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  1. DEVELOPMENT: ‘No Bailout Plan for the Vulnerable’

    IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs - Dec 3, 2008

    DOHA, Dec 2 (IPS) - "Good but not enough!" "Missed opportunity!" "Talks fail to deliver!" These were some of the reactions from civil society as the U.N. Financing for Development (FfD) talks drew to a close in Doha

  2. INDIA: Mulling Tough Options Against Pakistan

    IPS Inter Press Service - Culture, Religion, Sport - Dec 2, 2008

    NEW DELHI, Dec 3 (IPS) - United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in the Indian capital Wednesday to try and soothe nerves frayed by last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, but is likely to face an

  3. POLITICS: Muslim-Majority Nations Back More Independent U.N.

    IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Dec 2, 2008

    UNITED NATIONS, Dec 2 (IPS) - People in seven majority Muslim countries favour a more active United Nations with broader powers, while simultaneously viewing the world body as dominated by the U.S. and failing to deal

  4. U.S.: Obama Urged to Quickly Engage Iran, Syria

    IPS Inter Press Service - Dec 2, 2008

    WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (IPS) - The incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama should move quickly to engage Iran without preconditions and to promote an Israeli-Syrian peace accord, according to two veteran

  5. ENVIRONMENT: Health - a Victim of Climate Change

    IPS Inter Press Service - Latin America - Dec 2, 2008

    MÉRIDA, Mexico, Dec 2 (IPS) - More malaria, diarrhea, and asthma: these diseases are on the rise around the world because of environmental destruction and kill some three million children under five and two million

  6. ENVIRONMENT: Health - a Victim

    IPS Inter Press Service - Development - Dec 2, 2008

    MÉRIDA, Mexico, Dec 2 (IPS) - More malaria, diarrhea, and asthma: these diseases are on the rise around the world because of environmental destruction and kill some three million children under five and two million

  7. RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Where Homophobia Totes a Gun

    IPS Inter Press Service - Latin America - Dec 2, 2008

    BOGOTA, Dec 2 (IPS) - Homosexuals can remain in the closet and not be noticed, but that is not an acceptable alternative for transgender people who suffer violence to a greater extent in Colombia, where armed

  8. DEVELOPMENT: New Food Must Go Nuclear

    IPS Inter Press Service - Dec 2, 2008

    LONDON, Dec 2 (IPS) - Better crops on the one hand, and nuclear power on the other might be, you would think, at extreme ends of the technological, and for some, even the moral spectrum. But it could be time to make

  9. Q&A: Unions Are Key to Healthy Auto Industry

    IPS Inter Press Service - North America - Dec 2, 2008

    DETROIT, Michigan, Dec 2 (IPS) - For the last six years, Ron Gettelfinger has been president of the 640,000-member United Auto Workers (UAW), the union that has been the face of the working men and women manufacturing

  10. POLITICS-THAILAND: Gov't Falls As Court Bans Ruling Party

    IPS Inter Press Service - Asia Pacific - Dec 2, 2008

    BANGKOK, Dec 2 (IPS) - A legacy of Thailand’s last military regime prevailed in a superior court’s judgement Tuesday to dissolve the ruling party, which was elected at a December 2007 poll to succeed that very junta

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