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05/21/2012
G8 Turns to Private Sector for Food Crisis Solutions
Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON, May 18 - On the eve of the Group of Eight (G8) summit near Washington, President Barack Obama on Friday unveiled a major new initiative aimed at shoring up food security and combating global hunger.(IPS)
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FINANCE
Protestors Demand Robin Hood Tax on Financial Transactions
Johanna Treblin
UNITED NATIONS, May 18 - Hundreds of nurses and protestors from other professions gathered on Friday in Chicago to call on world leaders to adopt a Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street transactions as a way to raise hundreds of billions of dollars every year to help heal the U.S. and world economies.(IPS)
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From Mubarak to Worse
Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO, May 18 - More than 15 months after Egypt's Tahrir Square uprising and four months after free parliamentary polls, many Egyptians say that daily living conditions are worse now than they were in the Mubarak era.(IPS)
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HAITI
Funding Dries Up Even as Rains Worsen Cholera Deaths
Jane Regan*
PORT-AU-PRINCE, May 18 - As predicted, the beginning of the rainy season in Haiti brought exponential increases in the numbers of people sickened and killed by cholera.(IPS)
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Bracing for a Massive Influx of Returnees
Jared Ferrie
JUBA, May 18 - In the wake of border tensions the United Nations is airlifting 12,000 southerners from a Sudanese frontier town into South Sudan. But they are returning home in the midst of an economic crisis that has the U.N. warning it may appeal for more funding to scale up humanitarian operations.(IPS)
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Industrialised Countries Under Critical Spotlight at U.N. Meet
Julio Godoy
BONN, Germany, May 18 - The latest session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taking place May 15-25 in the former German capital Bonn, is the perfect opportunity to reaffirm the enormous and growing body of scientific expertise on policies to tackle global warming.(IPS)
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U.S. Calls on Mali Junta to Withdraw from Politics
Souleymane Gano
DAKAR, May 18 - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson says Malian soldiers who overthrew the government on Mar. 22 have neither the right to remain in power nor the strength to deal with humanitarian and security challenges facing the West African country.(IPS)
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05/18/2012
Activists Brace for Long War Against Nuclear Power
Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO, May 17 - For the past two decades Masao Ishiji (59), has been fighting tooth and nail to ban the operation of four nuclear reactors that dot the western coastline of Oi in the Fukui prefecture facing the Japan Sea.(IPS)
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Over Objections, U.S. Lifts Myanmar Investment Ban
Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON, May 18 - In a highly anticipated confirmation, the United States on Thursday announced that it would be significantly rolling back bilateral economic restrictions that have been in place on Myanmar (Burma) for a decade and a half.(IPS)
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The Political Drones Get Louder
Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR, May 17 - Growing numbers of activists are beginning to counter U.S. Drone attacks into Pakistani territory. The activists are confronting the U.S., but increasingly now the Pakistani government for allowing such attacks to continue.(IPS)
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NATO's Twin Crises
John Feffer
WASHINGTON, May 17 - It's not an easy time for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).(IPS)
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Cuban Activists Defend Sexual Rights as Human Rights
Ivet González
HAVANA, May 17 - The Fifth Cuban Day Against Homophobia focused on recognising and including sexual rights as human rights, a cause increasingly advocated by activists demanding respect for sexual diversity in this Caribbean island nation.(IPS)
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OP-ED
Arab Autocrats Aiding Resurgence of Terrorism
Dr. Emile Nakhleh*
WASHINGTON, May 16 - The rising spectre of terrorism in Syria shows that by clinging to power and refusing to implement meaningful reforms, Arab autocrats in Syria, Bahrain, and elsewhere are indirectly contributing to the resurgence of terrorism in their societies.(IPS)
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05/17/2012
Rio+20
European Parliament Absent in Sustainability Summit
Julio Godoy
BERLIN, May 16 - The decision by the European Parliament (EP) to renounce its participation in the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development next month on the grounds that hotel costs are exorbitant has provoked sharp criticism from civil society organisations.(IPS)
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EU Feels Force of Israeli Demolitions
Daan Bauwens
BRUSSELS, May 16 - All 27 foreign ministers of the European Union have strongly spoken out against Israeli demolitions in Area C of the West Bank. Since the beginning of 2011 not less than 60 EU-funded projects have been demolished while 110 others are currently at risk. Several analysts claim the Israeli authorities are specifically targeting EU-funded projects.(IPS)
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