News headlines in 2015, page 40

MEXICO CITY, Aug 05 (IPS) - While most of Latin America has been reducing poverty, Mexico is moving in the other direction: new official figures reflect an increase in the number of poor in the last two years, despite the billions of dollars channeled into a broad range of programmes aimed at combating the problem.

BRUSSELS, Aug 05 (IPS) - A Brussels-based think-tank has warned Venezuela of an impending humanitarian calamity in tandem with growing political instability.

HARARE, Aug 05 (IPS) - Hillary Thompson, aged 62, throws some grains of left-over rice from his last meal, mixed with some beer dregs from his sorghum brew, into a swimming pool that he has converted into a fish pond.

WINDHOEK, Aug 04 (IPS) - There was pure emotion in the face of Dr. Helena Ndume, more used to bringing sight to the blind than wiping away tears of her own.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 04 (IPS) - The recent agreement between Iran and six nations on nuclear non-proliferation will likely have a "positive impact" on North Korea, according to a senior South Korean diplomat.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 04 (IPS) - The United Nations has declared that 2015 is already "the deadliest year" for millions of migrants and asylum seekers fleeing war and persecution in their countries.

CAIRO, Aug 03 (IPS) - Ships at sea around the world will blast their horns on Aug 6 to mark the re-opening of the world-famous centenarian waterway in Egypt, local officials there say.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 03 (IPS) - After more than two years of intense negotiations, the U.N.'s 193 member states have unanimously agreed on a new Sustainable Development Agenda (SDA) with 17 goals -- including the elimination of extreme poverty and hunger -- to be reached by 2030.

GENEVA, Aug 03 (IPS) - The accounts of survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki will serve as inspiration for leaders of Christian churches grouped in the World Council of Churches (WCC), which advocates the elimination of nuclear weapons.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 03 (IPS) - After two years of negotiations, representatives of the United Nations' 193 member countries have reached agreement on a draft of the ambitious Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global agenda for eradicating poverty while ensuring sustainable growth.