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Activists Struggle to Recover Human Rights Archives

By Edgardo Ayala
Some 50,000 files on crimes against humanity are languishing in an undisclosed location in El Salvador, prey to damp and the ravages of time, while activists and lawyers frantically try to regain control over them.

Grief Veils Eid for Syrian Refugees

By Rebecca Murray
This week the Islamic world marks one of its holiest holidays, Eid al-Adha - honouring Ibrahim’s commitment to sacrifice his first-born son to Allah. The festival involves large family gatherings, bountiful lunches and generous gift giving.

Walking an Economic Tightrope with No Safety Net

By Thalif Deen
With the richest one percent of the population now owning 40 percent of global assets, and the bottom half sharing just one percent, inequality is fast being recognised as a stubborn underlying obstacle to development.

Programme to Boost Small Farmers Fights for Continuity

By Enzo Mangini
When it launched in 2007, the FAO programme known as Food Security through Commercialisation of Agriculture (FSCA) tried to adopt an approach that differed from on-going efforts to achieve food security, which focused primarily on food production.

Finding Land for Cameroon’s Pastoralist Nomads

By Ngala Killian Chimtom
Adamou Harouna’s herd of cattle grazes leisurely on lush green vegetation in Ndop, a small village in Cameroon’s North West Region.

With Obama Away, the Chinese Play

By Richard Heydarian
As the U.S. struggles with a weeks-long government shutdown which has threatened the country’s economic recovery and forced President Barack Obama to cancel a series of high-stakes visits to Asia, China has instead taken the centre-stage, boosting ties with Asian neighbours and promising multi-billion trade and investment deals.

Israel and the Gulf Increasingly Nervous Over Iran-U.S. Détente

By Jim Lobe
As hopeful, albeit vague, statements about talks in Geneva between Iran and the great powers continued to issue from the Swiss city Tuesday, foes of détente between Washington and Tehran maintained their own high tempo of work.

Russia May Do Better Than its Nuclear Rhetoric

By Pavol Stracansky
Despite a seemingly entrenched resistance to change on its nuclear disarmament policy, the Kremlin’s recent initiative to get Syria to destroy its chemical weapons provides hope that Russia could play a more positive role in reducing the world’s global nuclear stockpiles, experts say.

Armenia’s Fight against Gender Equality Morphs into Fight Against EU

By Marianna Grigoryan
Europe is getting a surprise bashing in Armenia over a law on gender equality that many Armenians claim is designed to “promote” homosexuality as a “European value.”

No Safe Havens in Increasingly Acid Oceans

By Stephen Leahy
Oil, gas and coal are contaminating the world's oceans from top to bottom, threatening the lives of more than 800 million people, a new study warns Tuesday.

Geneva Talks Open amid High Hopes in Iran

By Jasmin Ramsey
Iran offered a new proposal in much-anticipated talks over its nuclear programme here Tuesday in a meeting with the P5+1 negotiating team comprising the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China, plus Germany.

Giant Companies Pinpricked by ‘Direct Democracy’

By Ray Smith
A Swiss village has decided to reject tax money from the firm Glencore and to instead donate it to charities. Other towns may follow, sending a strong signal to the government to follow the U.S. and the EU and introduce transparency rules for the extractive industry.

Sicilian Town Opposes U.S. Transmitters

By Silvia Giannelli
Niscemi, with its 30,000 local residents and its white houses, is a typical southern Sicilian town. But it stands out not only for its ancient cork forest, but also for the Naval Radio Transmitter Facility located within the protected forest itself.

Not Fukushima Again

By Suvendrini Kakuchi
Two and a half years ago, Ayako Oga, now 30, found herself helpless as an earthquake and the tsunami it triggered hit Japan and crippled four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. She and her husband were forced to abandon their village Ookuma Machi, barely five kilometres away.

U.S. Science Reporters Becoming an Endangered Species

By Zofeen Ebrahim
The news for environmental journalism in the United States is grim and getting grimmer.

Climate Change a Mixed Blessing for Coconut Farmers

By Desmond Brown
Climbing up the coconut industry has been anything but easy for Rosamund Benn, who has dedicated the past 32 years of her life working on a 50-acre coconut farm in The Pomeroon, a farming region of Guyana.

India Beats a Cyclone

By Malini Shankar
“No casualties have been reported till now,” India’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) declared at 9:30 am the morning after the near Super Cyclone ‘Phailin’ made landfall in India’s east.

Iran Talks to Resume Amid Guarded Optimism

By Jasmin Ramsey
Almost exactly four months after the election of Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, talks over the Islamic Republic’s controversial nuclear programme will resume here on Tuesday.

Kurds Build Bridges At Last

By Karlos Zurutuza
After fleeing the war three months ago, Gulnaz is headed back for Syria to bury her brother within the 24 hours Islam stipulates. But it is far from easy to take the coffin across the Syrian-Iraqi border.

U.S. Govt Shutdown Dashes Immigrant Dreams

By Samuel Oakford
Early on the morning of Oct. 1, Tapia* left her home in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, took the subway into Manhattan and headed to the federal courthouse on Varick Street.

Mystery Attackers Hit Sinai

By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
A period of more than three months since former president Mohamed Morsi's ouster by Egypt's powerful military establishment have been marked by almost daily attacks on Egyptian security personnel, especially in the restive Sinai Peninsula. The identity of the attackers remains a mystery.
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