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IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Dec 3, 2008
NEW YORK, Dec 3 (IPS) - As a group of retired military leaders prepared to urge U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to quickly put an end to the harsh interrogation practices inflicted on security prisoners, a new United …
IPS Inter Press Service - Dec 3, 2008
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Dec 3 (IPS) - When Jamaica's chief justice disqualified Daryl Vaz from sitting in Parliament last April, it brought into focus the complications surrounding dual citizenship, not only here but …
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs - Dec 3, 2008
TORONTO, Canada, Dec 3 (IPS) - International lust for the enormous mineral and resource riches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) abetted by international indifference has turned much of country into a …
IPS Inter Press Service - Environment - Dec 3, 2008
SANTA CRUZ DEL SUR, Cuba, Dec 3 (IPS) - She was born, grew up and lived all her life just a few steps from the sea, in the part of the city that everyone knows simply as La Playa (the beach). Although she was lucky …
IPS Inter Press Service - Africa - Dec 3, 2008
DAKAR, Dec 3 (IPS) - Mauritania's security forces are again accused of routine and systematic torture of political opponents and Islamists accused of links with international terrorist groups. A report released by …
IPS Inter Press Service - Environment - Dec 3, 2008
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 3 (IPS) - Although things have settled down, the dispute between Argentina and Uruguay over a paper pulp mill on a border river that has marred the fraternal relations between the two countries for …
IPS Inter Press Service - Dec 3, 2008
HAVANA, Dec 3 (IPS) - The rules for "being a man" that predominate in Latin America include "never saying no" to temptations out on the street, being "macho" -- hanging tough -- no matter what the risks, and above all …
IPS Inter Press Service - Dec 3, 2008
CAPE TOWN, Dec 3 (IPS) - The African National Congress (ANC) directive to increase the number of women on South Africa's ruling party's election lists to 50 percent (up from 30 percent) might actually weaken the role …
IPS Inter Press Service - Economy, Finance, Trade - Dec 3, 2008
BRUSSELS, Dec 3 (IPS) - The European Union is financing ecologically and socially destructive projects in Africa, a Brussels conference has been told.
IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Dec 3, 2008
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 (IPS) - After winning a gruelling 13-year court battle to avoid being jailed on charges of maliciously publishing false news, Malaysia's best-known human rights champion seeks a political career to …