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BOLIVIA: BIG OIL AND GAS FIRMS BLAMED FOR ENVIRONMENT DAMAGE
TARIJA, Bolivia, Jul. 14, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Natural gas and oil drilling has a heavy environmental impact in the Aguaragüe Mountains, in southern Bolivia, and the nine companies responsible have not minimised the harm, says the local nongovernmental environment group Prometa, based in the southern city of Tarija.
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POLITICS: LONDON BLASTS CALLED A POLITICAL REACTION TO BUSH'S WARS
KARACHI, Jul. 14, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Prominent analysts in this country are calling the July 7 London bombings a political reaction to George Bush's "war on terror."
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LEBANON: NEW BOMBING GIVES RISE TO FEARS OF A NEW CIVIL WAR
BEIRUT, Jul. 13, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Lebanon has not really had the occasion yet to enjoy the departure of Syrian troops and the victory of anti-Syrian groups in the parliamentary elections last month.
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RIGHTS-TIBET: SPANISH COURT TO HEAR CHARGES OF CHINESE ABUSE IN TIBET
DHARAMSALA, India, Jul. 13, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- For former political prisoner Adhe Tapontsang, the 27 years she spent in a Chinese jail, for aiding the U.S.-backed Tibetan resistance in the 1950s, was sheer hell.
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WOMEN: CUBAN NOBEL NOMINEE SAYS THE WORD 'MINORITY' IS A SLUR
HAVANA, Jul. 13, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Nearly 20 years ago, when Lizette Vila began to work in Cuba with the disabled, transvestites, people living with HIV and alcoholics, she avoided talking about minorities, because "the word in itself was a kind of discrimination."
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BRAZIL: DESPITE SCANDALS, LULA'S APPROVAL RATINGS REMAIN HIGH
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul. 13, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- The string of corruption scandals that has affected Brazil's ruling party and its allies has not dented President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's personal popularity, according to the latest poll.
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VENEZUELA: CHAVEZ FOES PUT ON TRIAL, HEIGHTENING TENSION WITH U.S.
CARACAS, Jul. 13, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- The tension between Venezuela and the United States has been tightened by the start of a trial against four members of the U.S.-backed opposition group Súmate, including its leader, María Corina Machado, who met with President George W. Bush in the White House in May.
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POLITICS-U.S.: KARL ROVE, 'BUSH'S BRAIN,' BESIEGED OVER CIA LEAK
WASHINGTON, Jul. 13, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Battered by sagging poll numbers, new doubts after the London bombings about the war on terrorism, and no let up in the bad news out of Iraq, the White House has found itself this week embroiled in yet another controversy, one that threatens the credibility, if not the job, of the man widely known as President George W. Bush's "brain."
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MEXICO: ZAPATISTAS AREN'T THE ONLY ARMED GROUP READY FOR ACTION
MEXICO CITY, Jul. 12, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- The Zapatista guerrillas in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas are the best-known insurgent group in the country, but there are at least a dozen other armed rebel groups lying low.
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ENVIRONMENT: BIRDWATCHING GIVES PERU ECOTOURISM A BOOST
IQUITOS, Peru, Jul. 12, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- A Royal Sunangel (Heliangelus regalis), a rare hummingbird that has only been sighted in three spots in Peru, perches on a branch up ahead just as the sun is coming up.
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MEDIA: MICHAEL JACKSON - FAR AND AWAY OUTDREW - DARFUR ON THE NEWS
WASHINGTON, Jul. 12, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- U.S. broadcast media are failing to provide even minimal coverage of the ongoing crisis -- some say genocide -- in Darfur, Sudan, according to a new report, which concludes that media fixation with celebrity, as well as the Iraq war, is crowding out news of important events that deserve global attention.
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ARTS-ARGENTINA: USING TV TO TRACK TYRANNY'S LOST CHILDREN
BUENOS AIRES, Jul. 12, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- For more than 27 years, the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo have been searching for young people who were kidnapped as small children during Argentina's 1976-1983 U.S.-backed dictatorship or were born to political prisoners in clandestine detention centres.
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ENVIRONMENT: EXXONMOBIL HIT WITH BOYCOTT OVER GLOBAL WARMING
WASHINGTON, Jul. 12, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- An unusually broad coalition of 12 U.S. environmental and public-interest groups Tuesday launched a national boycott of ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil company, for undermining efforts to combat global warming and lobbying Congress to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling.
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RIGHTS-US: GAYS BRING LAWSUIT TO CHALLENGE MILITARY'S BAN
NEW YORK, Jul. 11, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Twelve gays and lesbians discharged from the military because of their sexual orientation are suing the U.S. government in an effort to overturn the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bars open homosexuals from serving.
