News headlines in July 2013, page 23

WASHINGTON, Jul 02 (IPS) - President Barack Obama on Monday announced a series of new initiatives to combat spiking levels of international poaching and draft a new national plan on wildlife trafficking, an industry that has grown so significantly in recent years that the president now calls it an "international crisis".

WASHINGTON, Jul 02 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama Monday called for both the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and opposition forces to compromise in the fast-developing political crisis.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 01 (IPS) - Untold thousands dead and thousands more stranded or missing - these are the latest figures from various reports on the devastation caused by flash floods in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

DUBLIN, Ireland, Jul 01 (IPS) - Communications scholars from around the world deplored the global financial crisis and called on their peers to take more active roles in the search for solutions at a recent four-day conference in Dublin, Ireland.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 01 (IPS) - The United Nations has singled out China - the world's most populous country with over 1.3 billion people - as one of the key success stories in the longstanding battle against poverty.

BUENOS AIRES, Jul 01 (IPS) - With its abundant natural resources, productive capacity and rising investment, Latin America looks set to become of the main suppliers to meet the growing, diverse and increasingly sophisticated global demand for food.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jul 01 (IPS) - Four decades after they signed the treaty establishing the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), government leaders are gathering in Trinidad and Tobago, the birthplace of the integration process, as they seek to give greater meaning to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) that encourages the free movement of nationals across the 15-member grouping.

RWAMWANJA REFUGEE CAMP, Uganda, Jul 01 (IPS) - If you were forced to flee your home to survive, what would you take? What could you take? Jean Claude "Van Damme" Ndongizimana, 20, escaped from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo with just the bag in which he kept his profits from selling milk and the clothes on his back.

ALFAZ, Spain, Jul 01 (IPS) - The atrocious Second World War left behind lasting damage by lowering our standards for what is marginally acceptable.

TEHRAN, Jul 01 (IPS) - The victory of Hassan Rouhani in Iran's Jun. 14 election marked a significant shift in Iranian politics, occasioned by the forceful return of the two most important political factions of the Islamic Republic – traditional conservatives and reformists.