Inter Press Service English News Wire back issues from January 2008:
MIDEAST: RIFT BETWEEN HAMAS, FATAH CASTS PALL OVER PEACE TALKS
Jan 02, 2008; ... Peter Hirschberg Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-02-2008 JERUSALEM, Jan. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has renewed peace talks with Israel, agreeing to make every effort to forge a peace deal with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert by the ...
SOUTH AFRICA: SANITATION IMPROVES AS STATE INSTALLS TOILETS
Jan 02, 2008; ... Steven Lang Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-02-2008 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jan. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry has narrowly missed one of its most important sanitation targets: the total discontinuation of the ...
MALAYSIA: RULING COALITION PREPARES FOR TOUGH ELECTION
Jan 02, 2008; ... Analysis by Anil Netto Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-02-2008 PENANG, Malaysia, Jan. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Malaysia is entering what is widely expected to be an election year with a noticeably frail ruling coalition.Economic grievances, inter-religious disputes ...
AUSTRALIA: COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF ACQUITTED TERRORISM SUSPECT
Jan 02, 2008; ... Stephen de Tarczynski Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-02-2008 MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The decision by Australia's federal court to uphold an earlier ruling reinstating the work visa of terror suspect Mohammed Haneef has set a small ...
U.N.: SECURITY COUNCIL DESCRIBES ATTACK ON BHUTTO AS TERRORISM
Jan 02, 2008; ... Analysis by Haider Rizvi Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-02-2008 UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 1, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Analysts are watching to see whether the United Nations Security Council calls for an investigation of the assassination of popular Pakistani leader Benazir ...
BURKINA FASO: CITY OFFICIALS INSTALL TOILETS IN OUAGADOUGOU
Jan 02, 2008; ... Brahima Ouedraogo/IFEJ * Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-02-2008 OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, Dec. 31, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- The installation of modern toilets has improved sanitation conditions in areas of Burkina Faso's capital during the rainy seasons, when waste from ...
EU/LIBYA: REALPOLITIK DRIVES RESUMPTION OF TIES WITH GADDAFI
Jan 02, 2008; ... Michael Deibert Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-02-2008 PARIS, Dec. 31, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- European nations have ostensibly welcomed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi back into their diplomatic good graces, but controversy surrounding his human rights record has made for ...
SOUTH AFRICA: CRITICS SAY WOMEN'S RIGHTS MAY LAG UNDER ZUMA
Jan 02, 2008; ... Stephanie Nieuwoudt Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-02-2008 CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Dec. 31, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Women in South Africa's ruling African National Congress are starting the New Year with a key gain in hand: the party's agreement to incorporate women ...
U.S.: HIGH-PROFILE JEWISH AGENCY EMBRACES CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS
Jan 03, 2008; ... Bill Berkowitz* Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-03-2008 OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Late last month the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews was declared a funding partner of the Jewish Agency of Israel, a powerful group that helped found ...
U.S.: PILOT PROGRAMS SENSITIZE HAIR STYLISTS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Jan 03, 2008; ... Abra Pollock Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-03-2008 WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- A family services agency in New York City has launched a three-year pilot project to partner with local hair salons and train stylists on how to identify cases of domestic ...
Q&A: CAPE VERDE IS RECLASSIFIED AS 'MIDDLE-INCOME' COUNTRY
Jan 03, 2008; ... Mario de Queiroz Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-03-2008 LISBON, Jan. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Foreign Minister Vctor Barbosa Borges of Cape Verde is uncomfortable with the idea that this small Atlantic archipelago should serve as an example for the rest of Africa. ...
KENYA: VIOLENCE FORCES OPPOSITION PARTY TO POSTPONE RALLY
Jan 03, 2008; ... Najum Mushtaq and Jacklynne Hobbs Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-03-2008 NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Opposition officials decided to postpone a rally that was supposed to take place Thursday in Kenya's capital after police officers clashed ...
AUSTRALIA: FORMER DETAINEE LIVES UNDER STRICT CONTROL ORDER
Jan 03, 2008; ... Stephen de Tarczynski Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-03-2008 MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- David Hicks, the former Guantnamo Bay inmate who became known as the "Australian Taliban" is savoring his freedom, but lawyers and human rights activists ...
