News headlines in July 2013, page 21

WASHINGTON, Jul 04 (IPS) - Wednesday's coup d'etat against the elected government of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has placed the administration of President Barack Obama in an uncomfortable position on a number of fronts.

HAVANA, Jul 03 (IPS) - As two separate trials of foreign businessmen continued amid extreme discretion, the Cuban government passed new anti-corruption measures, apparently indicating the Raúl Castro government's desire to avoid loose ends with this thorny problem.

MEXICO CITY, Jul 03 (IPS) - A year after endorsing the principles of the green economy at the Río +20 summit, Latin America is making little progress towards sustainable development models, according to experts.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 03 (IPS) - The Mercosur and Pacific Alliance blocs can strengthen Latin American integration rather than weaken it, analysts say.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 03 (IPS) - Last year, as rebels captured the main towns in Northern Mali, UN Women registered a sudden and dramatic increase of rapes in the first week of the takeover of Gao and Kidal, in places where most women never report this violence to anyone, not even health practitioners.

LILONGWE, Jul 03 (IPS) - Charity Salima, 54, has helped to deliver over 4,000 babies in her maternity clinic in Area 23 – one of Malawi's poorest and most populous townships – and has yet to record a single pregnancy-related death.

WASHINGTON, Jul 03 (IPS) - A prominent human rights organisation based here announced Tuesday that its annual award for 2013 would go to Ragia Omran, an Egyptian lawyer and women's rights activist.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 03 (IPS) - The Brazilian national football team made a glorious comeback with its victory in the FIFA Confederations Cup, but the sport has lost its tight grip on society. While millions celebrated, the tournament was also another source of anger for the protesters that have filled the streets in the last few weeks.

WASHINGTON, Jul 02 (IPS) - A federal judge here on Tuesday struck down a key new regulatory provision that would require large U.S.-listed extractives companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments, a rule that rights groups had long pushed as a way to cut down on corruption in developing countries.

DEHRADUN, India, Jul 02 (IPS) - Over 580 bodies have so far been found. Hundreds more will likely never turn up. Survivors say they are suspended in a kind of nightmare, either haunted by memories of their brush with death or desperate for news of loved ones. At least 3,000 are reported to be missing.