Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Zack Baddorf DAMASCUS, May 2 (IPS) – ”I’ll go to any country,” says Zirgon Tomas al-Aya, a 60-year-old Iraqi standing outside the UN Refugee Agency headquarters in Damascus. ”I like Syria but I can’t work here, I [...]
UKRAINE: Ungovernable As Always
May 2, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Zoltán Dujisin PRAGUE, May 2 (IPS) – The conflict between the pro-Western allies governing Ukraine, President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yuliya Timoshenko, is escalating in a country made ungovernable by political ambitions. The post-Soviet [...]
Q&A: Singing to a Political Beat
April 28, 2008 By
Interview with Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour Global News Blog / IPS Monday, April 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. BRUSSELS, Apr 28 (IPS) – If a European rock music fan has just one album by an African artist in his or her collection, there is a higher than average chance [...]
BULGARIA: Two Iraqis Did Make It
April 28, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Monday, April 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Claudia Ciobanu SOFIA, Apr 28 (IPS) – Bulgaria, sometimes considered a safe haven for Iraqi asylum seekers, has denied refugee status to all but two applicants from Iraq since December last year. Bulgaria’s move contributes to blocking [...]
EUROPE: Subsidies Feeding Food Scarcity
April 25, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS April 25, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Julio Godoy BERLIN, Apr 25 (IPS) – European subsidies for agriculture are contributing to rapidly rising food prices and the destruction of small-scale farming in the South, experts say. ”Farmers in countries of the South cannot compete [...]
TRADE-AFRICA: Conflicting Views Over EPAs in French Government
April 24, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS April 24, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Hilaire Avril PARIS, Apr 24 (IPS) – As it prepares to assume the presidency of the European Union in July one of the main issues on France’s agenda will be the economic partnership agreements (EPAs). But with less [...]
EUROPE: Sanctions on Burma To Be Extended
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Global News Blog / IPS April 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Apr 23 (IPS) – Sanctions imposed by the European Union on Burma look set to be extended for an extra year because of the lack of progress on human rights in the military-ruled country. [...]
