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UGANDA: Palm Project Accused of Environmental Destruction
By Wambi Michael
KAMPALA - It is a public-private partnership intended to reduce Uganda's dependence on imported vegetable oil while creating sustainable jobs and income for several thousand people. Its critics say it's destroying forests with no regard for environmental regulations.
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US-EUROPE: An Ocean Apart in More Ways Than One
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - As a delegation of European Union leaders descends on Washington Tuesday, a new report argues that "European governments prefer to fetishise transatlantic relations, valuing closeness and harmony as ends in themselves, and seeking influence with Washington through various strategies of seduction or ingratiation".
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ZIMBABWE: Watchdog Groups Urge Ban on Diamond Exports
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - The past week brought new scrutiny of Zimbabwe's human rights record with the deportation of a senior U.N. official sent to investigate torture there, and demands by a coalition of civil society groups that the international community address human rights violations stemming from Zimbabwe's lucrative diamond industry.
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LABOUR: Sorting Garbage - Green and Dignified Work
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - More than 1,500 representatives of waste recyclers from 13 countries, and thousands of other visitors, including the host country Brazil's left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, met last week in São Paulo, demonstrating that they are no longer pariahs in our throw-away society.
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ARGENTINA: 'Drugs Are Killing the Youngsters We're Feeding'
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - "You often ask yourself why feed them if some wretch is just going to come along and sell them that rubbish," says Isabel Ruiz, who runs the Las Brujas soup kitchen in Moreno, a poor neighbourhood on the west side of the Argentine capital.
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ZIMBABWE: Far From the City’s Money, Villagers Barter Again
By Stanley Kwenda
CHITSA, Zimbabwe - In Chitsa, a village with some 2,000 inhabitants located about 250 km from Zimbabwe’s capital of Harare, it has become difficult to conduct everyday transactions involving money.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Jockeying for Position in Copenhagen
By Servaas van den Bosch
WINDHOEK - The global climate change caravan has arrived in Barcelona for a last round of talks before the Copenhagen summit. What's at stake for Africa?
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ENVIRONMENT: Rethinking Jobs for a Sustainable Economy
By Matthew Cardinale*
ATLANTA, Georgia - The possibility of environmental catastrophe has led many leaders, scholars and average citizens to reconsider an economy based on constant growth. It is becoming clear that people, especially in the United States, will need to consume less in the way of natural resources to avoid planetary peril.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Investment in Ecosystems Key to Adaptation
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Investing in the sustainable management of ecosystems and curbing environmental degradation greatly improves the capacity of nations to adapt to climate change, according to a study carried out in 16 countries by two environmental organisations.
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DISARMAMENT: U.N. to Pursue Conventional Arms Trade Treaty
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which is pursuing a proposal for "a world without nuclear weapons", will soon turn its attention to another new goal in the field of disarmament: creating a legally-binding treaty on conventional arms.
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U.S.: Secret Bailouts for Giant Failing Banks of the Future?
By Adrianne Appel
BOSTON - Big banks will not be forced to downsize and the public will be the last to know when they fail, a controversial bill unveiled by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Congressman Barney Frank proposes.
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CHINA: Tide of Opposition Swells as Largest Dam Nears Completion

By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - Fifteen years after dynamite blasts first shattered the peace of China’s breathtaking Three Gorges, the Three Gorges Dam—the pride of China’s engineering progress—is nearing completion. But the cannonade of criticism bombarding the world’s largest and costliest dam in history is far from over.
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AGRICULTURE-KENYA: Finally, a Windfall for Tea Farmers
By Suleiman Mbatiah
NAIROBI - Despite the sweltering sun and with a heavy load on her back Mary Muthoni strides to the tea buying centre with joy and pride painted on her face. "This is a different year," she smiles, hurriedly greeting other women farmers at the centre. For them, the story is the same: blessings in times of calamity.
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