IPS Inter Press Service

Joyce Mulama

NAIROBI - Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to the Qatari foreign investors to produce food for export.

The Second Scramble For Africa Starts

SUDAN: Can Local Investors Beat Foreign Investment?

ETHIOPIA: Can Foreign-Owned Farms Solve Food Crisis?

Mauritians Also Competing For Land in Africa

RUSSIA: Hoping for Much, Expecting Little
Kester Kenn Klomegah
MOSCOW - U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Russia next week is expected to bring significant but limited improvement in troubled relations between the two giants.

RELIGION-BRAZIL: Intolerance Denounced at UN
Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - "Ialorixá" Gilda died of a massive heart attack in 1999 after members of a pentecostal church swarmed into her temple and hit her over the head with a Bible. Her death drew attention to the growing religious intolerance in Brazil, which was denounced this week at the United Nations.

RUSSIA: Hoping for Much, Expecting Little
	U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Russia next week is expected to bring significant but limited improvement in troubled relations between the two giants.

HEALTH: ‘Global Response Needed for Global (Flu) Challenge’

DR-CONGO: U.N.-Backed Troops Abusing Civilians, HRW Says

DEVELOPMENT-KENYA: Fears Over New Land Deal
	Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to the Qatari foreign investors to produce food for export.

AGRICULTURE: Biotechnology: Africa Must Not Be Left Behind

RIGHTS-AFRICA: AU Heeds Perpetrators Not Victims

RIGHTS-INDIA: India's Historic Gay Ruling
	A day after the Delhi High Court's landmark judgment to overturn a colonial law that criminalised homosexuality, Indians expressed mixed reactions to the verdict.

HEALTH: Sri Lanka's Battle With Dengue

IRAN: Picnicking Outside Evin Prison

EUROPE: Croatia on Uncertain Course for EU Membership
	The Swedish government, which now holds the rotating presidency of the European Union for the second half of this year, says plans to bring Croatia into the EU have not been derailed despite recent political events in the country. Croatia is officially set to join the Union as its 28th member in 2011.

RUSSIA: Hoping for Much, Expecting Little

RUSSIA: Chechen Civilians Face Collective Punishment

RELIGION-BRAZIL: Intolerance Denounced at UN
	"Ialorixá" Gilda died of a massive heart attack in 1999 after members of a pentecostal church swarmed into her temple and hit her over the head with a Bible. Her death drew attention to the growing religious intolerance in Brazil, which was denounced this week at the United Nations.

PERU: Petroleum Sullies the Amazon

CUBA-US: Frosty Relations No Bar to Communication

MIDEAST: Future of Fatah in Doubt
	The future of Palestinian unity talks is far more complex than the bitter rivalry, bloodshed and division which represent the yawning chasm separating Palestine's two main political factions, Hamas and Fatah.

MIDEAST: Nobel Laureate 'Abducted' by Israeli Navy

MIDEAST: Finding Fish, But Israelis Too

CUBA-US: Frosty Relations No Bar to Communication
	Cuba and the United States are poised to resume talks on migration issues any time now, although the five Cuban agents imprisoned in the U.S. remain "a formidable obstacle" to normalising bilateral relations, according to Cuban parliament president Ricardo Alarcón.

US-ECUADOR: Chevron Fails in Effort to Lift Trade Benefits

US-AFGHANISTAN: Four Thousand Marines to "Drink Lots of Tea"

PERU: Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
	"Now the fish are going to disappear," said Luis Umpunchi, an Awajún Indian, one of about 20 people gathered around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the northern Peruvian province of Amazonas.