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7/29/2010
Poll Finds Dwindling Support for Iranian Government
Omid Memarian
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jul 28 (IPS) - A recent poll conducted by a credible Iranian university centre concerning the post-election events of 2009 has found that 56 percent of participants believe President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's popularity has declined over the past year, while just 22 percent believe it has increased. Opinions of Ahmadinejad in the capital Tehran declined, despite the fact that the president's cabinet enjoys a monopoly over state television and radio stations.
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Adios, Doe Run
Milagros Salazar
LIMA, Jul 28 (IPS) - Peruvian President Alan GarcÃa confirmed Wednesday that the permit of the U.S. mining and metallurgical company Doe Run to operate a major smelter complex was being cancelled because the firm missed the deadline for proving that it had the necessary financing to restart operations and complete an environmental cleanup.
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Global Governance and Sciences: Providing the UN-General Assembly with a Sciences Adviser
By Walther Lichem
Over the past four decades international decision-making processes have been marked by an increasing broadening of structures and processes related to the ever more complex Global Agenda of the international community with broader systems of interrelatedness and longer term implications of its multiple dimension.
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Newsbriefs
US Court Blocks Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law
Familiar Pledges on Child and Maternal Health in Africa
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7/28/2010
Verdict Marks End of Impunity for Khmer Rouge Torturer
Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Jul 27 (IPS) - For a country plagued by a weak judiciary and where government officials have profited from a culture of impunity, Monday's verdict in the first case to try a surviving commandant of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime broke new legal ground in Cambodia.
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Dutch Christian Group Backs Settlements
David Cronin
NIJKERK, The Netherlands, Jul 27 (IPS) - Sandwiched between giant car and furniture stores on a motorway stop-off, a blue-and-white Star of David flag droops nonchalantly on a stifling summer's day. The factory-like building beside it could easily be missed by a traveller who blinks too soon, yet the work undertaken here in the Israel Centre is far from commonplace.
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Egypt Punishes Gaza More
Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani
CAIRO, Jul 27 (IPS) - Almost two months since Egypt announced it would reopen its Rafah border terminal with the Gaza Strip, operation of the crossing remains sorely limited. "Rafah has only been opened to passengers and some medical supplies," Hatem el-Buluk, journalist and resident of Al-Arish, located some 40 kilometres west of Rafah, told IPS. "Everything else, including food and construction materials, must enter the strip via Israeli-controlled border crossings."
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Q&A "NGOs Are Here to Stay"
Aprille Muscara interviews SAM WORTHINGTON, president and CEO of InterAction
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 (IPS) - InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based NGOs, with over 190 members. Its head, Sam Worthington, spoke recently with IPS about the role of NGOs in Haiti, the U.S. and throughout the world.
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Free Trade in Natural Resources Bad for Development"
Isolda Agazzi
GENEVA, Jul 27 (IPS) - While some believe that restrictions on natural resource exports should be done away with, this could cause an increase in such exports that would be detrimental to the environment and bad for development. Many African countries follow the strategy of exporting as much as they can and, since they are uncompetitive in manufactures and services, they export raw materials, Mark Halle, director of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, said in an interview with IPS about the World Trade Report 2010 on trade in natural resources.
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Youngsters Rebel Against 'Authoritarian' Parenting
Mitch Moxley
BEIJING, Jul 27 (IPS) - Fourteen years ago, Fang Xin declared war on her parents. Whatever they wanted of her, Fang, now 28, did the opposite. She refused to watch news broadcasts by the state's China Central Television, or the annual Spring Festival Gala, with her father and mother. She would not eat meals with her family. When it came time for university, she ignored her parents' wishes and attended a school far from her hometown. The latest battle was fought last year, when her parents wanted Fang to become a mother.
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