News headlines in November 2012, page 4

JUBA, Nov 28 (IPS) - As South Sudan continues negotiations with Sudan regarding the resumption of oil production and transit, the South Sudanese government says that it is developing its own industry and will start producing fuel for domestic consumption within the next eight months in order to avoid continued reliance on its neighbour.

WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (IPS) - After 17 years in litigation, the U.S. government has announced that hundreds of thousands of Native Americans will soon be receiving payments from what has been described as the United States' largest class-action lawsuit, which accused the government of massive mismanagement of trusts covering indigenous peoples' monies and lands.

WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (IPS) - The United States should focus increasingly on courting Brazil, India, Indonesia and Turkey, four "global swing states" critical to the preservation of the Western-dominated international order, according to a new report released here Tuesday by two major U.S. think tanks.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 27 (IPS) - Against the backdrop of an upcoming U.N. Security Council (UNSC) meeting on women, peace and security, a coalition of some 63 international women's groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has decried the absence of women during peace negotiations in post-conflict situations.

WARSAW, Nov 27 (IPS) - New HIV infections among Romanian drug users have grown exponentially over the past couple of years, from three to five cases annually between 2007 and 2009, to 98 just in the first half of 2012.

HERAT, Afghanistan, Nov 27 (IPS) - It appears that Iran has hanged Afghan prisoners on death row despite pending mercy pleas from their relatives.

CAIRO, Nov 27 (IPS) - Three people have been killed, more than 400 wounded and over 200 arrested as clashes between Egyptians protesting President Muhammad Morsi's attempt to expand his presidential powers and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and Egyptian security forces continue to rock the capital and enflame major cities around the country.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov 27 (IPS) - Efforts to promote the use of hydraulic fracturing, a controversial method of obtaining oil and natural gas, face stiff opposition from researchers and citizens who say that in its present form, the technology's risks far outweigh its worth.

DOHA, Nov 27 (IPS) - African negotiators attending the United Nations climate change talks in Doha, Qatar say they are determined to ensure that developed countries do not let the Kyoto Protocol die as its commitment period comes to an end.

LUANDA, Nov 27 (IPS) - "In Luanda there are no matches." This was the first line of a report written by Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel García Márquez in the Angolan capital in 1977.