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RIGHTS: MUSLIMS IN BRITAIN ON THEIR GUARD AFTER TERROR BLASTS
LONDON, Jul. 11, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- The bomb blasts in London last week that killed more than 50 and left more than 700 injured, have shaken the Muslim community of Britain.
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POLITICS: RALPH REED MAKES HIS MOVE, AND HITS A BUMP ON THE ROAD
OAKLAND, California, Jul. 11, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Ralph Reed, the wunderkind of the U.S. religious right during the 1990s, recently gathered supporters together for a rally promoting his candidacy for the lieutenant governor of Georgia -- a campaign many political observers believe is the former leader of the Christian Coalition's first step on the road toward higher office.
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INDONESIA: ACQUITTALS IN '84 MASSACRE COULD SET BACK U.S. TIES
WASHINGTON, Jul. 11, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- A recent appeals court decision to acquit 12 soldiers convicted last year of a 1984 massacre in Jakarta could complicate efforts by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to normalise military ties with the Southeast Asian nation.
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HEALTH: AIDS STALKS BURMESE MIGRANT WORKERS IN THAILAND
SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand, Jul. 11, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- It was fear that drove Ma Ne from her home in Burma's Mon state to this port town famous for its seafood processing factories. She wanted to escape the forced labor policy of the Burmese military regime.
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FINANCE: U.S. FREE-MARKET RHETORIC TRIPS OVER CHINA'S UNOCAL BID
WASHINGTON, Jul. 11, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- An unsolicited bid by the Chinese National Offshore Oil Co. (CNOOC) to buy Unocal, a major U.S. oil company, has put Washington's free market rhetoric to the test, with disappointing results, some analysts say.
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G8 SUMMIT: ONLY THE POP STARS ARE CELEBRATING AFRICA 'AID' PACKAGE
GLENEAGLES, Scotland, Jul. 11, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Outside of British officialdom, celebrations over increased G8 aid for Africa were confined mostly to a chorus of two -- rock stars Bob Geldof and Bono.
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U.S.: OUSTED GITMO GENERAL -'I WASN'T CODDLING, JUST DOING MY JOB'
NEW YORK, Jul. 11, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Many people will remember Janice Karpinsky, the U.S. Army Reserve brigadier general who was reprimanded and demoted for failing to stop the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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ENVIRONMENT: FRENCH NUCLEAR PLANTS FACE A DANGEROUS SUMMER
PARIS, Jul. 9, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- The northern hemisphere's summer began officially just a few weeks ago, but the high temperatures already recorded in France could prompt the shutdown of some of the 58 nuclear reactors that supply 80 percent of the country's energy.
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G8 SUMMIT: LONDON BLASTS WORRY SOUTH AFRICA ON WESTERN AID OFFER
JOHANNESBURG, Jul. 9, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) major industrialized nations wrapped up their summit in Gleneagles, Scotland this week, amidst media images of bloodstained commuters crying and struggling to get away from the scene of the lethal blasts that occurred in Britain's capital.
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G8 SUMMIT: 'CLIMATE CHAOS' STILL REIGNS, ACTIVISTS SAY
GLASGOW, Jul. 9, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Around 500 activists in Glasgow said goodbye to the G8 Summit with a street party against climate change Friday, rejecting "any market-led techno-fixes to the climate crisis by an unelected global elite".
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ARGENTINA: REMAINS OF THREE 'DISAPPEARED' PLAZA MOTHERS FOUND
BUENOS AIRES, Jul. 8, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team announced Friday that it had identified the remains of three of the founders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who were forcibly disappeared in 1977.
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MEXICO: BESIEGED FOR THREE WEEKS, JOURNALISTS KEEP ON PUBLISHING
MEXICO CITY, Jul. 8, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- In the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where activists say human rights violations and impunity are the norm, 31 employees of a newspaper that has been critical of the local government have been blockaded inside their building for three weeks.
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CORRUPTION: BRAZIL SCANDAL IMPERILS LATIN LEFT, SAY ANALYSTS
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul. 8, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- The shockwaves created by the corruption scandal that erupted a month ago in Brazil's ruling left-wing Workers Party (PT) could provoke irreversible damage to the left in Latin America as a whole, according to some observers.
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SUMMIT: AFRICA IS OFFERED A LITTLE MORE AID - BUT THERE'S A CATCH
GLENEAGLES, Scotland, Jul. 8, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- The G8 leaders offered Africa a little with one hand, but that offer cloaked intent to take back more -- and with many more hands.
