EGYPT: Ruling Party in Free Fall
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO, Oct 29 (IPS) – A high-ranking member of Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) is facing trial on charges of arranging the murder of a Lebanese pop singer. The case, along [...]
POLITICS-US: Plumbing the Depths of Spin
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Monday, October 27, 2008
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Analysis by Peter Costantini
LOS ANGELES, Oct 27 (IPS) – In the waning days of an interminable United States presidential campaign, a plumber and would-be small businessman bestrides the narrow race like a colossus with a tool belt.
Samuel [...]
ECONOMY: Civil Society Has Something to Say
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Monday, October 27, 2008
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Gustavo Capdevila
GENEVA, Oct 27 (IPS) – Governments cannot deal with the current financial crisis on their own, and need the support of the people they govern, which is ”best translated by the opinions of the civil [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Poor Hit by Recession and Tax Havens
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Monday, October 27, 2008
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David Cronin
BRUSSELS, Oct 27 (IPS) – With signs of a recession preoccupying policy-makers in industrialised countries, prospects for the success of an international conference on providing finance to the world’s poor do not appear high.
The United Nations [...]
AFRICA: Financial Crisis May Increase Pressure for Debt Repayment
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Saturday, October 25, 2008
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Stanley Kwenda*
MANZINI (Swaziland), Oct 25 (IPS) – The collapse of the financial markets may force the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to come down [...]
SOUTHERN AFRICA: More Debt But Still No Development
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Saturday, October 25, 2008
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Stanley Kwenda*
MANZINI (Swaziland), Oct 25 (IPS) – Shupikai Machinya, a Zimbabwean cross-border trader who attended the recent Southern Africa Social Forum in Manzini, Swaziland, is one of the many delegates who wanted to understand just how [...]
Q&A: ”We Are not Subversives, and We Demand Respect”
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Saturday, October 25, 2008
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Judith Henríquez Acuña interviews indigenous leader DANIEL PIÑACUÉ
VILLA RICA, Colombia, Oct 24 (IPS) – Colombian President Álvaro Uribe admitted that the security forces opened fire on indigenous protesters in the southwestern province of Cauca, but denies [...]
ECONOMY-US: It’s Not the ”Greedy Poor People”
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
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Analysis by William Fisher
NEW YORK, Oct 23 (IPS) – A 31-year-old law designed to put an end to ”redlining” and other restrictive practices that effectively shut poor and minority families out of home-ownership and neighbourhood development is [...]
Q&A: ”EU Should Place Greater Importance on Latin America”
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
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Mario de Queiroz interviews MARIO SOARES
LISBON, Oct 23 (IPS) – Mario Soares, two times president and three times prime minister of Portugal, says he is sorry that the European Union has not yet understood the importance [...]
Time to address trust deficit between Colombo and Tamils
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Monday, November 03, 2008
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Sunday, November 02, 2008
By Malladi Rama Rao
What a spat it was? It had turned upside down the logic of campaign journalists on either side of the Palk Strait. No surprise, therefore, all those in Colombo who have been painting a doomsday [...]
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