News headlines in September 2015, page 7

New Delhi, Sep 12 (IPS) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' programme is inspired by the East Asian manufacturing export success story of development. Earlier, when he was chief minister of the state of Gujarat, he expressed an ambition of modeling the state on South Korea.

The inhabitants of the northern Chilean mining region of Antofagasta have the highest per capita income in the country. But some 4,000 local families continue to live in slums - a reflection of one of the most marked situations of inequality in this country.

DAR ES SALAAM, Sep 10 (IPS) - As the clock ticks towards the United Nations climate change conference (COP21) in Paris in December, African experts, policy-makers and civil society groups plan to come to the negotiation table prepared for a legal approach to avoid mistakes made during formulation of the Kyoto Protocol.

BERLIN, Sep 09 (IPS) - Finance ministers and central bank governors of the world's 20 major economies, accounting for 66 percent of world population, have pledged to "promote an enabling global economic environment for developing countries as they pursue their sustainable development agendas".

KIRKUK, Iraq, Sep 09 (IPS) - Reminders of the last occupants of camp K1 in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk are only visible on the murals at the main gate leading into the compound: Iraqi soldiers saluting the flag, pointing their weapons or being cheered on by grateful families.

OXFORD, Sep 09 (IPS) - Iran has had a nuclear programme since 1959 when the United States gave a small reactor to Tehran University as part of the "Atoms for Peace" programme during Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's reign.  When the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was introduced in 1968 and entered into force in 1970, Iran was one of the first signatories of that Treaty.

HAVANA, Sep 09 (IPS) - Young people in Cuba are anxiously awaiting an acceleration of the informatisation of society, which is apparently moving ahead at the same pace as the current reform process, "without haste, but without pause," according to the authorities.

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 09 (IPS) - The 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) banned the use of these deadly weapons for two primary reasons: they release small bomblets over a wide area, posing extended risks beyond war zones, and they leave behind unexploded ordnance which have killed civilians, including women and children, long after conflicts have ended.

NEW DELHI, Sep 09 (IPS) - After forming governments, authorising them to tax us and to spend on our collective needs, do we remain watchful about our money? No, we don't. Not even when we know governments borrow from money markets on the strength of the tax fund created, often beyond our means to repay. Why?