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No Celebration for Mothers of the Missing in Mexico
By Daniela Pastrana
MEXICO CITY - Emma Veleta and Toribio Muñoz were married 40 years ago and had seven children, four boys and three girls. They lived in the town of Anáhuac, 100 km from the capital of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. But on Jun. 19, 2011, as they were celebrating Father’s Day, tragedy struck.
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Tangled Web of Corruption Debilitates Mexico
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Although Mexico has signed several multilateral anti-corruption agreements, so far these instruments have yielded few concrete results in combating the rampant bribery, extortion and embezzlement, according to experts.
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Journalism is Not ‘More Fun’ in the Philippines
By Dennis Engbarth
MANILA - Reporters working in the Philippines, the world’s third most dangerous nation for journalists, are having difficulty identifying with the "It’s More Fun in the Philippines" tourism promotion campaign launched by the Liberal Party-led government of President Benigno Aquino III.
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Mubarak Still Has His Billions
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - More than a year since president Hosni Mubarak was removed from power, the money he allegedly syphoned from Egypt during his 29-year rule remains beyond the reach of authorities attempting to recover it.
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U.S. Corporations Sponsor Carbon Scam in Europe**
By Stefano Valentino *
BRUSSELS - Major publicly traded U.S. corporations, including Dow Chemical, ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Cabot Corporation, have secured multi-million-dollar dubious carbon credits to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, as revealed in this investigative report.
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Chinese Miners Dig Deep for Death
By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
BEIJING - China is notorious for containing some of the world’s deadliest mines - a reputation that has been corroborated in recent months by a series of fatal accidents. China is the world’s largest consumer and producer of coal. But the mining industry is beset by illegal operations, dangerous working conditions, local corruption and cover-ups of fatalities.
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Pakistan PM Found Guilty in Contempt Case
By Correspondents *
DOHA - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has been convicted by the country's Supreme Court of having committed contempt of court in a case that could see him expelled from office.
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Not for a Woman in Amman
By Mya Guarnieri
AMMAN, Jordan - Two young women in brightly coloured hijabs and tight jeans stand on the edge of a freeway as cars whiz by. They watch the traffic, heavy in Amman where car ownership is skyrocketing by 10-15 percent a year. When there’s a break in the steady flow of vehicles, the women hold hands and race across the road.
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After Ten Years of Peace, "Angola’s Future is Dark"
By Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Angola is celebrating 10 years of peace on Apr. 4. Since the end of its 27-year- long civil war in 2002, the country’s economy has prospered thanks to oil. But experts fear that parliamentary elections later this year could return the country to violence and instability.
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Malaysian Socialists on Bumpy Road to Revival
By Baradan Kuppusamy
KUALA LUMPUR - As Prime Minister Najib Razak prepares to dissolve parliament for snap polls, Malaysia’s socialists are seeing an opportunity to make a comeback after nearly five decades in the political wilderness.
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Mubarak Cronies Find Comfort in Exile
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - Wanted members of the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak remain at large more than a year since he was ousted, and their illicit wealth lies safely beyond the reach of prosecutors.
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Regional Leaders Give Mali Junta Three Days to Step Down
By Soumaila T. Diarra
BAMAKO - West African heads of state meeting in Côte d'Ivoire have given Mali's military junta three days to restore constitutional order and step down – or face a range of diplomatic and economic sanctions.
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Malaysia Weighs Minimum Wage Policy
By Baradan Kuppusamy
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia plans to introduce a national minimum wage for its workers against stiff opposition from employers and manufacturers who warn that such a policy would shut down nearly 200,000 small and medium enterprise (SME) units.
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Treat Illegal Logging Like Organised Crime, Urges World Bank
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - With illegal loggers clearing the equivalent of a football field of the world's most valuable forests every two seconds, local and international law enforcement systems should target the criminal operations that profit most from the trade, according to a new report released here Tuesday by the World Bank.
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More Transparent Forest Governance in Peruvian Amazon
By Milagros Salazar *
LIMA - In Peru, where over half of the national territory is covered by forests and the logging industry is marred by corruption, transparency and good forest management are closely linked.
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Corruption depletes national wealth and undercuts legitimacy. Transparency International says corruption is often to blame for already limited public resources being diverted to uneconomic high-profile projects, at the expense of less spectacular but more necessary development initiatives. Civil society is finding its voice to demand that those behind corrupt acts are held accountable.