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Portugal's Forests Losing Ability to Capture Carbon
By Mario de Queiroz
GERÊS, Portugal - Environmentalists are alarmed: fires have destroyed close to 100,000 hectares of forest in Portugal this summer, releasing one million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Worst of all, the forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon.
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SPAIN
Puppet Marathon for Building School in Bolivia
By Tito Drago
MADRID - The 17th Titirilandia (Puppetland) Festival will conclude with a marathon puppet show, to be held Sunday Aug. 29 in Spain's capital city in aid of a school in the remote Bolivian mining province of Potosí.
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EUROPE-ENVIRONMENT
Hot Air Rises at Talks and in Towns
By Julio Godoy
PARIS - The European Union (EU) is failing to fulfil its environmental commitments in practically all areas, from protecting biodiversity to improving air quality in the cities, according to official studies released this month.
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Kazakhstan Leads Battle to Ban Nuclear Testing
By Megan Iacobini de Fazio
UNITED NATIONS - The first International Day against Nuclear Testing will be marked Sunday by festivities in Astana, Kazakhstan and major cities around the world, with the goal of raising awareness of the importance of banning nuclear tests and to educate people on the catastrophic effects past tests have had on human beings and the environment.
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ROMANIA
Austerity Deals Mortal Blow to Health System
By Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - Five newborns died last week in a fire caused by an airconditioning fault at a Bucharest maternity. Insufficient, overworked staff and deficient maintenance -- results of inadequate funding of the health system - -were listed among the causes.
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ENVIRONMENT-RUSSIA
Threat To Polar Bears Worries Russian Experts
By Kester Kenn Klomegah*
MOSCOW - - Environmental experts in Russia have warned that unless urgent steps are taken internationally, climatic changes combined with man-made factors could reduce the world's population of polar bears by as much as 70 percent by 2060.
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ECONOMY
"Sub-Saharan Africa Is Speeding Towards Affluence"
By Julio Godoy
PARIS - Africa is heading towards a bright economic future, according to a new book co-authored by the former director of the French state agency for economic cooperation and released recently in Paris.
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Caribbean Civil Society Unites to Tap EU Development Funds
By Peter Richards
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Roosevelt King, the secretary general of the Barbados Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (BANCO), believes that Caribbean governments have dropped the ball when it comes to their commitment to support the initiatives of civil society.
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Chernobyl Effects Could Last Centuries
By Pavol Stracansky
KIEV - Almost 25 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident a series of new scientific studies have suggested the effects of the Chernobyl disaster have been underestimated.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
Rallying Around Mugabe While Economic Unity Lags
By Servaas van den Bosch
WINDHOEK - Southern African leaders used the 30th Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit of government leaders to rally around Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s land seizures, in a move that undermines regionalism, while lamenting their own failure to implement their decisions on regional economic integration.
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BALKANS
Serbia Prepares a New Case Over Kosovo
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - Serbia is preparing to go before the United Nations next month to renew negotiations over the future of Kosovo, its southern breakaway province that has declared independence and been recognised by a number of countries.
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U.S. Journalist To Be Deported From Turkey
By Sanjay Suri
LONDON - Jake Hess, a U.S. freelance journalist who also wrote for IPS on Kurdish rights within Turkey, is to be deported following a government order.
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ECONOMY
"Borderless Southern Africa Is a Pie in the Sky"
By Servaas van den Bosch
WINDHOEK - Regional economic integration plans in southern Africa are not rooted in reality, according to civil society organisations holding a parallel meeting alongside the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Namibia’s capital of Windhoek.
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Russia's Agony a "Wake-Up Call" to the World
By Stephen Leahy
VIENNA - A wind turbine on an acre of northern Iowa farmland could generate 300,000 dollars worth of greenhouse-gas-free electricity a year. Instead, the U.S. government pays out billions of dollars to subsidise grain for ethanol fuel that has little if any impact on global warming, according to Lester Brown.
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BALKANS
The Turks Return
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - It's not often that the leading Belgrade daily Politika devotes two of its four foreign pages to the praise of one nation, but it did so for the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last month.
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