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New Rule Puts Brakes on U.S. Public Housing Demolitions
By Matthew Cardinale
ATLANTA, Georgia - Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the publication of a new notice which significantly tightens its procedures for the processing of public housing demolition applications by local housing authorities.
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ARGENTINA
Fair Trade Going Strong Amid Global Crisis
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - With a steady growth in production and exports, fair trade in Argentina is proving that socially and environmentally sustainable practices can be much more than a refuge from external crises.
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UNICEF Funding Falls Short Leaving Millions of Children at Risk
By Bari Bates
BRUSSELS - If the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) had 1.28 billion dollars it could help 97 million people around the world.
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Photos of Armed Children Ignite Scandal in Venezuela
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - A radical political group based in a working class neighbourhood of the Venezuelan capital has sparked a furore by publishing photographs of children from the community, with their faces partially hidden, brandishing AR-15 assault rifles.
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Latin America Takes a New Look at Neglected Diseases
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - The rise of emerging economies in Latin America is an opportunity to improve strategies for fighting neglected illnesses and increase the region's contribution to the global struggle against them, says the regional director of an organisation devoted to this purpose.
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Lawmakers, "Experts" Spin Tales of Iranian Terror in Latin America
Analysis by Charles Davis
WASHINGTON - Through its ties with Venezuela and other nations in Latin America, Iran is building an anti-U.S. alliance in the Western Hemisphere that poses a direct, imminent threat to the United States, an influential U.S. lawmaker said Thursday.
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Social Media Saved Africa’s Oldest Community Station
By Davison Mudzingwa*
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - When a financial crisis threatened the existence of Africa’s oldest community station, Bush Radio, an outpouring of sympathy and appeals went viral on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. In the end, it was this outspoken support that showed financial backers that the station was worth saving.
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Finnish Contest No More Between Right and Left
Analysis by Linus Atarah
HELSINKI - In an uncharacteristically lively election campaign in this nation of five million people, Finns head for the polls in a second round of voting Sunday to elect a new president.
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INDIA-PAKISTAN
Food Heals Historic Hostility
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI - If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then the path to peace between India and Pakistan may lie in the commonalities in their cultures and cuisines.
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Malawi’s Consumers Have a Right to Fuel and Forex Black Market
By Claire Ngozo
LILONGWE - The black market for foreign exchange and fuel is booming in the midst of an acute scarcity in Malawi. The shortage is so severe that even the Consumer Association of Malawi, an influential consumer rights body, has come out in support of the black market.
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Spate of Spills at Sea for Brazilian Oil Industry
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - An accident at an ultra-deepwater drilling platform spilled 160 barrels of crude off the coast of Brazil this week, deepening fears about safety in this new frontier of oil and gas production.
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Brazil Deepens Strategic Cooperation with Cuba
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's visit to Cuba served to further strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries, leverage the South American giant's investments in the Caribbean island, and deepen political ties.
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Political and Economic Turmoil Threaten Women's Progress
By Mathilde Bagneres
UNITED NATIONS - As UN Women celebrated its first birthday, its executive director Michelle Bachelet stressed that political upheveal and shrinking budgets are no excuse to push back the hard-won gains made by the women's movement globally.
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Early End to U.S. Combat Role in Afghanistan Draws Cheers, Jeers, Confusion
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's surprise announcement Wednesday that U.S. troops will phase out their combat role in Afghanistan by mid-2013 is drawing mixed reactions, as well as a fair bit of confusion, from both critics and supporters of the 11-year-old war here.
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Russia Sticks to Its Guns Against Heavy Hitters Backing Syria
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The political heavy hitters were all there at a key Security Council meeting early this week to decide on the future of beleaguered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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