CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
By Julio Godoy*
COPENHAGEN - 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.
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KOSOVO: Ten Years On, Forensics Continues to ID Missing
By Apostolis Fotiadis
PRISTINA - Pictures of missing people have been hanging for years next to the gate to the fence surrounding Kosovo’s parliament. Some of them have been there for so long that the features of the faces can hardly be seen anymore - a good example of how slow and painful the process of discovering the fate of the missing is.
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SLOVAKIA: Velvet Touch Brings Communists Back
By Pavol Stracansky
BRATISLAVA - As Slovaks mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism this week, former dissidents have lashed out at top political figures, including the prime minister, who they say are trying to paint the totalitarian regime of old in a positive light.
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RIGHTS: Tick the Right Box If You Feel French
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - The stereotypical image of a French person is of someone wearing a beret and carrying a baguette under his arm. But can one wear a burqa and also be French? Can one prefer pitta bread to baguettes and still be French?
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DEVELOPMENT: Climate Change Likely to Increase African Hunger Woes
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say.
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DEVELOPMENT: To Grab, Or To Invest
Analysis by Paul Virgo
ROME - The World Food Security Summit in Rome this week opened up a dispute between what may be investment in farmland to some, but is seen as land grab by others.
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FINANCE: Icelanders Question IMF Loan
By Lowana Veal*
REYKJAVIK - After eight months of waiting, Iceland is finally back on the agenda of the IMF. The second instalment of the IMF loan was agreed at the end of last month and has now been transferred to Iceland.
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DEVELOPMENT: Hunger Summit’s Failure Exposes Grim Reality
By Paul Virgo
ROME - There are two main ways the flop of this week’s United Nations World Food Security Summit in Rome - which has been snubbed by the world’s top leaders, has failed to deliver binding aid commitments, or to set a target date for the eradication of hunger - is being read.
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DEVELOPMENT: Hunger Summit Passes Toothless Declaration
By Paul Virgo
ROME - Fears that the United Nations World Food Security Summit would fail to deliver effective measures to defeat hunger were borne out Monday when world leaders and government officials approved a toothless declaration on the first day.
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DEVELOPMENT: Farmers Not Invited to Food Summit?
By Sabina Zaccaro
ROME - World farmers are not part of the official delegations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food summit on food security that opened here Monday. But they came anyhow to express their views, since, they say, it is their communities that are most impacted by the food crisis.
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