News headlines in September 2011, page 33

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is starting to gain support for a war on corruption that she is quietly waging.

Anyone who discusses international affairs with Americans quickly becomes aware of a fundamental change in syntax without which they find it impossible to converse: the subject of every sentence has to be the United States. If China, India, or Germany, for example, are the focus, the attention of the American interlocutor will waver -unless, perhaps the subject is Israel. When you come across this phenomenon in the Caribbean during hurricane season, it is so pronounced as to seem a caricature, writes Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency.

The bombing of the U.N. building in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, claimed 23 lives and wounded 81 people on Aug. 26. Credit:Chris Ewokor/IPS Security experts say that unless something is done to regulate the high level of illicit transactions and proliferation of commercial explosives in Nigeria, scenes like the United Nations suicide bombing will become more frequent.

'And how do you escape this anxiety, this sensation that nothing we do does any good?' a Mexican journalist wrote on her Facebook page after the murder of two of her colleagues in Mexico City.

Masses of food meant for famine victims in Somalia are being stolen, an investigation has revealed.

It was with some trepidation that Nivvedan, a student at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Bombay, helped launch ‘Saathi’ (Companion), catering to the needs of people with different sexual orientations on campus.

More and more Israelis seem to realise that the only policy that causes bad luck is bad policy. In a fortnight, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu found himself politically besieged from within and from without.

As paddy cultivation revives in Sri Lanka’s former war zones, prospects for the island’s food security have improved dramatically.

With the trial of Hosni Mubarak set to resume Monday, attorneys representing the families of protesters killed during Egypt’s uprising are trying to cut out the deadwood in their midst.

The Fukushima disaster has thrown up the first opportunity in decades to bring justice to thousands of unskilled workers who risk radioactive contamination to keep Japan’s nuclear power plants running.