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7/23/2010
Spain's Renewable Energy Heads West
Clarinha Glock* - Tierramerica
BARCELONA, Jul 22 (IPS) - Plagued by Spain's economic recession and subsidy cuts, renewable energy businesses are following the sun and wind to Latin America in search of profits. In 2009, the wind energy companies of the Madrid-based AEE (Asociacion Empresarial Eolica) reached 1,274 megawatts installed capacity in Latin America. At the head of the list was Mexico (650 MW), followed by Brazil and Chile.
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7/22/2010
U.N. Chief Dilly-Dallying on Panel to Probe Israeli Killings
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 21 (IPS) - When the Security Council condemned the killings by Israeli military forces of nine Turkish civilians on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza last May, it also released a presidential statement "taking note" of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's proposal for an international investigation of the incident.
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Loophole Gives Burmese Junta Room to Go Nuclear in Secrecy
Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Jul 21 (IPS) - Thanks to a loophole in the international regime to control the proliferation of nuclear weapons, military-ruled Burma could very well carry out its reported intent to go nuclear behind a veil of secrecy, free of scrutiny from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). That is the privilege the South-east Asian nation enjoys under the Small Quantities Protocol it signed with the Vienna-based IAEA in April 1995, three years after Burma, also known as Myanmar, became party to the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
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Window of Opportunity For Sahel Rapidly Closing
Jennifer Leong
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 21 (IPS) - Over the past six months, the levels of food insecurity and malnutrition in the Sahel belt of West Africa have increased at alarming rates, putting over 10 million people at risk across the region - particularly in Niger and Chad. The coming weeks are a critical period for humanitarian assistance efforts, Nicholas Alipui, UNICEF Director of Programmes, told the IPS, explaining that a large number of young children are currently on the borderline of suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM).
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Chinese Show Europeans a New Face
Antoaneta Becker
LONDON, Jul 21 (IPS) - German Chancellor Angel Merkel's weekend visit to China has put a positive spin on the increasingly complex economic relations between China and the European Union, but the flurry of deals signed has not disguised the fact that Beijing faces challenges over its EU policies both at home and abroad.
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U.S. Intensifies Anti-Counterfeit Drive in East Africa
Wambi Michael
KAMPALA, Jul 19 (IPS) - The U.S.'s recent promotion of intellectual property (IP) rights in Uganda is an indirect way of introducing the Anti-Counterfeits Trade Agreement (ACTA) debate in East Africa. This is the opinion of Nathan Irumba, Uganda's former ambassador to the World Trade Organisation, in an interview with IPS.
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Debate on Sex Education in Malaysia Rises with Teen Pregnancies
Baradan Kuppusamy
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 21 (IPS) - The prospect of motherhood filled 17-year-old Fatimah's heart with dread. This, the Muslim youngster told the magistrate she appeared before in March, is why she left her newborn baby to die in a garbage bag here in the Malaysian capital four months ago. "I feared punishment and condemnation from my family and teachers in college," said Fatimah (not her real name).
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Obama-Cameron Meet Overshadowed By BP and Libya
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7/21/2010
Intellectual Property Rights Remain A Barrier to Drugs
Isolda Agazzi
GENEVA, Jul 20 (IPS) - Intellectual property (IP) rights are a key reason for high medicine prices, rendering such medicines unaffordable and therefore out of reach for poor people. While mechanisms exist to circumvent IP, poor countries have been browbeaten into adopting stringent IP laws. "Of all the issues discussed at World Health Organisation governing bodies, access to medicines consistently sparks the most potentially explosive debates," stated Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), at a symposium on access to medicines.
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