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Cancun Conference Holds Out Little Hope in Face of Extreme Weather

Julio Godoy* - Tierramerica

BONN, Aug 12 (IPS) - Unusually warm temperatures and more frequent and intense droughts and hurricanes... you have seen the headlines. As options dwindle for negotiating a global pact to fight climate change, the United Nations is pointing to today's "extreme conditions."

U.S. Gulf Health Problems Blamed on Dispersed Oil

Dahr Jamail

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama, Aug 12 (IPS) - BP says it is no longer using toxic dispersants to break up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Gulf Coast residents claim otherwise, and say they have the sicknesses to prove it. On Aug. 5, Donny Mastler, a commercial fisherman who also works on boats, was at the Dauphin Island Marina.

Jobless Youth Still Waiting for Better Times

Marwaan Macan-Markar

BANGKOK, Aug 12 (IPS) - Tanya Athikom's search for a permanent job in the information technology sector has so far resulted in a string of disappointments. The Bangkok resident has thus been forced to accept short-term contracts in local and multinational companies here in the Thai capital.

Despite Ad Ban, Tobacco Industry Seduces Customers

Kara Santos

MANILA, Aug 12 (IPS) - Adventure motorcycle tours, and driving and racing events organised by tobacco firms. Canopies bearing cigarette brands in popular restaurants. Tobacco brands appearing beside the signages of convenience stores, whether along the Philippine capital's urban alleys or provincial roads.

Unearthing Victims of the Christmas Massacre in Peru

Angel Paez

LIMA, Aug 12 (IPS) - The families of 40 villagers murdered in Peru on Christmas Day in 1984 are camping out next to the eight graves in which their loved ones were buried, to keep watch over the slow, painful process of exhuming the bodies, a task that is being carried out by the public prosecutor's office.

Mapuche Prisoners on Hunger Strike to Demand Talks

Daniela Estrada

SANTIAGO, Aug 12 (IPS) - The families of 32 Mapuche prisoners on a hunger strike for a month in different prisons in southern Chile have come to the capital to denounce irregularities in their trials and push for dialogue with the authorities.

Road Construction in Mexico Runs Counter to Climate Efforts
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8/12/2010

Russia's Agony a "Wake-Up Call" to the World

Stephen Leahy

VIENNA, Aug 11 (IPS) - A wind turbine on an acre of northern Iowa farmland could generate 300,000 dollars worth of greenhouse-gas-free electricity a year. Instead, the U.S. government pays out billions of dollars to subsidise grain for ethanol fuel that has little if any impact on global warming, according to Lester Brown.

The Turks Return

Vesna Peric Zimonjic

BELGRADE, Aug 11 (IPS) - It's not often that the leading Belgrade daily Politika devotes two of its four foreign pages to the praise of one nation, but it did so for the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last month. Turkey was complimented as "one of the most important" partners of Serbia and the Balkans region. The paper detailed accounts of Turkish economic success and investments in the area, such as a billion euros (1.29 billion dollars) in Albania, or hundreds of millions in neighbouring Bosnia- Herzegovina.

Philippines Smokes Out Tobacco Industry with Higher Taxes

Marwaan Macan-Markar

BANGKOK, Aug 11 (IPS) - Tobacco multinational Philip Morris may have had good reason to send out victory smoke signals when Filipinos elected Benigno Aquino III to be president in May. After all, he is a regular smoker who has said he will not quit the habit. But the strong tobacco industry lobby in one of the region's most lucrative cigarette markets received a sharp reminder in August that Aquino's penchant for a puff "when under stress" will not come in the way of the Philippines' joining the global trend to discourage the smoking habit.

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