News headlines in July 2013, page 6

MEXICO CITY, Jul 24 (IPS) - Nutritionists are promoting an 11th commandment in Mexico: "Thou shalt not eat meat… at least one day a week."

WARSAW, Jul 24 (IPS) - Since Jun. 3, inhabitants of the village Zurawlow in Grabowiec district in southeastern Poland have been occupying a field in their locality where the U.S. company Chevron plans to drill for shale gas. The farmers' resistance is just the latest blow to shale gas proponents in the country.

HARARE, Jul 24 (IPS) - Gibson Muzungu's hope for a free and fair election on Jul. 31 has faded after local Zimbabwe Africa National Union-Patriotic Front party officials seized his identity card, apparently to check if he was a registered voter.

WASHINGTON, Jul 23 (IPS) - As a mass hunger strike in the California prison system enters its third week, advocacy groups are warning that prison officials attempting to break the strike are breaching international human rights standards.

WASHINGTON, Jul 23 (IPS) - There is a real opportunity for peacemaking between Israel and the Palestinians, even though the obstacles are more formidable than in the past. That was the assessment of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, speaking Monday at a public event which posed the question "Can the Two-State Solution Be Saved?"

HARARE, Jul 23 (IPS) - Moses Chiengerere is one of the Zimbabwe's hundreds of thousands of smallholder maize farmers keeping this southern African nation's granaries stocked with the grain.

KAMPALA, Jul 23 (IPS) - It is 10.26 am in Kampala and a Ugandan woman is airing her gripe about the opposite sex on the airwaves.

WASHINGTON, Jul 23 (IPS) - The successful campaign of Iran's President-elect Hassan Rouhani may have been built on the persistence of hope among Iranian voters for a better future.

HAVANA, Jul 23 (IPS) - "The basic objective of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is people's welfare, and I think that in this we have many affinities with what the Cuban government wants," Regula Bäbler told IPS.

ROME, Jul 23 (IPS) - "It was midnight and I was sleeping; I woke up to the noise of the police breaking down the entrance door of the school," says Italian journalist Lorenzo Guadagnucci. "They came in running and screaming. The bashing was immediate, with no chance of mediation."