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Yearly Archives: 2007, 2008

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  1. PARAGUAY-BRAZIL: Lugo to Seek New Terms for Itaipú Dam

    18 hours ago

    RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 5 (IPS) - Paraguay’s new government wants to increase ninefold the revenues the country takes in from the sale of its share of the energy generated by the Itaipú hydroelectric dam, which it runs

  2. SOUTH AFRICA-VENEZUELA: Forging a ‘Strategic Alliance’

    Sep 4, 2008

    CARACAS, Sep 4 (IPS) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki announced that their countries have a "strategic" relationship, before signing a framework cooperation agreement in

  3. DEVELOPMENT: U.N. Warns of Faltering Goals on Aid, Trade

    Sep 4, 2008

    UNITED NATIONS, Sep 4 (IPS) - When the United Nations approved a set of development goals on poverty, health, gender empowerment, and sustainable environment back in September 2000, it laid down a deadline of 2015 to

  4. POLITICS-ANGOLA: Economy Weighing On Voters' Minds

    Sep 4, 2008

    LUANDA, Sep 4 (IPS) - Angola's economy may be booming on the back of high oil prices and strong diamond exports, but six years after a peace deal ended the 27-year civil war, unemployment stands at around 65 percent.

  5. MEDIA-INDIA: Columnists Support Kashmir's Secession

    Sep 3, 2008

    NEW DELHI, Sep 4 (IPS) - "Anti-national" is the charge hurled in India at the usual radical suspects who argue for the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people.