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Haitian Diaspora Tests Brazil’s International Solidarity
Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 12 (IPS) – Brazil, for decades a source of migrants to the United States…
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Report Exposes “Survival Sex Trade” in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Kanya D’Almeida NEW YORK, Jan 12 (IPS) – Eighteen-year-old “Kettlyne”, a Haitian orphan living in the rubble-strewn Croix Deprez camp…
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Obama Administration Edges Toward Iran Regime Change
Barbara Slavin WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (IPS) – The Barack Obama administration is increasingly giving the impression that it supports a…
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A Second-Term U.N. Chief Says His Convictions Remain the Same
Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jan 11 (IPS) – As Ban Ki-moon launched his second-five-year term as U.N. secretary-general last week,…
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Arab Observer Calls Syria Mission a “Farce”
DOHA, Qatar, Jan 11 (IPS) – A former Arab League observer in Syria has decried the organisation’s monitoring mission to…
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IRAN: Elections Playbook Starts With Crackdown on Critics
Omid Memarian NEW YORK, Jan 10 (IPS) – Less than two months before Iran’s parliamentary elections, as much of the…
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CANADA: U.N. to Probe Missing and Murdered Native Women
Jillian Kestler-D’Amours MONTREAL, Jan 10 (IPS) – As a United Nations committee initiates an inquiry procedure into the alarming number…
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US-CHINA: Leading Think Tank Urges Naval Build-Up in South China Sea
Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (IPS) – While much of the world’s attention has been focused on U.S.-Iranian tensions over…
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British national dies in Regent Park hotel
Phnom Penh (9 Jan, 2012): KRITY ELIZABETH, a British national died of heart attack in Regent Park hotel in Phnom…
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EGYPT: Military Rulers Clamp Down on Civil Society
Cam McGrath CAIRO, Jan 5 (IPS) – Raids on the Cairo offices of civil society organisations accused of receiving unauthorised…
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