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U.S.: Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess
POLITICS: Iran Began Preparing for U.S. Bombing in 2002
POLITICS: Big Breakthroughs May Elude Obama's Asia Trip
MIDEAST: Lessons from the Karine A -Déjà Vu All Over Again
POLITICS: On Nuke Disarmament, It's Still "You First"
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SRI LANKA: Colombo’s Diplomatic Sparring Games with EU, U.S.
SRI LANKA: 25 Years On, Women Still Struggle for Their Rights
SRI LANKA: Mixed Reactions to EU Threat to Cut Trade Concessions
SRI LANKA: U.S. Govt Report Adds to Pressure for War Crimes Probe
SRI LANKA: Newly Reopened IMF Office Launches Budget Probe
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Trading Up
By Catherine Ashton
CUBA: OBAMA EXTINGUISHES THE HOPES HE RAISED
By Leonardo Padura Fuentes
NEOLIBERALISM: A SURVIVOR BY DEFAULT
By Walden Bello
HUMAN EXISTENCE IS AT REAL AND IMMINENT RISK
By Maurice Strong
BRAZIL: SHOWING THE WORLD HOW TO END HUNGER
By Andrew MacMillan
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Q&A: "Karzai Assigned a Rabbit to Take Care of the Carrot"
Chris Arsenault interviews MALALAI JOYA, author and Afghan parliamentarian
VANCOUVER, Canada - In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United States and its allies are wondering what to do about Afghanistan.
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RIGHTS-LAOS: How Women Cope With Disability - Part 1
By Melody Kemp
VIENTIANE - Before 2002, Chanhpheng Sivila held training workshops for the many Lao disabled women and men at her own house.
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CAMBODIA: Once ‘Extinct’ Crocodile Claws Its Way Back to Survival
By Robert Carmichael
PHNOM PENH - Siamese crocodiles once ranged far and wide across South-east Asia, from Indonesia to Vietnam, Laos to Thailand. But habitat loss and poaching virtually wiped out the three-metre long animals. Twenty years ago they were classified as effectively extinct in the wild.
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Q&A: Maternal Mortality Rates ‘One of the Saddest Cases’ in Asia
Marwaan Macan-Markar interviews NOELEEN HEYZER, U.N. under-secretary general and head of UNESCAP
BANGKOK - Nearly 15 years after a landmark international conference to advance the rights and freedoms of women, the picture in the Asia-Pacific region is mixed, says a leading women’s rights advocate and senior United Nations official.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-THAILAND: Bangkok: A Future Filled with Floods
By Ron Corben
BANGKOK - Thailand’s capital, dubbed the ‘City of Angels’ and the ‘Venice of the East’, is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine.
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AFGHANISTAN: Black & Veatch's White Elephant in Kabul
By Pratap Chatterjee*
KABUL - In a secluded valley a few miles from Kabul's international airport, Caterpillar turbines custom-built in Germany and giant transformers flown in from Mexico hum away at a brand-new power plant.
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VIETNAM: Water, Water All Around—Plus All the Risks It Brings
By Helen Clark
HANOI - As Vietnam’s big cities are increasingly deluged by floods, the infrastructure cannot keep up.
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LABOR-INDONESIA: Future Looks Bleak for Laid-Off Workers
By Hera Diani
WEST JAVA, Indonesia - Ida Farida, 33, never imagined she would lose the job that she had held for 10 years.
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CORRUPTION: Paying Off Afghanistan's Warlords
By Pratap Chatterjee*
KABUL - Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a two-day trek across the Hindu Kush down to Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.
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INDIA: A Famed Region’s Triple Whammy of Environmental Bane
By Athar Parvaiz
LADAKH, India - The combined impact of tourism, climate change and changing lifestyle in this internationally renowned adventure haven has raised serious concerns among environmental groups.
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SRI LANKA: Plans to Release Tamils ‘Nothing But a Political Ploy’
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - By January 2010 they will be returning to their homes in war-torn areas.
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Q&A: "What is Important is to Give Equal Opportunity" - Part 2
Stephen de Tarczynski interviews scientist Lourdes J. Cruz, winner of the 2010 UNESCO-L'Oréal Award
MANILA - Although women have long made major contributions to science, their efforts have often been overlooked. For the past 12 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has teamed up with cosmetics giant L'Oréal to highlight the achievements of female scientists.
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GENDER: Women in Science Face Discrimination in India - Part 1
By K.S. Harikrishnan
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Just 10 of the 443 Indian scientists who received the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) award in the last 50 years were women.
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IPS News Agency in its contribution to help strengthen the media in Afghanistan as a central pillar of independent civil society, has entered into a South-South agreement with Pajhwok Afghan News to broadcast special coverage of the country.
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