Global News Blog / IPS Tuesday, May 06, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Anil Netto PENANG, May 6 (IPS) – With stock markets and the property sector in the United States weakening, speculative investors are turning to fuels and the food sector as a ”safe haven”, driving up [...]
BOLIVIA: Violent Pro-Autonomy Election Day in Santa Cruz
May 4, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Sunday, May 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Franz Chávez SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia, May 4 (IPS) – At least eight people were injured in clashes between backers of the autonomy referendum held Sunday in the eastern Bolivian province of Santa Cruz and supporters of the [...]
Q&A: ”We Mustn’t Think as South Africans That We Have Won the Day”
May 4, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Sunday, May 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Interview with Paul Verryn JOHANNESBURG, May 4 (IPS) – Bishop Paul Verryn, who directs the Central Methodist Mission in Johannesburg, South Africa, has long been on the frontlines of the country’s political struggles. Born in 1952 in [...]
