News headlines in April 2013, page 22

WASHINGTON, Apr 02 (IPS) - World Bank President Jim Kim has unveiled a series of new institutional goals aimed at ending extreme poverty by 2030 and focusing on the promotion of "shared prosperity" – increasing the incomes of the poorest 40 percent in each country while placing increased focus on dealing with climate change.

BANJUL, Apr 02 (IPS) - When Gambians go to the polls for the country's local government elections on Thursday Apr. 4, they will have fewer candidates to choose from as six of the country's seven opposition parties are boycotting the elections. But one opposition party says it will be fighting political repression here by participating in the elections.  

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 02 (IPS) - The United Nations apparently lacked the online resources of the fast-growing digital age when it created its highly-touted Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2001, with a targeted deadline of 2015.

SANTIAGO, Apr 02 (IPS) - The Chilean government has warned of the potential flight of mining and energy investments to Peru because of court rulings that have paralysed large-scale mining projects in the north of the country. But this fear is unfounded, at least in the short term.

BRUSSELS, Apr 02 (IPS) - Twenty-two-year-old Dario (not his real name) came to Belgium from Brazil in 2005. Just a teenager at the time, he told IPS he "came to escape the economic, social and political conditions in Brazil and to learn another language".

COLOMBO, Apr 02 (IPS) - Soon after the deadly tsunami struck Kesennuma city in the Miyagi Prefecture in Northern Japan on Mar. 11, 2011, 59-year-old Naoko Utsumi found herself on the rooftop of a community centre with only one line of communication to the outside world – the email option on her mobile phone.

GAZA CITY, Apr 02 (IPS) - "We wanted to help foreigners in Gaza, so we created an English map of Gaza City," says Amir Shurrab, one of the minds behind the foldable Gaza Tourist Map.

WASHINGTON, Apr 01 (IPS) - On the eve of its second round of talks with Iran on curbing its nuclear programme in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the so-called P5+1 (U.S., Britain, France, China, and Russia plus Germany) is showing signs of growing disunity, according to the European Union's former top foreign policy official.

TEGUCIGALPA, Apr 01 (IPS) - In slums lining several hillsides in the Honduran capital, mitigation works are under way to protect the neighbourhoods from flooding and landslides, which completely obliterated several areas when Hurricane Mitch hit the country fifteen years ago.