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DEVELOPMENT-ETHIOPIA: Understanding Poverty's Impact on Children
By Sisay Abebe
ADDIS ABABA - When the school bell rings, Alemtsehay and her three younger sisters rush home to change out of their school uniforms and into tattered clothes to go out begging around Bole Road, one of Addis Ababa's smarter areas.
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THAILAND: Court Tells PM to Step Down for Playing TV Chef
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - A passion for Thai cooking provied to be Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's undoing. A court ruled Tuesday that he had broken the law by appearing for payment on a widely televised cooking programme after becoming the leader of the country this year.
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CUBA: "Ike" Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Danger
By Dalia Acosta
HAVANA - Even before the ravages caused by Hurricane Gustav in the western part of Cuba have been fully assessed, Hurricane Ike made landfall on the northeastern shore of the island on Sunday, swept westwards out to sea on Monday, and is showing signs of powering up before slamming Cuban territory again.
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TRADE-KENYA: A Woman Navigating the Obstacles to the ‘Big Money’
By Rosalia Omungo
NAIROBI - ‘‘I enjoy the trade,’’ says Sonia Gateri as she ushers me into her office next to the Yaya Centre in the Kenyan capital. It is a hot afternoon and she has been busy most of the morning, preparing for a trip to Tanzania later in the evening.
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ECONOMY: Increased Nuclear Energy Demand Boosts Namibia
By Brigitte Weidlich
WINDHOEK - The worldwide scramble for energy sources due to dwindling fossil fuel reserves has placed renewed emphasis on nuclear energy as solution for future needs. As a result, Namibia in south-western Africa is experiencing a uranium boom.
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SRI LANKA: Troops Surround Rebel Hq - NGOs Ordered Out
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - Saying it was keen to avoid a repeat of the August 2006 massacre of 17 local workers of a French aid agency, the government has ordered all non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to leave the Tamil separatist stronghold of northern Vanni, now under military siege.
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LAOS: Questions Rise With Worst Floods in Decades
By Ounkeo Souksavanh*
VIENTIANE - When local people in Laos talk about floods, they always look back to 1966 -- the year the Mekong River burst its banks so fast that no one was prepared.
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PAKISTAN: Zardari - Victim of Many Prejudices
Analysis by Beena Sarwar
KARACHI - After sweeping Pakistan's presidential elections, Asif Ali Zardari, husband of the late, twice-elected prime minister Benazir Bhutto, called his triumph the ‘’victory of democracy’’. But this triumph follows a flood of criticism against Zardari in the domestic and foreign media.
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RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: Khmer Rouge Trials Bare Sexual Abuse
By Andrew Nette
PHNOM PENH - In a move that could break the silence around sexual violence under the Khmer Rouge, a 68 year-old transgender woman has became the first person to submit a complaint about gender-related abuse to the international tribunal during the group’s brief but bloody reign.
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INDIA/US: Nuclear Waiver - Blow to Non-Proliferation
Analysis by Praful Bidwai*
NEW DELHI - The special waiver granted to India by the Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG) from its nuclear trade rules is being seen as a massive setback to the cause of global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.
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ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Click Here to Plant a Tree
By Mario Osava*
RIO DE JANEIRO - It has become fashionable in Latin America to pursue initiatives towards "zero carbon", neutralising the climate-changing greenhouse gases produced by industry, commercial aviation and even the football World Cup -- and along with it, atoning for the environmental sins of polluters.
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AGRICULTURE-MALAWI: Going Against the Grain on Subsidies
By Busani Bafana
LILONGWE - In each of the past three growing seasons, the family of Bernadette Banda, in Chidambo village in the central region of Malawi, has doubled the maize harvest from the family plot, thanks to a government input subsidy programme.
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COLOMBIA: Oil Palms, Right Abuses Hand in Hand in Northwest
By Constanza Vieira
BOGOTA, - As of this week, there is one less human rights defender in the northwestern Colombian region of Bajo Atrato. Jimmy Jansasoy of the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission was forced to flee the area, where oil palm plantations have encroached on the collectively-owned jungle territories of traditional black communities.
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PARAGUAY-BRAZIL: Lugo to Seek New Terms for Itaipú Dam
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - Paraguay’s new government wants to increase ninefold the revenues the country takes in from the sale of its share of the energy generated by the Itaipú hydroelectric dam, which it runs jointly with Brazil.
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DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Why The Richest Continent Is Also The Poorest
By Miriam Mannak
ACCRA - The ecological impact of natural resource exploitation on the lives of the poor in Africa and other regions is not being addressed sufficiently in aid effectiveness and development discussions, aid experts say.
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Q&A;: 'Our Voices Have Been Heard'
Interview with Letty Chiwara, UNIFEM Cross Regional Programmes Manager
ACCRA - As the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness draws to a close in the Ghanaian capital, gender activists are reflecting on the way ahead.
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LATIN AMERICA: Food Price Hikes Hit Poor Hard - ECLAC
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - The countries of Latin America have coped relatively well so far with the rising global food and fuel prices. But the main challenge they face is to focus more attention on the plight of the poor, experts said at a seminar being held in the Chilean capital.
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DEVELOPMENT-ETHIOPIA: Understanding Poverty's Impact on Children
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CUBA: "Ike" Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Danger
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