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China Wants Peace in Africa

Blain Biset BISHOFTU, Ethiopia, Oct 13 (IPS)  – China could soon expand its involvement in peace and security issues in…

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Reduce Poverty in Africa – Educate a Girl

Blain Biset ADDIS ABABA, Oct 11 (IPS)  – While in the last decade an additional 52 million of sub-Saharan Africa’s…

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U.N. Launches Global Campaign to Abolish Child Marriages

Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Oct 11 (IPS)  – The United Nations has launched a global campaign to abolish an anachronistic…

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High U.S. Corn Prices Spread Global Hunger and Instability

Sarah McHaney WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (IPS)  – Rising corn prices in the United States brought about by biofuel mandates have…

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Buddhists Call for Peace after Riots,

Farid Ahmed DHAKA, Oct 10 (IPS)  – Anxiety has yet to die down over a week after crowds of Muslims…

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Donors Must Seize 2013 Opportunity in Sahel, U.N. Urges

Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Oct 04 (IPS)  – Reporting that the worst of the food crisis in the Sahel region…

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U.S.: Living with Hate in a Free Market of Ideas

Kim-Jenna Jurriaans NEW YORK, Oct 03 (IPS)  – U.S. President Barack Obama’s unequivocal defence of First Amendment protections of blasphemy…

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Q&A: UN Urges Men to Join Call to Action to End Violence against Women

vet González HAVANA, Oct 02 (IPS)  – “We have to expand the sense of urgency and indignation towards gender violence,”…

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Egypt and U.S. Step Past Crisis

Adam Morrow CAIRO, Oct 01 (IPS)  – The wave of unrest in the Middle East caused by blasphemous depictions of…

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U.N. Women Demands End to Impunity for Wartime Rape and Violence

Becky Bergdahl UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS)  – At a high-level event at the United Nations in New York on…

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