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» 2007Dec 30, 2007
FREETOWN, Dec 30 (IPS) - Sierra Leoneans will doubtless celebrate the past year as one in which their country distanced itself still further from a war-torn past, by holding general elections in August that were …
Dec 30, 2007
BEIJING, Dec 30 (IPS) - For a former guerilla party that derives legitimacy by providing economic prosperity to 1.3 billion people, the revelation that Chinese Communist Party leaders, polled in a recent survey, saw …
Dec 29, 2007
BEIRUT, Dec 29 (IPS) - This year, Lebanon has witnessed a series of unfortunate events. With demonstrations, street confrontations, rising religious tensions, assassinations, an internal war, economic recession and a …
Dec 29, 2007
JERUSALEM, Dec 29 (IPS) - At the start of 2007, it seemed that war would cost Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert his job. As he completed the year, still in office, the greatest threat to him staying there now seems to …
Dec 27, 2007
CARACAS, Dec 27 (IPS) - As left-leaning forces have been elected to power in several countries in South America’s Andean region, they have undertaken constitutional reforms to incorporate far-reaching economic and …
Dec 27, 2007
SANTIAGO, Dec 27 (IPS) - "Where Are They?" is the title of an installation by Chilean artist Iván Navarro, prompting visitors to pick out, from a gigantic word search puzzle, the names of 332 agents who tortured and …
Dec 26, 2007
KATHMANDU, Dec 26 (IPS) - Having negotiated an agreement for the formal abolition of the 240-year-old monarchy, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is now set to rejoin the government.
Dec 24, 2007
BEIRUT, Dec 24 (IPS) - In the maze of dirty streets that spreads from Beirut's revamped Sport City to the shabby Halabi quarters, 20,000 refugees are clustered in what is known as the Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian …
Dec 24, 2007
KARACHI, Dec 24 (IPS) - While authorities have attributed the Dec. 19 railway tragedy to a possible rail fracture from cold weather, experts say the issue is not about nuts and bolts but a reflection of overall …
Dec 22, 2007
BANGKOK, Dec 22 (IPS) - For nearly 30 years Cambodians have grappled with a question that no one in the country could answer with certainty: will the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime face justice for the …