Fw: Flood-Ridden Pakistan Ineligible For Emergency Debt Relief

--- On Tue, 9/7/10, IPS - Weekly <newsletter@ipsnews.net> wrote: From: IPS - Weekly <newsletter@ipsnews.net> Subject: Flood-Ridden Pakistan Ineligible For Emergency Debt Relief To: evansmachera@yahoo.com Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 12:11 PM    2010/9/7   ANGOLA: More Mothers Survive Childbirth and Poverty Slowly Reduces Louise Redvers LUANDA, Sep 7 - As darkness falls on a cool evening in Luanda, a group of women sit huddled under threadbare blankets outside one of the city's few maternity hospitals. "I have to be here," Paula Silva, 45, said, shivering slightly. MORE >> ENVIRONMENT: South Still Battling to Stop North's Biopiracy Hilaire Avril PARIS, Sep 7 - The United Nations declared 2010 the Year of Biodiversity. But 17 years after the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the issue of biopiracy is still pitching North against South. MORE >> PAKISTAN: Floods Leave Afghan Refugees Down and Out Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 7 - When they are not looking forlornly over what used to be their homes or trying to find help for relatives who have fallen ill, many Afghan refugees chase after vehicles that pass through the Great Trunk Road connecting Peshawar to Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. MORE >> Poor Thirst as Nile Taps Run Dry Cam McGrath* - IPS/IFEJ CAIRO, Sep 6 - The midday sun punishes a group of veiled women as they wait in line to fill their buckets and jerrycans. They have travelled on foot to a rusty tap on the outskirts of Cairo that gushes irrigation water never intended for human consumption. MORE >> MIDEAST: The Lights Are Going Out on Gaza Mohammed Omer GAZA CITY, Sep 5 - The Muslim festival Eid approaches, but not the end to power cuts that have darkened the month-long Ramadan fasting leading up to the festival. Or to the agony of Gazans, made worse by the reminder that it's approaching festive time. MORE >> Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill's 30-Year Legacy Matthew Berger WASHINGTON, Sep 3 - A surprisingly small number of scientists have studied the impacts of the oil spill resulting from the 1979 blowout at the Ixtoc I oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Wes Tunnell, who first studied the spill's effects in July and August of 1980 and has returned many times since, is one of the few exceptions. MORE >> CHINA: Bigger Bite Needed into Appetite for Shark Fin Soup Mitch Moxley BEIJING, Sep 3 - Campaigns featuring some of China's biggest celebrities, including basketball star Yao Ming and actor Jackie Chan, have persuaded some Chinese to think twice about eating shark fin soup. But changing attitudes about the centuries-old delicacy, a large contributor to decimated shark populations, continues to be a challenge. MORE >> Revolution in African Agriculture Gathering Momentum Busani Bafana* ACCRA, Sep 2 - As one major meeting on agriculture ends, another begins: farming is truly back on Africa's agenda. MORE >> Flood-Ridden Pakistan Ineligible For Emergency Debt Relief Matthew Berger WASHINGTON, Sep 2 - A loan deal between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and flood-stricken Pakistan announced Thursday has drawn the ire of several NGOs that claim the deal represents an "inadequate" and "cynical" response to the disaster that is estimated to have affected the lives of millions. MORE >> Tamaulipas, Mexico's Black Hole Daniela Pastrana MEXICO CITY, Sep 2 - Tamaulipas state has become the black hole of organised crime in Mexico. But there are few accounts of the rapid social breakdown that the northeastern border state has experienced since the start of the year, because the local press is silenced. MORE >> ARGENTINA-BRAZIL: Nuclear Safeguards System an Example for the World Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Sep 2 - A system of mutual safeguards, created nearly two decades ago by Argentina and Brazil for in-situ verification of the peaceful use of nuclear power in both countries, serves as an international model of transparency and confidence building in this highly sensitive field. MORE >> ADVERTISEMENT  Read more IPS News here. Copyright © 2010 IPS - Inter Press Service -- All rights reserved.   Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Confirm | Forward

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