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COLOMBIA-U.S.
Trade Deal "Throws Country into Jaws of Multinationals," Critics Say
By Helda Martínez*
BOGOTÁ - The entry into force of Colombia’s free trade agreement with the United States was met by student protests and opposition from a segment of the business community, small farmers, and trade unionists.
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Public Funds Could Help Provide Water and Electricity, Researchers Say
By Johanna Treblin
UNITED NATIONS - For several decades, governments around the globe have turned to privatisation as the best option to help relieve the world's destitute by providing them with health care services, water and electricity. By and large, however, this effort has failed.
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GEORGIA
Tbilisi Walks Diplomatic High Wire on Iranian Nuclear Issue
By Giorgi Lomsadze*
TBILISI - Georgia is clearly the closest U.S. ally in the South Caucasus, moving in lockstep with American interests on just about every foreign policy issue – except one: Iran.
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Despite Economic Growth, Food Insecurity Lingers in Africa
By Brian Ngugi
NAIROBI - Everlyne Wanjiku, a single mother of five, has earned a living selling vegetables in the sprawling Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, for over three decades. And even though her earnings were meagre, she was able to provide all her children with a tertiary education.
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Less Politics, More Economic Development
Miriam Gathigah interviews MICHAEL SUDARKASA, chief executive officer of the African Business Group.
NAIROBI - Economic and social growth have become the heart of the development agenda of the bloc of leading emerging economies known as IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) since it began focusing less on politics.
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U.S. Arms Sale Sends Wrong Signal to Bahrain, Groups Say
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is sending the wrong signal to the government of Bahrain in proceeding with a partial sale of new arms to Manama, according to human rights activists and some lawmakers here.
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"We Are Living As If We Had One and a Half Planets"
By Isolda Agazzi
GENEVA - The new WWF Living Planet Report warns of a significant decline in biodiversity, particularly in low-income countries, and a huge increase in the ecological footprint of high-income countries.
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Guatemalan Coffee Growers Get Creative
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - Overwhelmed by climate change, worried about speculation in international prices and still hurting from the effects of the crisis in 2000, coffee growers in Guatemala are trying in various ways to recover the production levels they achieved 12 years ago.
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Financial Middlemen Muddle Climate Commitments
By Sabina Zaccaro
ROME - The European Union has been using all means necessary to fill the multi- billion-euro fund for climate change, including the controversial mobilisation of public resources through private financial intermediaries.
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Round One to Radical Left, Round Two to Europe?
Analysis by Apostolis Fotiadis
ATHENS - Kosmas Bitros (29) didn’t "believe in politics and in elections as a way of changing society". Still, he showed up at the ballot boxes for the first time last Sunday to cast a vote against austerity in the Greek national elections.
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Recovering From the Spring, at a Price
By Mona Alami
AMMAN - The Arab Spring sent scores of sick and injured Libyans, fleeing their war- torn country, straight to Jordan, where the influx of patients is putting a lot of pressure on Jordanian hospitals and disrupting the lives of Libyan and Jordanian patients alike.
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Unresolved Ethnic Issues Threaten Myanmar Reforms
By Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON - Discussion of economic reforms in Myanmar (Burma) should not overshadow the critical need for a political solution to the longstanding grievances of the country's ethnic minorities, observers in Washington warned on Friday.
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Spain’s "Indignados" Take to the Streets Again
By Inés Benítez
MÁLAGA, Spain - A filthy vacant lot is now sprouting strawberries, tomatoes and carrots. This small community garden in the centre of the southern Spanish city of Málaga was created by the "Indignados" protest movement, which is celebrating its first anniversary Saturday by taking to the streets across the country.
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Chile’s Native Communities Find Ally in Supreme Court
By Marianela Jarroud
SANTIAGO - Indigenous groups in Chile celebrated a recent court ruling that represented the latest victory in the struggle for respect for their right to be previously consulted about major projects which directly affect their communities.
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Shedding Light on Inequality in World’s Most Unequal Region
By Marianela Jarroud
SANTIAGO - A new report takes a close look at the territorial distribution of poverty and inequality in Latin America, which has long had a reputation of being the most unequal region in the world.
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