CLIMATE CHANGE: Divide Before You Add Analysis by Sanjay SuriST. 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. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-SPAIN: Improving Garbage Management By Tito DragoMADRID - 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. MORE >>
AFRICA: 'Pick Up Your Money With Your Groceries' By Paul VirgoROME - 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. MORE >>
RIGHTS-US: Govt Lawyers Seek to Quash Rendition Lawsuit By William FisherNEW 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. MORE >>
US-EUROPE: An Ocean Apart in More Ways Than One By Matthew BergerWASHINGTON - 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". MORE >>
CLIMATE CHANGE: Set That 110 Limit By Julio GodoyBERLIN - 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. MORE >>
EASTERN EUROPE: Loans Make the Middle Class Poor By Claudia CiobanuBUCHAREST - Low-income Eastern Europeans contracting easy consumer loans in the mid- 2000s are now falling below poverty lines. MORE >>
GERMANY: New Govt May Neglect Development Aid By Julio GodoyBERLIN - Concerns have risen with the inauguration of the new government that Germany will cut back on its commitments on international development. MORE >>
RIGHTS: Before the Olympics in Brazil… By Danielle BatistSWANSEA, 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. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: More Food May Not Mean Less Hunger By Paul VirgoROME - 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. MORE >>
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