News headlines in November 2013, page 7

CAÑO DE UÑA, Amazonas, Venezuela, Nov 19 (IPS) - "All of the countries of the Amazon basin say they want to protect the environment, but they all have agreements with transnational corporations for the construction of roads or for mining and exploitation of forests," Curripaco indigenous leader Gregorio Díaz Mirabal, from the south of Venezuela, told Tierramérica.*

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 19 (IPS) - Mustafa Khan, who sells cigarettes by the roadside in a Pakistani village, has a simple reason for sending two of his sons to a madrassa, an Islamic seminary, and not to a proper school. "We cannot afford it," he says.

SANTIAGO, Nov 19 (IPS) - Hugo Hurtado, 47, is a chef. Anyone would say that in his country, Chile, the Latin American "tiger", his profession would be synonymous with success and even fame. But unfortunately that's not true.

WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (IPS) - Two pillars of the U.S. foreign policy establishment urged Congress Monday to forgo any new sanctions legislation directed against Iran, warning that it will risk "undermining or even shutting down" ongoing negotiations over Tehran's nuclear programme.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 18 (IPS) - On May 23, shortly after wrapping up negotiations on the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) 93- million-dollar loan - its second in three years - to keep Jamaica out of default, the fund's mission chief in the country, Jan Kees Martijn, set out to visit Croydon, a former plantation settlement in the mountainous northwest of the island.

Nov 18 (IPS) - Even as Washington has mounted a strikingly robust response to the humanitarian crisis in the Philippines, the ongoing effort is highlighting important gaps in the United States' emergency relief capability – gaps that could start to be addressed through legislative reforms currently under debate in the U.S. Congress.

WARSAW, Nov 18 (IPS) - Small farmers could play an important part in making Haiti – where just two percent of trees are still standing – green again.

TRIPOLI, Nov 18 (IPS) - Car accident in Omar Mokhtar Avenue in downtown Tripoli. Nobody was injured but there's a bumper hanging off the back of a car. In just a few seconds, a group gathers around.

NAPLES, Nov 18 (IPS) - Before one reaches the premises of the Società Recupero Imballaggi (SRI), the smell in the air announces that this company in the southern Italian region of Campania deals with waste.

ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Nov 18 (IPS) - All over the Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan, large cranes, involved in the construction of new buildings and highways, are dotted across the city skyline.