News headlines in June 2013, page 23

NEW DELHI, Jun 05 (IPS) - The global economy is awash with successive waves of liquidity generated over the past few years by the four most advanced economies, viz., the United States, the European Union, (EU), Japan and the United Kingdom, known as the G4. This liquidity has taken the form of "quantitative easing" (QE).

VENICE, Jun 05 (IPS) - On the quay leading to the Arsenale exhibition complex, a block of ice melts in a rare blast of spring warmth. Elsewhere in the city, coconuts were bob on the choppy waters of the canals during the opening week of the 55th Venice Biennale.

OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM, Jun 05 (IPS) - Majda el-Batsch was eight years old in June 1967 when she heard about the war that year. "I didn't know what war meant," she recalled. More than four decades later, the Palestinian reporter is still grappling with the meaning of what is known as the Six-Day War.

MAPUTO, Jun 05 (IPS) - Lined up along the streets of central Maputo, Mozambique's capital city, are expensive, European-style bars and restaurants with sophisticated names like Café Continental, Nautilus, 1908 and Mundos.

ADDIS ABABA, Jun 05 (IPS) - Ethiopia's long-term hydropower strategy is proving to be both a source of economic sustenance and contention. In becoming Africa's leading power exporter through the construction of a series of dams across the country, Ethiopia could threaten the lives of millions who depend on the Nile River's waters.

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 04 (IPS) - The 193-member U.N. General Assembly (UNGA), in its supreme wisdom, has declared over 100 commemorative "days" dedicated to peacekeepers, refugees, children, migrants, girl children, rural women and indigenous people, among others.

WASHINGTON, Jun 04 (IPS) - The U.S. government announced Tuesday that it would be going forward with long-discussed plans to auction federal leases off the Atlantic Ocean coast for the development of offshore wind energy.

RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, Jun 04 (IPS) - Hazem Maher, 16, from Hebron in the southern West Bank, works a backbreaking 12-hour day in the fruit and vegetable market in the city of El Bireh, next to Ramallah. He earns just over 15 dollars a day as a porter.

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 04 (IPS) - For years, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China's arid northwest has been the setting of clashes with the central government and ethnic violence between Muslim Uyghurs and Han Chinese.

HAVANA, Jun 04 (IPS) - Many lesbians and gays in Cuba find different ways of achieving their dream of becoming mothers and fathers and forming families. But this is complicated in a country where neither civil unions nor adoption by non-heterosexual persons are legally recognised.