News headlines in May 2010, page 34

When the last review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ended inconclusively - after four long weeks of protracted negotiations - the meeting was described as having accomplished 'very little' with no substantive agreement.

Strikes and demonstrations against the Bolivian government's wage policy have marked the end of a honeymoon period between workers and leftwing President Evo Morales.

With a warning by its members that it will not be a 'decorative' body dedicated to merely 'collecting stories about what happened,' the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up in Honduras to investigate events surrounding the June 2009 coup that overthrew the government of Manuel Zelaya began to operate Tuesday.

'I sometimes drink alcohol because it makes things funny,' said 15-year-old Senelo* giggles shyly. 'I go to unlicensed taverns. They sell alcohol without asking questions.'

The decriminalisation of abortion has been dropped from a Brazilian government human rights action plan, a move that observers attribute to the need of the ruling Workers Party to negotiate support from right-wing parties to ensure the passage of bills in Congress.

Proximity peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, due to begin shortly after months of delay due to Israel’s continued settlement building on occupied Palestinian land, appear to have little chance of making a breakthrough.

Imran Ali, 23, has no reason to complain. His monthly take home pay of 8,600 Pakistan rupees (about 102 U.S. dollars) as a government employee allows him to augment his family’s meagre income.

Beekeepers in the small South American country of Uruguay are facing climate change and a complex web of problems that threaten their livelihoods.

The disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has given increased urgency to the fifth Global Oceans Conference taking place here at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).

The central Indian remote jungles of Chhattisgarh and the urban technology- savvy node of Bangalore are now linked by a mobile phone-based information system, a first in the world, called CG Net Swara.