News headlines in March 2010, page 13

Earnestness is still on her sunburnt face as she faces throngs of people just days after her defeat. Indeed, even as threats continue to come her way, Mai Jori has not given up on her dreams to help empower the women from her region and vows to contest the forthcoming local bodies’ elections.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered reassurance Monday to the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee that the Barack Obama administration's 'commitment to Israel's security and Israel's future is rock solid,' while echoing the words of warning issued by Gen. David Petraeus and Vice-President Joe Biden.

At the United Nations, 'water and sanitation' have remained inseparable twins on the world body's social and economic agenda.

When there are water cuts in Bulawayo the plants in 59-year-old Ntombizodwa Makati’s vegetable garden are still watered, but she and her family go thirsty.

The full-page newspaper advertisements touting the benefits of a controversial aluminium smelter plant appeared here just as the court of appeal is preparing to rule on whether such a facility is ever built in Trinidad and Tobago.

Two men who married each other in a traditional engagement ceremony will have to undergo trial and face years of imprisonment if found guilty of having a homosexual relationship.

A United Nations report published ahead of the Fifth World Urban Forum in Brazil says the proportion of the population of this country living in 'favelas' or shantytowns was reduced 16 percent between 2000 and 2010.

On a rainy morning here Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasised the centrality to U.S. foreign policy of addressing the world's water challenges.

When the Jan. 12 earthquake struck this mountainous country, in less than a minute, it transformed it from one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere to the largest construction site this side of the Atlantic.

Stepped-up efforts against drug trafficking in Colombia and Mexico are increasingly driving drug mafias into Central America, where drug-related corruption and violence are on the rise.