IPS Inter Press Service

Analysis by Sanjay Suri

ST. ANDREWS - It has been a bad week for the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month. During the week the last meeting in the formal round of pre- Copenhagen talks collapsed in Barcelona. Then, meeting here on the weekend, the G20 finance ministers put the seal on that failure by failing to agree to a financial package.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Jockeying for Position in Copenhagen

CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa Readies United Front for Crucial Copenhagen Talks

CAMEROON: Gearing Up for Copenhagen

CLIMATE CHANGE: '15 Days to Copenhagen'

MEXICO: Women Package the Sweet Taste of Nostalgia
Emilio Godoy
AYOQUEZCO, Mexico - Years ago, when Catalina Sánchez saw an opportunity to earn an income and improve her family’s living conditions by growing and selling nopales - an edible cactus native to Mexico - she probably never imagined that her idea would spawn three businesses.

POLITICS: Thai-Cambodia Diplomatic Row Bares Decades-Long Rift
Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Thailand’s swift and strong response to Cambodia’s decision to appoint ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as an economic adviser exposed an emotional faultline rooted in decades of mutual suspicion and hatred.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Dark Clouds Gathering Over Copenhagen
	It has been a bad week for the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month. During the week the last meeting in the formal round of pre- Copenhagen talks collapsed in Barcelona. Then, meeting here on the weekend, the G20 finance ministers put the seal on that failure by failing to agree to a financial package.

SRI LANKA: Colombo’s Diplomatic Sparring Games with EU, U.S.

Q&A: Geert Wilders Gets a Big Email Hug

AFRICA: We Are the Government
	As if they were going to the races, Emma Musako and Monica Mhango showed up in their finest outfits to attend a meeting on the health, social and environmental impacts of uranium mining. They came because they, like the other attendees, no longer want to remain uninformed citizens.

ZIMBABWE: Numerous Challenges For Harare Water Supply

DEVELOPMENT: "Africans Should Become Their Own Philanthropists"

POLITICS: Thai-Cambodia Diplomatic Row Bares Decades-Long Rift
	Thailand’s swift and strong response to Cambodia’s decision to appoint ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as an economic adviser exposed an emotional faultline rooted in decades of mutual suspicion and hatred.

SRI LANKA: Colombo’s Diplomatic Sparring Games with EU, U.S.

POLITICS: U.S. Seeks to Limit Warlords in Karzai Cabinet

CLIMATE CHANGE: Dark Clouds Gathering Over Copenhagen
	It has been a bad week for the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month. During the week the last meeting in the formal round of pre- Copenhagen talks collapsed in Barcelona. Then, meeting here on the weekend, the G20 finance ministers put the seal on that failure by failing to agree to a financial package.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Divide Before You Add

ENVIRONMENT-SPAIN: Improving Garbage Management

MEXICO: Women Package the Sweet Taste of Nostalgia
	Years ago, when Catalina Sánchez saw an opportunity to earn an income and improve her family’s living conditions by growing and selling nopales - an edible cactus native to Mexico - she probably never imagined that her idea would spawn three businesses.

HONDURAS: Unilateral "Unity Government" Announced; Deal "Dead"

RIGHTS-NICARAGUA: Mudslinging Match Between Gov't, Activists

MIDEAST: Lessons from the Karine A -Déjà Vu All Over Again
	As Israeli Defence Forces munitions experts sorted through 300 tonnes of weapons found on a German-owned, Cypriot-operated cargo ship flying the Antiguan flag, Israeli politicians were sifting through the various talking points that could be offloaded from the vessel.

MIDEAST: Abbas Produces a Dubious Twist

POLITICS: U.N. Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report

CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Too Little, Too Late for Copenhagen?
	The momentum that U.S. climate change legislation has picked up in recent weeks will not be enough to get it through prior to the Copenhagen climate talks that kick off Dec. 7. It has also come at a steep price for those most committed to seeing such legislation pass.

MIDEAST: Lessons from the Karine A -Déjà Vu All Over Again

U.S.: "War Comes Home" with Ft. Hood Shootings

CLIMATE CHANGE: Dark Clouds Gathering Over Copenhagen
	It has been a bad week for the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month. During the week the last meeting in the formal round of pre- Copenhagen talks collapsed in Barcelona. Then, meeting here on the weekend, the G20 finance ministers put the seal on that failure by failing to agree to a financial package.

CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Too Little, Too Late for Copenhagen?

AFRICA: We Are the Government

POLITICS: Thai-Cambodia Diplomatic Row Bares Decades-Long Rift
	Thailand’s swift and strong response to Cambodia’s decision to appoint ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as an economic adviser exposed an emotional faultline rooted in decades of mutual suspicion and hatred.

SRI LANKA: Colombo’s Diplomatic Sparring Games with EU, U.S.

HONDURAS: Unilateral "Unity Government" Announced; Deal "Dead"

U.S.: "War Comes Home" with Ft. Hood Shootings
	While investigators probe for a motive behind the mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas Thursday, in which an army psychiatrist is suspected of killing 13 people, military personnel at the base are in shock as the incident "brings the war home".

HEALTH: Uganda’s Counterfeits Bill Threatens Access to Medicine

LESOTHO: AIDS Orphans get Helping Hand

AFRICA: We Are the Government
	As if they were going to the races, Emma Musako and Monica Mhango showed up in their finest outfits to attend a meeting on the health, social and environmental impacts of uranium mining. They came because they, like the other attendees, no longer want to remain uninformed citizens.

DEVELOPMENT: "Africans Should Become Their Own Philanthropists"

Q&A: Put the New Women's Agency in Africa