News headlines in March 2014, page 10

DUMBARTON, St. Vincent, Mar 12 (IPS) - Allan Williams, 32, is an agriculture extension officer in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. But as a trained apiculturist, he has also been involved in beekeeping as a hobby for the past seven years.

CAPE TOWN, Mar 12 (IPS) - Despite an increase in diagnosis times, South Africa is facing a growing drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) burden as nationally there remains a large gap between the number of patients diagnosed with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and those who start treatment.

SEOUL, Mar 12 (IPS) - Old family bonds still seem to run deep in the South Korea of today. For evidence, one need only look at the yearning of the elderly to meet their long separated kin in North Korea during last month's historic family reunions.

ADDIS ABABA, Mar 12 (IPS) - Ireland's former President Mary Robinson has been working hard to include women from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region in the regional peacebuilding process. Because without their involvement, she says, peace and security in the region will be unrealistic.

MAPUTO, Mar 12 (IPS) - Some of the technological excellence that revolutionised Brazil's tropical agriculture is reaching small producers in Mozambique. But it is not enough to compensate for the underfinancing of the sector.

WASHINGTON, Mar 12 (IPS) - An ongoing battle between the Democratic chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over reports about the agency's "enhanced interrogation" practices during the George W. Bush administration has escalated sharply.

WASHINGTON, Mar 11 (IPS) - Even as U.S. and Moroccan executives meet to discuss strengthening private sector ties between the two countries, advocacy groups are raising concerns about plans by a U.S. energy firm to explore for oil in the contested territory known as Western Sahara. 

SANTIAGO, Mar 11 (IPS) - For the past four years, the foreign policy of Chile, South America's "miracle", has focused more on economic  than political issues.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11 (IPS) - Russia, which is at loggerheads with Washington over the spreading political crisis in Ukraine, is threatening to undermine a longstanding military relationship between the United States and one of its traditional allies in the Middle East: Egypt.

ROME, Mar 11 (IPS) - F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said "The rich are different from you or me", yet in his days, in the early years of the 20^th century, the rich were not subject to public scrutiny, and were generally an object of envy, not resentment.