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3/17/2010
Israeli Raids Target Children
Nora Barrows-Friedman
SILWAN, EAST JERUSALEM, Mar 16 (IPS) - Three thousand heavily armed Israeli security service forces locked down large parts of the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday, as battalions of police fired rounds of tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian protesters in the occupied eastern part of the city. Nearly 40 Palestinians were wounded and treated at nearby hospitals, as 25 were arrested during intense clashes.
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Israel-U.S. Tensions Continue to Percolate
Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) - Despite assurances by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday that the United States and Israel share a "close, unshakeable bond", the week-old crisis between the two allies continued to percolate here Tuesday.
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With Blood Spilt, Political Wounds in Thailand Far from Healed
Analysis - By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Mar 16 (IPS) - A nearly four-kilometre arc of road that cuts through the historic part of the Thai capital, the site of the largest anti-government protests the country has seen in years, has brought into sharp relief a political wound that is far from being healed in this kingdom. Sandwiched between the parliament to the north of the stately, tree-lined Rajadamnoen Avenue, and the iconic four pillars of the Democracy Monument to the west, it is the area that an angry legion of protesters has occupied since Mar. 13 to demand that the coalition government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva step down or call a new election.
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Corruption Carries High Cost in Africa, World Bank Says
Mohammed A. Salih
WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) - Poverty is on the rise in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and various forms of corruption threaten to undermine the impact of investments made to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the continent, said the World Bank in a report released Monday on Africa's development. The report says the number of people who live on less than two dollars a day has doubled from 292 million in 1981 to nearly 555 million in 2005.
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Afghanistan Spy Contract Goes Sour for Pentagon - Part 1
Pratap Chatterjee
WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) - Mike Furlong, a top Pentagon official, is alleged to have run a covert network of contractors to supply information for drone strikes and assassinations in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the U.S. government. The contract built upon his decade-long experience in running propaganda programmes for the military in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq.
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In Canada, No News on Climate Change is Bad News
Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 16 (IPS) - Canada's climate researchers are being muzzled, their funding slashed, research stations closed, findings ignored and advice on the critical issue of the century unsought by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government, according to a 40-page report by a coalition of 60 non-governmental organisations. "This government says they take climate change seriously but they do nothing and try to hide the truth about climate change," said Graham Saul, representing Climate Action Network Canada (CAN), which produced the report "Troubling Evidence".
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Ban heads for Middle East Quartet Meeting
Sahel Leaders Meet on al Qaeda Threat
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3/16/2010
Despite Recession, Global Arms Race Spirals
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 15 (IPS) - The global financial crisis has not deterred some of the world's developed and developing nations from bolstering their military arsenals with expensive new weapons systems, including sophisticated fighter planes, combat helicopters, submarines, armoured vehicles and air defence systems.
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U.S.-Israeli Tensions Escalating Quickly
Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Mar 15 (IPS) - The crisis touched off by last week's announcement of Israel's plans to build 1,600 new homes for Jews in Arab East Jerusalem during a high-profile visit by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden appears to be escalating rapidly. Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to Washington and a historian who has written widely on ties between the two nations, called the growing contretemps "the worst (bilateral) crisis in 35 years" in a teleconference with other U.S.-based Israeli diplomats Saturday night, according to a number of published accounts.
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An Unlikely Collision Takes Place in Mideast
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Mar 15 (IPS) - In the middle of last week, it seemed that the old cliché about the light at the end of the dark Middle East tunnel was being confirmed: the U.S. had successfully cajoled both Israel and the Palestinian Authority into beginning to talk again.
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