SPAIN: RULING SOCIALIST PARTY REPRIMANDS CATHOLIC CHURCH
Jan 03, 2008; ... Tito Drago Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-03-2008 MADRID, Spain, Jan. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Spain's governing socialist party announced Wednesday that the Spanish Catholic Church "has strayed from the fundamentals of democracy," speaking in response to criticism ...
U.S.: LAWYERS CALL FOR REFORM OF TERRORISM-FINANCING LAW
Jan 03, 2008; ... William Fisher Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-03-2008 NEW YORK, Jan. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Prominent constitutional lawyers are seeking substantial changes in the United States' terrorism-financing law, in part due to the government's tendency to use the legislation ...
BRAZIL: INFLATION THREATENS TO STYMIE LULA'S ECONOMIC PLANS
Jan 03, 2008; ... Mario Osava Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-03-2008 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Jan. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The Brazilian economy is finally coming close to becoming the "broad mass consumer market" that President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva pledged to engender back in 2002 ...
KENYA: PROTESTERS CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL PROBE OF ELECTION
Jan 03, 2008; ... Thalif Deen Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-03-2008 UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Continued riots and killings in Kenya are threatening to destabilize the East African nation, which has been a staunch U.S. ally in the global fight against terrorism. ...
COLOMBIA: FARC DELAYS HOSTAGE SWAP, CITING MILITARY PRESENCE
Jan 03, 2008; ... Analysis by Constanza Vieira Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-03-2008 CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- -- "Uribe, reflect, my brother, let's work for peace," Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez said, urging Colombian President lvaro Uribe to work with the ...
U.S.: RICE AND GATES CLASH OVER IRAN'S ROLE IN IRAQ
Jan 03, 2008; ... Analysis by Gareth Porter* Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-03-2008 WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates have diverged sharply over the question of how to portray Iran's role in Iraq.A ...
IRAQ: REFUGEE CRISIS, FOREIGN TROOPS CAST PALL OVER NEW YEAR
Jan 03, 2008; ... Analysis by Dahr Jamail Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-03-2008 WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Near the end of 2007, the Bush administration and the Iraqi government pushed a resolution through the U.N. Security Council to extend by another year the legal ...
CZECH REPUBLIC: CUNEK SEEKS TO REGAIN POSTS FOLLOWING SCANDAL
Jan 03, 2008; ... Zoltn Dujisin Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-03-2008 PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Jan. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Former deputy prime minister Jiri Cunek was ranked as the most disappointing Czech politician of 2007 in a poll published Dec. 27, but he is nevertheless ...
EGYPT: HUNDREDS OF PALESTINIANS REMAIN STRANDED AT BORDER
Jan 03, 2008; ... Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-03-2008 CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Hundreds of Palestinians remain in limbo on the Egyptian side of the border, following last summer's closure of the Rafah crossing between Egypt's ...
CUBA: GOVERNMENT PLEDGES TO BOOST FOOD PRODUCTION IN 2008
Jan 04, 2008; ... Patricia Grogg Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-04-2008 HAVANA, Jan. 4, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Participants in the popular debates convened by the Cuban government in the second half of 2007 consistently brought up the issue of food, underscoring the need for an increase ...
UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVISTS CALL FOR BOYCOTT OF CHILD-PICKED COTTON
Jan 04, 2008; ... Kester Kenn Klomegah Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-04-2008 MOSCOW, Jan. 4, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- A group of civil society activists has called for the immediate boycott of Uzbek cotton produced by children working under forced labor conditions.In other developing ...
EUROPE: 16-YEAR-OLD SLOVENIA TAKES CHARGE OF EUROPEAN UNION
Jan 04, 2008; ... Vesna Peric Zimonjic Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-04-2008 BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro, Jan. 4, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Slovenia took the rotating presidency of the 27-member European Union on Jan. 1 and is set to govern the bloc for the next six months.The country, ...
BURMA: FARMERS' HASTY RESPONSE MITIGATES BIRD FLU OUTBREAK
Jan 04, 2008; ... Marwaan Macan-Markar Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-04-2008 BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan. 4, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Avian flu experts are concerned about the recent flu outbreak among poultry in Burma's eastern Shan State, but they are also relieved by the speed with which ...
