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KOSOVO: Ten Years On, Forensics Continues to ID Missing
By Apostolis Fotiadis
PRISTINA, Nov 19 (IPS) - Pictures of missing people have been hanging for years next to the gate to the fence surrounding Kosovo’s parliament. Some of them have been there for so long that the features of the faces can hardly be seen anymore - a good example of how slow and painful the process of discovering the fate of the missing is.
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ENVIRONMENT: Listen to the Earth, Say Indigenous Peoples
By Valentina Martínez Valdés*
MÉRIDA, Mexico, Nov 19 (IPS/IFEJ) - The idea of wilderness is "an interesting concept; it is a Western concept. Our people have always lived and interacted in the environment," said Illion Merculieff, an environmental activist from the Aleut community in the north-western U.S. state of Alaska.
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Q&A: Impact of Crisis in Latin America Less Severe than in the Past
Darío Montero interviews MARTÍN HOPENHAYN, ECLAC's social development director
GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 19 (IPS) - Thanks to effective social policies and measures that have strengthened the economy, most of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have managed to weather the impact of the global recession, although poverty has risen slightly for the first time since 2002.
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AFGHANISTAN: Black & Veatch's White Elephant in Kabul
By Pratap Chatterjee*
KABUL, Nov 19 (IPS) - 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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SLOVAKIA: Velvet Touch Brings Communists Back
By Pavol Stracansky
BRATISLAVA, Nov 19 (IPS) - As Slovaks mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism this week, former dissidents have lashed out at top political figures, including the prime minister, who they say are trying to paint the totalitarian regime of old in a positive light.
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VIETNAM: Water, Water All Around—Plus All the Risks It Brings
By Helen Clark
HANOI, Nov 19 (IPS) - 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 , Nov 19 (IPS) - Ida Farida, 33, never imagined she would lose the job that she had held for 10 years.
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RIGHTS: Tick the Right Box If You Feel French
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS, Nov 19 (IPS) - The stereotypical image of a French person is of someone wearing a beret and carrying a baguette under his arm. But can one wear a burqa and also be French? Can one prefer pitta bread to baguettes and still be French?
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CORRUPTION: Paying Off Afghanistan's Warlords
By Pratap Chatterjee*
KABUL, Nov 18 (IPS) - 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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HEALTH: Strategy to Cut Vaccine Price Paying Off
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (IPS) - The price of a major combination vaccine called the 'pentavalent' has fallen considerably over the past year, bringing the cost per dose below three dollars - a decrease of almost 50 cents, according to data released Wednesday by an alliance of public and private partners who have worked to bring down vaccine prices in the developing world.
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