News headlines in January 2012, page 20

  1. US-CHINA: Leading Think Tank Urges Naval Build-Up in South China Sea

    - Inter Press Service

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    While much of the world's attention has been focused on U.S.- Iranian tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, a key think tank is urging Washington to devote more focus and resources on another key hub for international commerce several thousand kilometres to the east.

  2. CANADA: U.N. to Probe Missing and Murdered Native Women

    - Inter Press Service

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    As a United Nations committee initiates an inquiry procedure into the alarming number of missing and murdered Native women across Canada, human rights groups are hoping that an on-the- ground investigation by the international body will finally help stem systematic violence against Native women.

  3. IRAN: Elections Playbook Starts With Crackdown on Critics

    - Inter Press Service

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    Less than two months before Iran's parliamentary elections, as much of the opposition mounts a boycott of the polls, a new wave of arrests and lengthy prison sentences for political activists and journalists appears to herald a renewed crackdown in the Iranian capital.

  4. SOUTH AMERICA: Responsible Tourism at the 'End of the World'

    - Inter Press Service

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    An innovative responsible tourism initiative in the Beagle Channel - a narrow strait linking the Atlantic and Pacific near the southernmost tip of South America - ensures the compatibility of the observation and conservation of unique bird and mammal species.

  5. MIDEAST: Unwilling, Unable, Yet Talking

    - Inter Press Service

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    After a 15-month collapse, Palestinians and Israelis have met only to agree on sitting down face-to-face publicly once more on Friday. So far there is no breakdown, but no breakthrough either.

  6. SRI LANKA: Female Unemployment Rises With Education

    - Inter Press Service

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    Every weekend it has been the same ritual for so many months. Buying the newspaper, going through the classified and the employment sections inch by column inch, marking job offers that could offer a chance, even remotely.

  7. KAZAKHSTAN: Riot Town Has Its Say

    - Inter Press Service

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    Kazakhstan this week canceled, then re-authorised elections in a remote oil town where recent riots stemming from an oil workers strike left at least 16 dead and more than 40 buildings burned.

  8. Brown Revolution Brings New Hope

    - Inter Press Service

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    Picking spots for cattle to graze could reverse desertification and even do its bit to retard climate change, new experiments in Zimbabwe have shown. It’s what is coming to be called the Brown Revolution.

  9. U.S.: A Movement Evolves to Occupy the Future

    - Inter Press Service

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    With its encampments mostly destroyed, the nascent Occupy Movement in thousands of communities across the U.S. and dozens more around the world has not faded away.

  10. IS CHINA STILL A DEVELOPING COUNTRY?

    - Inter Press Service

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    Is China still a developing country or has it joined the ranks of the advanced developed countries? asks Martin Khor, Executive Director of the South Centre in Geneva.

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