U.S.: TV NETWORKS' FOREIGN NEWS COVERAGE DWINDLED IN 2007
Jan 04, 2008; ... Jim Lobe Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-04-2008 WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Foreign news coverage by the three major U.S. television networks declined significantly in 2007, according to the latest annual review by the authoritative Tyndall Report....
SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT ABOLISHES CEASEFIRE WITH TAMIL REBELS
Jan 04, 2008; ... Thalif Deen Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-04-2008 UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The Sri Lankan government is planning to conduct a do-or-die military battle against Tamil separatists in the country's politically troubled northern and eastern ...
CHILE: MAPUCHE AGRONOMY STUDENT DIES IN CONFLICT WITH POLICE
Jan 04, 2008; ... Daniela Estrada Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-04-2008 SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- An indigenous Mapuche university student was shot and killed early Thursday morning during a run-in with police officers at a rural estate in the southern Chilean ...
U.S.: NEW YORK CITY NEEDS MORE PUBLIC TOILETS, ACTIVISTS SAY
Jan 04, 2008; ... Nergui Manalsuren Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-04-2008 NEW YORK, Jan. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Singapore beats New York City hands down when it comes to public restrooms per capita.Perhaps that's why so many New York sidewalks and streets stink of urine ....
LATIN AMERICA: MILL CONFLICT CONTINUES TO DELAY INTEGRATON
Jan 04, 2008; ... Mario Osava* Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-04-2008 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Jan. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The Southern Common Market will be 17 years old in three months' time, but no one seems to be willing or able to speed up the South American bloc's integration ...
ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT STRUGGLES TO KEEP TEENS IN SCHOOL
Jan 04, 2008; ... Sebastin Lacunza Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-04-2008 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Jan. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Successive economic and social crises in Argentina have left their mark on the public education system, producing high drop-out rates in secondary school and ...
SPAIN: CRITICS ACCUSE GREEN ENERGY FIRMS OF UNETHICAL PRACTICES
Jan 07, 2008; ... Tito Drago Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-07-2008 MADRID, Spain, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The renewable energy industry is booming in Spain, but environmental groups say it has been a struggle to ensure that the renewable energy companies actually live up to ...
IRAQ: CHIEF PRAISES IRAQI SOLDIER FOR KILLING U.S. COWORKERS
Jan 07, 2008; ... Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-07-2008 BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The recent killing of two U.S. soldiers by their Iraqi colleague has been described by some as a traitorous act inspired by alleged links to "Sunni ...
BALKANS: SERBS HOPE TO PROFIT FROM PRIVATIZATION OF STATE FIRMS
Jan 07, 2008; ... Vesna Peric Zimonjic Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-07-2008 BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The Kosovo dispute is dominating the attention of Serbia's official media, but many Serbs are much more concerned with a privatization law that came ...
GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI TRIUMPHS IN SHADY PRESIDENTIAL POLL
Jan 07, 2008; ... Kester Kenn Klomegah Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-07-2008 MOSCOW, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Mikheil Saakashvili has been elected to a second term of presidency in Georgia, leading with 55.23 percent of the vote, but electoral disputes are marring the credibility ...
ZIMBABWE: FAMILIES SCRAPE BY ON REMITTANCES FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Jan 07, 2008; ... Elles van Gelder Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-07-2008 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Sikhumbuzo was only 18 when he left Zimbabwe for South Africa. He managed to find a job and now sends home close to $150 a month in cash and goods....
THAILAND: ELECTION COMMISSION MAY DELAY PARLIAMENT SESSION
Jan 07, 2008; ... Marwaan Macan-Markar Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-07-2008 BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Members of Thailand's new parliament are wondering whether they will be allowed to hold their first session on schedule, following a threat made over the ...
FINANCE: IMF'S INTERNAL WATCHDOG OFFICE FAULTS LOAN CONDITIONS
Jan 07, 2008; ... Abid Aslam Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-07-2008 WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The International Monetary Fund has continued to burden its borrowers with superfluous demands, despite its efforts to streamline the loan process, according to the fund's own ...
