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ARTS: Bollywood Gets Serious About HIV/AIDS
NEW YORK, Jul 23 (IPS) - Song and dance against a verdant valley. Good pitted against evil. Fantastical villains. Bright colours. Spectacle and turmoil. No more, no less, this is Bollywood as the Indian film industry has been known for decades. -
ARTS-US: Film Exposes Plight of 9/11 Rescuers
NEW YORK, Jul 23 (IPS) - While Washington continues to spend billions of dollars on its global "war on terror," thousands of ordinary people who took part in cleaning up the World Trade Centre site after the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks are left wondering if they will ever receive a single penny from the government for medical treatment. -
/ARTS WEEKLY/TELEVISION-CHILE: Battle of Prime Time Soaps Heats Up
SANTIAGO, Jul 23 (IPS) - Chile has not joined the ranks of Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela - Latin America's big producers of soap operas that are sold around the region and the world. -
HEALTH: People's Assembly Demands 'Health for All Now!'
CUENCA, Ecuador, Jul 18 (IPS) - More than 1,200 people from 77 countries are taking part in the second People's Health Assembly, which is demanding "Health for All Now!" and discussing alternatives for making health care universally available. -
ARGENTINA: No One in Prison, 11 Years After Bombing
BUENOS AIRES, Jul 18 (IPS) - Eleven years after 85 people were killed in the explosion of a Jewish community centre in the Argentine capital, the victims' families point to the contrast between the lack of results in the investigation compared to the quick progress made in tracking down the culprits in terrorist attacks on the United States, Spain and Britain. -
POLITICS-US: ”PlameGate” Is Hardly a Summer Squall
WASHINGTON, Jul 18 (IPS) - While to people living outside the Washington ”Beltway,” the current affair over the disclosure by top White House officials of the identity of a covert intelligence officer may seem somewhat esoteric, the stakes could not be higher. -
HEALTH: HIV/AIDS Threatens Militaries Worldwide
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 18 (IPS) - The United Nations is urging stronger international cooperation and long-term strategies to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, which is causing devastation among peacekeepers and national militaries worldwide. -
TRADE: Farmers Protest Over Sugar Reforms
BRUSSELS, Jul 18 (IPS) - More than 5,000 sugar farmers demonstrated in Brussels Monday as EU agriculture ministers gathered to debate the European Commission's proposed overhaul of the bloc's controversial sugar regime. -
RIGHTS: Gay Ex-Ministers Preach Acceptance
MEXICO CITY, Jul 18 (IPS) - When Steven Parelli and José Ortiz were evangelical ministers, they tried desperately to ”cure” their homosexuality through religious support groups, which merely added to their feelings of guilt and depression. -
ENVIRONMENT-CAMEROON: Corruption Rooted in Logging Industry - NGOs
YAOUNDE, Jul 18 (IPS) - Just over a decade ago, Cameroon drafted a law that was intended to regulate commercial use of the country's forests. In spite of this, corruption and uncontrolled exploitation are putting forest areas at risk, say non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
