International
Venezuelan president visits Iran
April 4, 2009Teheran, Apr 2 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez started Thursday an official visit to Iran, to foster bilateral links, especially in the oil sector. Chavez's agenda here includes meeting with his Iranian peer Mahmud Ahmadineyad,...
Read moreHow the G-20 can pay for a global climate deal
April 3, 2009The G-20 summit convening in London on April 2 is preparing to create a quarter trillion dollars of brand new stimulus money to help poor countries battle the global recession. World leaders plan to use a...
Read moreSouth Africa: New ideas at 4th national AIDS conference
April 3, 2009DURBAN, (PlusNews) - South Africa's fourth national AIDS conference opened in the east-coast city of Durban this week with calls to scale up AIDS programming in a country that still has a long way to go...
Read moreEngaging men in gender equality efforts
April 3, 2009RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 2 (IPS) - How many men work in day care centres, looking after children? How much paternity leave are men entitled to? How many government programmes to combat domestic violence include violent...
Read moreGreek workers strike in their millions
April 3, 2009Original source: Millions of Greek workers kicked off a national strike on Thursday against government attempts to force employees to bear the brunt of the slump. Greek Communist Party and trade union activists led over 10,000...
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