PAKISTAN: BHUTTO'S MURDER REKINDLES ETHNIC TENSIONS
Jan 07, 2008; ... Analysis by Irfan Ahmed Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-07-2008 LAHORE, Pakistan, Jan. 5, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the powerful Pakistan People's Party, has pushed to the brink a country already struggling with regionalism ...
VENEZUELA: CHAVEZ RESHUFFLES CABINET, EMBRACING MODERATES
Jan 07, 2008; ... Estrella Gutirrez Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-07-2008 CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 4, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez has carried out his most sweeping cabinet reshuffle yet, with the declared intent of giving a boost to his socialist revolution, ...
U.S.: IOWA CAUCUSES BOOST CAMPAIGNS OF OBAMA, HUCKABEE
Jan 07, 2008; ... Jim Lobe Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-07-2008 WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and former Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee emerged from Thursday's Iowa caucuses with the most momentum in the 2008 race for the White House.The ...
MEXICO: MAIZE MARKET ADJUSTS TO TARIFF-FREE IMPORTS
Jan 07, 2008; ... Diego Cevallos Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-07-2008 MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Jan. 4, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Activists in Mexico have deplored the Jan. 1 elimination of all barriers to imported maize, but some trade consultants say this final stage of trade liberalization ...
Q&A-KENYA: RIOTS, SHORTAGES LEAVE KISII RESIDENTS STRANDED
Jan 07, 2008; ... Jacklynne Hobbs Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-07-2008 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jan. 4, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The violence that has riven Kenya since President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election has trapped residents of Kisii inside the limits of that west Kenyan ...
MALAYSIA: STATE FORBIDS MENTION OF 'ALLAH' IN CHURCHES, TEMPLES
Jan 08, 2008; ... Baradan Kuppusasmy Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-08-2008 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan. 8, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The Malaysian government has announced that certain Arabic words such as "Allah" cannot be used in the literature, gospel and speeches of non-Muslims ...
LATIN AMERICA: UNEMPLOYMENT, DROPOUT RATES RISE AMONG YOUTH
Jan 08, 2008; ... Fabiana Frayssinet Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-08-2008 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Jan. 8, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Seven million young Brazilians and nearly 800,000 young Argentineans are swelling the ranks of Latin American youths who neither work nor study.The ...
BURMA: JUNTA CLAMPS DOWN ON 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE
Jan 08, 2008; ... Moe Yu May Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-08-2008 RANGOON, Burma, Jan. 8, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Burma's military leaders closed the main road of the country's capital for two hours on the morning of Jan. 4 in an attempt to quell pro-democracy protests on the 60th ...
U.S.: ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SUE SHELL OIL OVER AIR POLLUTION
Jan 08, 2008; ... Abid Aslam Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-08-2008 WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- U.S. environmentalists took Shell Oil Co. and several of its affiliates to court Monday in an attempt to stop a refining and chemicals plant from polluting the area surrounding ...
KENYA: BAN KI-MOON SEEKS TO MEDIATE POLITICAL CRISIS
Jan 08, 2008; ... Haider Rizvi Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-08-2008 UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- U.N. officials are trying to bring the ruling party and opposition in Kenya together in dialogue to find a peaceful solution to the political violence that has already ...
EU: LISBON TREATY MAY LEAD TO PRIVATIZATION OF WATER
Jan 08, 2008; ... David Cronin Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-08-2008 BRUSSELS, Belgium, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Europe's water supply could increasingly be managed by private firms once a new European Union treaty enters into force, experts warned Monday.The delivery of ...
BRAZIL: BUDGET WOES FORCE LULA TO RAISE TAXES BEFORE ELECTION
Jan 08, 2008; ... Fabiana Frayssinet Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-08-2008 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- With local and regional elections around the corner, President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva is struggling to retain Brazilian voters' support, ...
MEXICO: TELEVISA FIRES JOURNALIST OVER 'EDITORIAL DIFFERENCES'
Jan 08, 2008; ... Diego Cevallos Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-08-2008 MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Prestigious independent radio commentator Carmen Aristegui, who has often criticized the powers that be in Mexico, was fired within the first few days of 2008. ...
