Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Ansel Herz PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Some 1.3 million people have lived in makeshift camps throughout Port-au-Prince since the January earthquake devastated the city. Living conditions are "appalling", according a recent report by Refugees International. But one bright spot of the multi-billion-dollar relief effort,…
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Oct
24
HAITI: Health Workers Scramble to Keep Cholera out of Crowded Camps
Oct
24
BRAZIL: Environment Meets Development en Route to the Pacific
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava RIO BRANCO, Brazil, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Acre, the small Brazilian state that is a symbol of the struggle to preserve the Amazon rainforest, is facing the challenge of ensuring that the development ushered in by two paved roads that will link the state…
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Oct
24
Cuban Treatment for Diabetic Foot Ulcers Heads for Europe
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Patricia Grogg HAVANA, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Cuba’s biotechnology industry is hoping to conquer the European Union market with Heberprot-P, a therapeutic drug used to prevent foot amputations in patients with diabetes. Heberprot-P, developed by the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Centre (CIGB), stimulates tissue healing…
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Oct
22
U.S.: Report Details Tea Party Ties with Hate Groups
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Oct 21, 2010 (IPS) – Asserting that "the majority of Tea Party supporters are sincere, principled people of good will", the head of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) and other U.S. civil rights leaders are calling on the populist political…
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Oct
20
AGENDA FOR OBAMA’S VISIT: COUNTER-TERRORISM
GNB’s Global Analyst B.RAMAN Indo-US co-operation in counter-terrorism has the following components: * Assistance in capacity building in traditional counter-terrorism: Started in the early 1980s during the administration of Ronald Reagan when some officers of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW) were sent initially to the UK and then…
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Oct
18
Q&A: Cuba’s Catholic Media Multiply, But Change Is Slow
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS HAVANA, Oct 17, 2010 (IPS) – In the context of ongoing conciliation between the Cuban government and the Roman Catholic Church, the communications media of the latter are growing quickly on this Caribbean island where the press remains under strict state control. All told, there are dozens…
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Oct
17
U.S. Weighs Endorsing Indigenous Rights Declaration
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Matthew O. Berger WASHINGTON, Oct 15, 2010 (IPS) – Just over three years after having voted against it at the United Nations, the United States is in the process of reviewing its position on the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The declaration lays…
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Oct
13
JAMAICA: Invasive Lionfish Go From Predator to Prey
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS Zadie Neufville* – IPS/IFEJ KINGSTON, Oct 12 (IPS) – Anxious to prevent the collapse of Jamaica’s overexploited marine fisheries, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is promoting the consumption of lionfish to control its burgeoning population. At risk officials say, are the nation’s marine biodiversity, its food…
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