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CLIMATE CHANGE: Divide Before You Add
Analysis by Sanjay Suri
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - You could almost begin to divide the figures before you add them up. The numbers being advertised by way of aid to the developing world to contain carbon emissions do not quite add up. What is more certain is the division to follow.
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ENVIRONMENT-SPAIN: Improving Garbage Management
By Tito Drago
MADRID - The 60,000 tonnes of rubbish collected daily in Spain, equivalent to 1.3 kilos per person, is being managed by more green-friendly methods of recovery and treatment.
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AFRICA: 'Pick Up Your Money With Your Groceries'
By Paul Virgo
ROME - Of the many proposals on how to combat poverty in Africa, the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is championing what must be one of the simplest - make it cheaper and easier for migrants to send money home.
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RIGHTS-US: Govt Lawyers Seek to Quash Rendition Lawsuit
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - The long road to the proverbial day in court just got longer for five men who claim they were "disappeared" and tortured by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
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US-EUROPE: An Ocean Apart in More Ways Than One
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - As a delegation of European Union leaders descends on Washington Tuesday, a new report argues that "European governments prefer to fetishise transatlantic relations, valuing closeness and harmony as ends in themselves, and seeking influence with Washington through various strategies of seduction or ingratiation".
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Set That 110 Limit
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - Every single person should set a cap of a total of 110 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over the next four decades to avoid irreversible and uncontrollable consequences of climate change, under a new proposal.
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EASTERN EUROPE: Loans Make the Middle Class Poor
By Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - Low-income Eastern Europeans contracting easy consumer loans in the mid- 2000s are now falling below poverty lines.
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GERMANY: New Govt May Neglect Development Aid
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - Concerns have risen with the inauguration of the new government that Germany will cut back on its commitments on international development.
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RIGHTS: Before the Olympics in Brazil…
By Danielle Batist
SWANSEA, U.K. - Athletes competing for Olympic gold speak to the imagination of most of us. Homeless people playing an international football tournament may be a less familiar sight. Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro will get a chance to see both.
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DEVELOPMENT: More Food May Not Mean Less Hunger
By Paul Virgo
ROME - Achieving ambitious Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) production targets to meet growing world demands will not suffice to feed the world, and focusing too much on churning out crops may even be damaging, experts warn.
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BALKANS: Museum Speaks of Roma History, and Misery
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - The Balkans gets its first museum on the Roma, to tell a story about one of the most underprivileged ethnic groups in the region.
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ECONOMY-AFRICA: The "Threat" of an Independent Private Sector
By Francis Kokutse
STOCKHOLM - From Algeria to Zimbabwe, there have been calls to develop the private sector. But some governments regard independent private sectors as a threat to their power and have even actively blocked business. Meanwhile African women have had a particularly raw deal in business. Some Africans question whether the private sector or the state should drive development.
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SWITZERLAND: Muslims Targeted in the Name of Minarets
By Ray Smith
BERN - Switzerland's Muslim community is witnessing a xenophobic campaign by the political right-wing ahead of a vote next month on the banning of Islamic minarets.
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