News headlines in June 2010, page 7

  1. This Light Is Always Red

    - Inter Press Service

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    A traffic light, yet no traffic at all. In fact, a traffic light...for pedestrians only. And even they move little. There are restrictions on walking out of this village (pop. 3,000).

  2. Produce More Food, Naturally

    - Inter Press Service

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    With the world's population predicted to reach 9 billion by mid-century, the notion that a form of agriculture aimed at producing more from less can put food in everyone's mouth may appear Utopian. Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations' special rapporteur on the right to food, begs to differ. The Belgian professor is a champion of agro-ecology, a science that stresses the need to work with nature, rather than to try and conquer and replace them with technology developed in laboratories.

  3. Doubts Over Zimbabwe Diamonds

    - Inter Press Service

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    Three days of tense deliberations by members of the Kimberley Process have failed to reach consensus on whether diamonds from Zimbabwe's Marange fields should be certified as conflict-free. Zimbabwe has already announced that it intends to resume exports of the precious stones immediately.

  4. DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Selling Scrap Metal to Scrape By

    - Inter Press Service

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    Gugulethu Mkhwananzi is another one of the many unemployed women who have become features of everyday life in Bulawayo’s poor working class suburbs as she moves from house to house, looking for 'rusted gold': scrap metal.

  5. PAKISTAN: Prevalence of Hepatitis Infection Still Alarming

    - Inter Press Service

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    Unable to afford treatment for his disease, Azizur Rehman, 29, has been suffering from hepatitis C for the past one year. 'My elder sister died of the same killer ailment one year ago for lack of treatment,' he laments.

  6. LAOS: Water Headaches Follow Growth of Cities

    - Inter Press Service

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    At 63, Kingkham Duoangsavanh has it made. Now retired after decades of working as a nurse, she lives happily with her grown-up children in a well- appointed home with all the amenities. But up until recently, a constant shortage of water has marred her comfortable existence.

  7. U.S. Congress Approves Strong Unilateral Sanctions on Iran

    - Inter Press Service

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    Escalating Washington's growing confrontation with Iran, both houses of Congress Thursday approved a sweeping unilateral sanctions package designed to pressure Tehran into curbing its nuclear programme.

  8. ZIMBABWE: 'We Too Want to be Wealthy'

    - Inter Press Service

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    Saddled with debts of more than $7 billion, Zimbabwe is anxious to resume diamond exports, suspended in May amidst international condemnation of alleged human rights violations in the Marange diamond fields. But the treatment of people living in the fields themselves suggests the country's record on rights bears further examination.

  9. Not Everyone in Peru Is Winning 'Championship' Against Poverty

    - Inter Press Service

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    The Peruvian government is taking advantage of the broadcasts of the World Cup football games in South Africa to air an ad touting a reduction in the poverty rate from 48 to 34 percent between 2005 and 2009 as an achievement of the administration of President Alan García.

  10. Gulf Spill Could Produce Wealth of Scientific Knowledge

    - Inter Press Service

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    Eventually, the oil spewing from the ruptured well of BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore rig will stop. And some time after that the bulk of the mess will be cleaned up. By then, though, the amount of damage done to the Gulf of Mexico may be catastrophic - but will we know just how catastrophic?

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