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ECONOMY-US: Foreclosures Spike as Lenders' Aid Efforts Founder
By Abid Aslam
WASHINGTON, May 14 (IPS) - U.S. banks' property seizures more than doubled in April and home foreclosure filings climbed 65 percent from a year earlier, an indication that government-hyped efforts to protect homeowners are falling short.
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POLITICS-US: New Approach Awaited on Latin America, Cuba
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, May 14 (IPS) - More than 150 years after the United States promulgated the Monroe Doctrine, Washington should recognise that its dominance over the Americas has ended and that it must "engage Latin America on its own terms", according to a new report released here Wednesday by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), one of the nation's most influential think tanks.
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RIGHTS: Women's Groups Push for Gender-Sensitive Budgets
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, May 14 (IPS) - As women's groups and political activists intensify their global campaign for gender empowerment, there is a growing trend towards "gender budgeting" both among developed and developing nations.
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POLITICS: Bogus Claim, al-Maliki Stall U.S. Plan on Iran Arms
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, May 14 (IPS) - Early this month, the George W. Bush administration's plan to create a new crescendo of accusations against Iran for allegedly smuggling arms to Shiite militias in Iraq encountered not just one but two setbacks.
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LATIN AMERICA: European Corporations on Trial
By Milagros Salazar
LIMA, May 14 (IPS) - Twenty European corporations are being tried for human rights violations before an ethical tribunal at the Peoples’ Summit, organised for the third time by the Bi-Regional Network "Enlazando Alternativas" (Linking Alternatives) in Lima. The organisers announced that they hope to take some of these cases to ordinary courts of justice in Peru.
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NICARAGUA: Asylum for Survivors of Attack on FARC Camp
By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA, May 14 (IPS) - The Nicaraguan government of Daniel Ortega granted asylum to two young Colombian women who survived a Mar. 1 bombing raid by the armed forces of their country on a FARC guerrilla camp in Ecuador.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Water "Undervalued and Not Treated With Respect"
By Lawrence Keketso
MASERU, May 14 (IPS) - A two-day conference on water issues in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which opened Wednesday in Maseru, Lesotho, has seen representatives of government, civil society, the private sector, donors and other groups discuss the likely effects of climate change on development in the region.
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THEATRE-US: The Year the War Came Home
By Lucy Komisar*
NEW YORK, May 14 (IPS) - On this 40th anniversary of 1968, the year that for the United States was the apogee of opposition to the war in Vietnam, two new Off Broadway plays explore divergent ways that U.S. citizens protested -- and ponder the best way to contest a senseless war.
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LATIN AMERICA: Food Price Inflation Threatens Children
By Daniela Estrada*
SANTIAGO, May 14 (Tierramérica) - Child malnutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean will be aggravated by global food shortages, even though the region produces much more food than it consumes, say experts and officials.
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MIDEAST: Siege Hits Palestinians Before They Are Born
By Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY, May 14 (IPS) - The Israeli siege of Gaza that has restricted access to food, water and medicine is now beginning to hit unborn children and newborn babies.
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