inter Press Service - Southern Africa - Apr 30, 2008

    CAPE TOWN, Apr 30 (IPS) - Co-operation between the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and forerunners of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) goes back several

  8. TRADE-RUSSIA: Ethiopia Seeks Preferential Treatment for Coffee

    IPS Inter Press Service - Africa - Apr 30, 2008

    MOSCOW, Apr 30 (IPS) - After several months of trade negotiations in the joint Russian-Ethiopian economic commission, Russia is considering allowing Ethiopia to bring in its different brands of aromatic coffees on a

  9. CANADA: Jewish Defence League Energised by Israel's Far Right

    IPS Inter Press Service - North America - Apr 30, 2008

    TORONTO, Apr 30 (IPS) - Like an aging group of retro rocker musicians, the Jewish Defence League (JDL) resurfaced in Toronto recently after a decade of dormancy, trying to look a little more mainstream.

  10. RIGHTS-US: Sky-High Costs - But Few Executions

    IPS Inter Press Service - North America - Apr 30, 2008

    SEATTLE, Apr 30 (IPS) - Forget the ethics of capital punishment in the United States. Forget the disproportionate number of blacks on death row, or the possibility of executing an innocent victim. The death penalty may

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