News headlines in January 2013, page 4

ATLANTA, Georgia, Jan 28 (IPS) - There is a growing national movement to establish a 28th amendment to the constitution of the United States to address the issue of unlimited corporate spending in elections, although the groups working on the issue diverge on what exactly the amendment should say.

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (IPS) - Nearly 20 of the world's largest creditor countries have announced that they would be cutting nearly half of Myanmar's total foreign debt, worth some six billion dollars.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Jan 28 (IPS) - "That's where I sleep," says Fernando, indicating a puddled area under a bridge. A 62-year-old Portuguese citizen, he has lived in Spain for 15 years, and he is part of the growing number of homeless people in this country wracked by a merciless economic and financial crisis.

BUENOS AIRES, Jan 28 (IPS) - The garbage strewn across many streets and sidewalks in the Argentine capital reflects the inefficiency of a waste collection and treatment system that, paradoxically, has become increasingly costly for the city's residents, say civil society groups and opposition parties.

BERLIN, Jan 28 (IPS) - When my children were born it was a clear commitment: all clothing would have to carry the "organic" seal. It was an expression of a lifestyle, a commitment to the Earth.

Jan 28 (IPS) - Few critical questions have been raised so far by Bangladesh's intellectual community over the deal towards construction of two nuclear power plants in Rooppur, 180km from capital Dhaka.

HARARE, Jan 28 (IPS) - For three weeks Tavonga Kwidini and his wife Maria had no tap water in their home in Glen View, one of the many dry suburbs in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.

ADDIS ABABA, Jan 27 (IPS) - Every single day, 452 women in sub-Saharan Africa die from pregnancy-related causes; that's 18 women every hour.

CAIRO, Jan 27 (IPS) - Hundreds of thousands hit the streets countrywide on and after the second anniversary of Egypt's Tahrir Square uprising Jan. 25 to protest the policies of President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood from which he hails. A chief demand was the abrogation – or modification at least – of Egypt's newly-approved constitution.