PHILIPPINES: Storm-weary Farmers Suffer Huge Losses
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By Prime Sarmiento
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines, Oct 21 (IPS) – Café by the Ruins, a popular rustic restaurant situated in Baguio City, the Philippines’ famed mountain city resort, usually caters to tourists and residents who enjoy sipping their cups of brewed coffee while appreciating the artworks [...]
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/POLITICS: Pakistan’s Offensive, Afghanistan’s Risk
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Commentary By Killid Correspondents*
KABUL, Oct 13 (IPS) – For generations, Pakistan’s southern Waziristan region has been a launching pad for insurgent military operations in Afghanistan
During the Soviet invasion of this country, Mujahiddin used the area as a staging ground for attacks on Russian soldiers. [...]
CAMBODIA: Alarming Maternal Deaths Require a Mix of Solutions
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Robert Carmichael
PHNOM PENH, Oct 12 (IPS) – Early this year, heavily pregnant Vorn Yoeub, 37, arrived at a hospital in the western Cambodian border town of Pailin. The mother of seven other children died later that evening along with her unborn child after suffering complications [...]
POLITICS: Defiant China Asserts Role in Global Affairs
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Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING, Oct 12 (IPS) – The symbolism of Beijing dispatching its second top leader for celebrations with the reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il almost at the same time as Washington was deciding to break a tradition by refusing the Dalai Lama a meeting [...]
POLITICS: Pakistan’s Offensive, Afghanistan’s Risk
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Commentary By Killid Correspondents*
KABUL, Oct 12 (IPS) – For generations, Pakistan’s southern Waziristan region has been a launching pad for insurgent military operations in Afghanistan
During the Soviet invasion of this country, Mujahiddin used the area as a staging ground for attacks on Russian soldiers. [...]
THE PUNJABI TALIBAN
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO. 566
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B.RAMAN
The interrogation of Muhammed Aquil alias Dr.Usman, the only surviving member of the group of nine terrorists, which launched a commando-style attack on the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters (GHQ) at Rawalpindi on October 10,2009, which lasted a little over 20 hours, has [...]
EAST TIMOR: Slow Progress for Corruption Watchdog
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By Matt Crook
DILI, Oct 10 (IPS) – A lack of political will to tackle corruption in East Timor is holding the country back, said Sebastiao Ximenes, East Timor’s Ombudsman for Human Rights and Justice.
"What all people expect is that our leaders must have a [...]
WHO WAS AMJAD FAROOQI IN WHOSE NAME PAK GHQ HAS BEEN RAIDED?
INTERNATIONaL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.563
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B.RAMAN
A news agency report says as follows: "The Tehreek-e-Taliban has claimed responsibility for the brazen attack on the Pakistan Army’s Headquarters in Rawalpindi on Saturday, which left four of its militants and eight soldiers dead. The outfit has again demanded a halt in the [...]
PHILIPPINES: Like Men, Women Aim to Put Food on the Table
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Stephen de Tarczynski
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines, Oct 9 (IPS) – Despite experiencing an unsuccessful first foray into the world of commerce, the members of the Canduman Women’s Co-operative (CWC) remain focused on producing a profit to aid their families’ day-to-day living expenses.
Established in September 2008, the women-only CWC [...]
U.S.: Pro-War Officials Play Up Taliban-al Qaeda Ties
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Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) – U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strategy of full-fledged counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan, are claiming new intelligence assessments suggesting that al Qaeda would be allowed to return to Afghanistan in [...]
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