CANADA: COLONIAL LEGACY FUELS SURGE IN INUIT SUICIDE RATE
Jan 08, 2008; ... Am Johal Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-08-2008 VANCOUVER, Canada, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Territorial and federal government health departments have failed to declare a public health emergency for the Inuit community, despite the fact that suicide rates for ...
CHINA: BIOTECH FIRMS EXPERIMENT WITH STEM CELL TREATMENTS
Jan 08, 2008; ... Stephen Leahy Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-08-2008 BROOKLIN, Canada, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- China's booming medical biotechnology industry is making big bucks by offering controversial drugs and gene therapy treatment programs to critically ill foreigners. ...
CENTRAL AMERICA: COSTA RICA DISCUSSES FREE TRADE WITH CHINA
Jan 08, 2008; ... Daniel Zueras Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-08-2008 SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- One by one, Central American countries are turning away from Taiwan in order to forge economic and political ties with the People's Republic of China....
BRAZIL: LANDLESS WORKERS' CAMP OFFERS ALTERNATIVE TO FAVELAS
Jan 08, 2008; ... Fabiana Frayssinet Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-08-2008 RESENDE, Brazil, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Eliana and her husband Eleidimar started the New Year with a sense of trepidation, knowing that at any moment they may be evicted from land they have occupied for ...
POLL: PAKISTANIS SEE U.S. AS WORSE THREAT THAN AL-QAIDA, TALIBAN
Jan 08, 2008; ... Jim Lobe Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-08-2008 WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Most Pakistanis consider the U.S. military presence in Asia and Afghanistan to be a more critical threat to their country than al-Qaida or Pakistan's own Taliban movement, ...
POLITICS: PREVALENCE OF WOMEN IN POWER SHIFTS PERCEIVED NORMS
Jan 09, 2008; ... Miren Gutirrez* Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-09-2008 ROME, Jan. 9, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- "Do you think a man could ever be president?" a little Irish boy asked his mother, having only seen female presidents within his lifetime. President Mary McAleese is currently at ...
POLITICS: WOMEN LEADERS DERIVE POWER FROM ELITE CONNECTIONS
Jan 09, 2008; ... Miren Gutierrez* Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-09-2008 ROME, Jan. 9, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The list of female rulers who have derived their power from their connections to elite men is a long and telling one.Most powerful women in government -- particularly though ...
SPAIN: CLINIC STAFFS PROTEST IMPRISONMENT OF ABORTION PROVIDERS
Jan 09, 2008; ... Alicia Fraerman Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-09-2008 MADRID, Spain, Jan. 9, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Staff members of abortion clinics in Spain began a five-day strike on Tuesday to draw attention to the arrests of clinic personnel in Barcelona, the capital of the ...
THAILAND: GREEN GROUPS SEEK COURT RULING AGAINST GM CROPS
Jan 09, 2008; ... Marwaan Macan-Markar Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-09-2008 BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan. 9, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Thai environmentalists are banking on the country's courts to overturn the military-appointed government's decision to allow field trials of genetically ...
MIDEAST: EGYPT ALLOWS STRANDED PALESTINIANS TO RETURN HOME
Jan 09, 2008; ... Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-09-2008 CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 9, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- More than 2,000 pilgrims have finally returned to the Gaza Strip via Egypt's Rafah crossing after being stuck on the border for five days.The ...
CHINA: HIGH OIL PRICES THREATEN TO DRIVE UP INFLATION
Jan 09, 2008; ... Antoneta Bezlova Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-09-2008 BEIJING, Jan. 9, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The unease among Chinese officials and pundits became palpable in early January when oil prices hit $100 per barrel.Despite the country's insatiable appetite for energy, ...
AUSTRALIA: VICTORIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS CHARTER FOCUSES ON POLICY
Jan 09, 2008; ... Stephen de Tarczynski Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-09-2008 MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 9, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Victoria became the first Australian state to implement a human rights charter on Jan. 1, winning praise for its efforts to champion ...
EAST AFRICA: TURMOIL IN KENYA MAY DIMINISH U.S. POWER IN REGION
Jan 09, 2008; ... Jim Lobe Inter Press Service English News Wire 01-09-2008 WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The ongoing turmoil in Kenya is prompting considerable concern in Washington because the East African nation has served as Washington's longest-standing and most reliable ally in ...