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HEALTH-NAMIBIA: SEX WORKERS WANTED BY MANY, BUT CARED FOR BY FEW
WINDHOEK, Jul. 8, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- When Father Herman Klein-Hitpass decries prostitution, it's not about the moral pitfall of sex work that drives him to denounce the 'profession.'
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POLITICS: SECURITY COUNCIL CRITICIZED OVER CHILD SOLDIER POLICIES
UNITED NATIONS, Jul. 8, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Canada is leading a coalition of some 13 Western nations critical of the U.N. Security Council for dragging its feet over a proposed resolution aimed at penalising governments and rebel groups recruiting child soldiers in war zones.
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POLITICS-US: 'WHY DO THEY HATE US?' - A NEW VIEW SURFACES
WASHINGTON, Jul. 8, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Thursday's London bombings that killed more than 50 people have rekindled a familiar debate in this country on the question first posed after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon:
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AFRICA
Jul 13
SOUTH AFRICA: MANDELA AND LAURA BUSH SIDE-BY SIDE AGAINST AIDS
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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: KEEPING MOM ALIVE IS THE BEST AIDS TACTIC
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COTE D'IVOIRE: MEDIATORS PUSH FOR OCTOBER PRESIDENTIAL VOTE
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ASIA
Jul 13
ECONOMY: THAI LEADER SLUMPS IN POLLS AS ECONOMY SWOONS
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HEALTH: INDONESIA GRAPPLES WITH POLIO, AND NEIGHBORS WORRY
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HEALTH: THAI CLINICAL TRIALS MAY HOLD KEY TO A MALARIA CURE
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MIDDLE EAST
Jul 14
ENVIRONMENT-UAE: AN ANCIENT ARAB PERFUME FINDS ITS SCENT IN DANGER
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TRAFFIC: WHILE DRIVING ON IRAQ'S STREETS, WATCH OUT FOR TANKS
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ARTS: A CHRONICLE OF HEARTS AND MINDS, WON OR LOST, IN IRAQ
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G8 SUMMIT: PALESTINIANS GET MONEY AND SOME ADVICE
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LATIN AMERICA
Jul 12
ARGENTINA: CHAGAS DISEASE - SCIENCE PROGRESSES BUT PREVENTION LAGS
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ARGENTINA: NEW OBSERVATORY MEASURES OZONE LAYER
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RIGHTS-VENEZUELA: TOO OFTEN TERROR WEARS A UNIFORM
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CARIBBEAN
Jul 13
TRADE: VENEZUELA OIL DEAL RATTLES CARIBBEAN UNITY A BIT
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US & CANADA
Jul 11
TRADE: U.S. PUBLIC BACKS TOUGH STANDARDS IN CAFTA PACT
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CORRECTION: U.S. SCEPTICISM GROWS ON WINNING 'TERROR WAR'
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POLITICS-CANADA: OLYMPICS SPENDING CUTS INTO SOCIAL SERVICES
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FINANCE: EXPATRIATE REMITTANCES BAIL OUT STRUGGLING BANKS
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EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA
Jul 14
POLITICS: EUROPE STEPS UP SECURITY AFTER LONDON TERROR
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Jul 13
DEVELOPMENT: EU UNVEILS PLAN FOR 'PARTNERSHIP' WITH POOR NATIONS
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FRANCE: DOUBTS GROW OVER BIG INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR PROJECT
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BALKANS: THOUSANDS MARK DECADE SINCE SREBRENICA KILLINGS
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GLOBAL / UNITED NATIONS
Jul 13
CORRECTION*/POLITICS: COUNCIL REFORM HEADING FOR ANOTHER DEAD END
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POLITICS: GOVT'S LAG ON CURBING SMALL ARMS TRADE, STUDY FINDS
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DEVELOPMENT: UN URGED TO UNIFY MILITARY AND HUMANITARIAN MISSIONS
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DEVELOPMENT: RISING GLOBAL POPULATION CALLED A THREAT TO SECURITY
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INDIA / PAKISTAN
Jul 12
NEPAL: REFUGEE CRISIS BUILDS AS CIVIL WAR SHOWS NO SIGN OF ENDING
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INDIA: TSUNAMI OR NOT, DALITS STILL SUFFER DISCRIMINATION
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ART/CULTURE: IN A BREAKTHROUGH, FILM ON GAY ISSUES WINS AN AWARD
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SOUTH ASIA: PAKISTANIS ALARMED BY INDIA-U.S. DEFENSE DEAL
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POLITICS: BURMA'S 'MODERATE' EX-PREMIER ON TRIAL IN BRIBERY CASE
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POLITICS: INDIA MAY PAY A PRICE FOR U.S. BACKING ON COUNCIL SEAT
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