IPS Inter Press Service

Nasseem Ackbarally

PORT-LOUIS - "We lived like fishes in the water. We were not lazy. We worked hard. We lived a very natural way of life by eating fish and green vegetables and fruits that was abundant in the forests. Nature was our refrigerator."

Protests, Hypocrisy at Nuclear Carrier's Port Call

AFGHANISTAN: Insurgents Infiltrate Security Forces
Lal Aqa Sherin*
KABUL - A Taliban fighter infiltrated the Afghan police force, killing seven Afghan officers and British soldiers. Similar attacks have taken the lives of U.S. troops.

LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job
Dalila Mahdawi
BEIRUT - October and November have been bloody months for Lebanon's migrant domestic workers - over the last five weeks nine women have died. Most deaths have been reported as suicide.

POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals
	A special U.N. summit of world leaders, scheduled to take place next year, is expected to make "a final push" to help reach the world body's widely-touted development goals by the targeted date of 2015.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk

CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example

RIGHTS-CHAGOS: 'My Navel is Buried There'
	LOUIS, Nov 21 (IPS) - "We lived like fishes in the water. We were not lazy. We worked hard. We lived a very natural way of life by eating fish and green vegetables and fruits that was abundant in the forests. Nature was our refrigerator."

GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges

POLITICS-BOTSWANA: I Lost the Election, But I Am a Winner

AFGHANISTAN: Insurgents Infiltrate Security Forces
	A Taliban fighter infiltrated the Afghan police force, killing seven Afghan officers and British soldiers. Similar attacks have taken the lives of U.S. troops.

Q&A: "Karzai Assigned a Rabbit to Take Care of the Carrot"

RIGHTS-LAOS: How Women Cope With Disability - Part 1

CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
	Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen.

KOSOVO: Ten Years On, Forensics Continues to ID Missing

SLOVAKIA: Velvet Touch Brings Communists Back

PERU: Fighting Hunger with Native Crops
	As if he were showing off a treasure, Dionicio Sarmiento holds up his seed potatoes with a smile. "Look how nice they are, all ready to plant. It'll be a good harvest," says the peasant farmer from Huancavelica, Peru's poorest province, where most of the population depends on subsistence farming.

RIGHTS-MEXICO: State Held Responsible for Three Juárez Killings

CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Say They Were Framed

LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job
	October and November have been bloody months for Lebanon's migrant domestic workers - over the last five weeks nine women have died. Most deaths have been reported as suicide.

U.S.: Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess

MIDEAST: U.S. Credibility as Peace Broker Eroding by the Day

Q&A: "Karzai Assigned a Rabbit to Take Care of the Carrot"
	In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United States and its allies are wondering what to do about Afghanistan.