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AFRICA: Growing Use of Cellphones for Family Planning
By Susan Anyangu
KAMPALA - The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information.
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LATIN AMERICA: Journalistic Prize for Making Poverty News
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - The second "Latin America and the Millennium Development Goals" Journalism Prize, sponsored by the UNDP and IPS, was awarded Thursday in the Chilean capital in a ceremony addressed by the head of the U.N. agency, Helen Clark.
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AFGHANISTAN: Poll Finds Optimism, Amid Political Disenchantment
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - As debate continues in Washington over what its next steps should be in Afghanistan and as the total of NATO-led coalition deaths in the country approaches 70 for the fourth straight month, a new survey says Afghans are slightly more optimistic about the future of their country than in years past.
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U.S.: Public More Complacent About Climate Change
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Less than two months before a key international conference on curbing climate change, a major U.S. poll has found a sharp drop in public concern about global warming.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Tech Sector Urged to Lead Green Economy
By Chryso D'Angelo
UNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to the information and communications technology (ICT) community to help seal the deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
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ARGENTINA: Opposition, Media Giants to Fight New Law
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - While civil society groups celebrated Argentina's new broadcasting law, media giants threatened to fight it with a wave of lawsuits, and opposition lawmakers pledged to revise it after the next Congress convenes in December.
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ARGENTINA: Through the Lens of Young Slum Dwellers
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Two dozen young slum dwellers in Buenos Aires began filming a documentary about themselves this month, in an attempt to break down the negative stereotypes with which they are portrayed in the media.
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DEVELOPMENT: Rural India Set to Ring in 3G Mobile Technology
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - As India prepares to roll out third-generation (3G) mobile services in the world's fastest growing telecom market, there are high expectations that it will benefit people in the vast, impoverished rural hinterland most.
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U.S.: Public Sceptical and Hawkish on Iran
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Despite strong support for diplomatic engagement with Iran, most U.S. citizens believe such efforts will ultimately fail and that Washington should be prepared to use military force to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, according to a new poll released here Tuesday by the Pew Research Centre for the People and the Press.
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MEDIA: South-South Radio from Caracas to Africa
By Mildred Pineda
CARACAS - Poverty, attacks on human rights and corporate fraud will be among the main news coverage focuses of a new regional public radio network, Radio del Sur, which will link stations from South America and Africa.
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ENVIRONMENT-SOUTH AFRICA: Opportunities Spring From e-Waste
By Stephanie Nieuwoudt
CAPE TOWN - There was an audible gasp when Kirsten McIntyre told the audience that e-waste is the third fastest growing waste stream in the world, with between 40 and 50 million tons of computers, TVs and washing machines being "thrown away" each year.
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ENVIRONMENT: Turning Junk Mail Into Art
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - Like everyone else, Barbara Hashimoto hated the junk mail coming in through the door. Until she decided one day that it could be transformed into art, and lessons about the environment.
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MEDIA-INDONESIA: Children’s Newspaper a Breath of Fresh Air
By Richel Langit-Dursin - Asia Media Forum*
JAKARTA - In a country with more than 400 print media outlets, Indonesia’s first and only children’s newspaper is a breath of fresh air.
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