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Tunisia: Civil Society Criminalised

LONDON, July 1 (IPS) - In May, Tunisian lawyer and journalist Sonia Dahmani was handed her second conviction of the...

US Slams Israel for Undermining Peace Negotiations with Iran – but Rift is Dismissed as a Passing Show

UNITED NATIONS, July 1 (IPS) - The on-again, off-again US-Iran peace negotiations, which have been disparaged by Israeli leaders, have...

The UN Climate Talks in Bonn Just Failed. Why?

APEX, North Carolina / SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 30 (IPS) - With progress stalled on many issues, this year’s June...

Smart Farming Is Not the Future. It Is Already Here

ROME, June 30 (IPS) - Farmers today are producing food under pressures that would have been unimaginable to previous generations....

Xenophobia Won’t Bring Wealth – Only Misery – To South African’s Too

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, June 30 (IPS) - Usually, the fiesta to celebrate St Antony at the church with the same...