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Fighting Violence with Death in Guatemala
Global Politics Online / IPS By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – As the movement for the abolition of the death penalty gains ground worldwide, Guatemala is seeking to reintroduce capital punishment, which has been in legal limbo since 2000. Congress has already approved a law paving the way for the execution [...]
Military Jury Tried to “Send a Message” in Khadr Case
Global Politics Online / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – A military jury at Guantanamo Bay sentenced a "child soldier" to 40 years in prison – unaware that Omar Khadr’s defence and prosecution lawyers had already agreed on an eight-year sentence and further agreed that the United States would send [...]
COURIER PACKAGE BOMBS & SECURITY FOR OBAMA: QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 688 Global Politics Online B.RAMAN ( Based on open source information ) Q.What materials for assembling an improvised explosive device (IED) have been recovered by the authorities of the Dubai airport and the East Midlands airport of the UK from the cargo planes of the FedExpress and the UPS respectively which [...]
Biodiversity Pact Begins With the Genes
Global Politics Online / IPS By Stephen Leahy* NAGOYA, Japan, Oct 31, 2010 (Tierramérica) – The delegates to the 10th Conference of Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity ended up with a relatively weak plan for the Herculean task of halting the disappearance of species. The exception was a pact on the [...]
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PERU: After Toxic Mine Spill, Locals Demand Both Jobs and Cleanup
Global Politics Online / IPS By Milagros Salazar LIMA, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – Four months after Peru’s worst toxic spill of mining waste, workers at the Caudalosa mine are demanding that it be reopened, while local communities want more cleanup of the rivers they depend on for water supplies. Caudalosa, a Peruvian-owned mining company, [...]
EUROPE: Drones may Track Migrants
Global Politics Online / IPS By Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – The notice appeared quietly on the website of Frontex, Europe’s agency to fight undocumented migration. It called for expressions of interest in demonstrating "Small UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and Fixed systems for Land border surveillance" at its workshop. "In the domain [...]
MIDEAST: Could Have Danced All Siege
Global Politics Online / IPS By Eva Bartlett DEIR AL-BALAH, Oct 31, 2010 (IPS) – "I’d planned to have my wedding party on a Thursday night, when more people could come, and stay later. But because the Dabke dancers weren’t free then, I held it on a Tuesday," says Mohammed Ghronaim, 27, from Deir al-Balah, [...]
Haitian Mothers Find Care in Dominican Republic, but Future Is Bleak
Global Politics Online / IPS By Elizabeth Eames Roebling SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Oct 29, 2010 (IPS) – In the spacious lobby of the Nuestra Señora de Altagracia maternity hospital, more than a hundred people wait quietly in chairs, overlooked by a 20-foot-high coloured mosaic inset portraying the patron saint of the Dominican Republic. One [...]
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