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Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 19 (IPS) – Brazil expects its international standing to be bolstered by more cooperative relations with the United States under the presidency of Barack Obama, as well as a shift in Washington’s position on the issue of climate change and with respect [...]

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Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Jan 19 (IPS) – Humanitarian aid is being rushed into Gaza as Israel and Egypt open their borders temporarily to allow convoys of aid to pass through.
While Israeli drones circle the skies above, Hamas security men are back on the streets attempting to restore some semblance [...]

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Daniel Luban
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (IPS) – The three-week-old war in Gaza – halted Saturday by an Israeli ceasefire – has had a polarising effect on the U.S. Jewish community, resulting in a deeper and at times acrimonious split between dovish groups that are sceptical of the Israeli military [...]

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Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (IPS) – Just as the foreign policy of U.S. President George W. Bush was characterised by a continuous battle for control between hawks led by Vice President Dick Cheney and realists based primarily in the State Department and intelligence community – and, [...]

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Charles Arthur*
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 14 (IPS) – Haiti’s peasant farmers are organising and taking action to try and bring an end to the country’s dependence on food imports, and to avert the prospect of looming famine.
In recent months, meetings and demonstrations held by peasant farmer groups and supported by [...]

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Anil Netto
KUALA TERENGGANU, Jan 16 (IPS) – Following the political tsunami in March, which propelled a disparate opposition alliance to power in five of 13 Malaysian states, voters in the capital of oil-rich Terengganu state will determine Saturday if an ‘east coast monsoon’ will drive the alliance closer [...]

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Analysis by Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 15 (IPS) – Eighteen U.S. veterans kill themselves every day. More veterans are committing suicide than are dying in combat overseas. One in every three homeless men in the United States has put on a uniform and served his country. On any [...]

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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 15 (IPS) – Israel’s relentless air attacks on a besieged Gaza, which have killed over 1,000 Palestinians and destroyed hundreds of homes, continue to take place away from the gaze of the international news media.
A country that claims to be the only multi-party democracy [...]

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Peter Richards
PORT OF SPAIN, Jan 14 (IPS) – As it stands now, the office of the president of Trinidad and Tobago is largely ceremonial. But if the draft document on a new constitution released by the Patrick Manning government last week is anything to go by, that could [...]

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Beena Sarwar
KARACHI, Jan 13 (IPS) – As tensions between Pakistan and India continue to see-saw, citizens in both countries are stepping up efforts for peace through initiatives ranging from a cross-border signature campaign to seminars and personal efforts.
Such efforts encounter hostility between the nuclear-armed neighbours that has been [...]