The Week with IPS
Here are some of the most-read stories of the past week — and stories you shouldn’t go without reading:

Ozone Deal to Cut Down CO2 Emissions

Stephen Leahy
MONTREAL – More than 190 nations agreed this week to combat global warming and accelerate the healing of the ozone layer, although critics say more could have been accomplished.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39368

The Chemical That Must Not Be Named
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39335

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IRAQ: Border Shelling Hits Villagers

Mohammed A. Salih
HAJI OMARAN – Sixty-year-old Khadijah Hama Khan has had to flee home again. Nothing new. “All our life we have been on the run,” she says.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39349

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U.S.-MIDEAST: Bush Peace Confab a Swan Dive or Belly Flop?

Analysis by Khody Akhavi
WASHINGTON – This past summer, President Bush extended a hand where he never has before, calling for a Middle East conference to find a solution to the long-moribund Palestinian-Israeli peace process. This time, says U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, her boss expects results.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39364

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ARGENTINA: Twice Disappeared, Still Missing

Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES – One year after the disappearance of a former victim of abduction and torture under Argentina?s 1976-1983 military dictatorship, local human rights groups complain that the investigation into his current disappearance “is more of a formality than an effective inquiry.”
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39297

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SIERRA LEONE: A Sea of Challenges for the New Government

Michael J. Carter
FREETOWN – A voting process that has stretched over more than a month came to an end this week with the announcement that Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People’s Congress (APC) had won the presidency in Sierra Leone’s general elections.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39338

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SRI LANKA: Consider Sanctions Says Parliamentarian

Amantha Perera
COLOMBO – As the nationalist government of President Mahinda Rajpakse continues to resist calls for a United Nations rights monitoring mission in Sri Lanka an elected Tamil leader said the time may have come to consider international sanctions.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39333

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TRADE-EAST AFRICA: “A Foreigner Cannot Develop Us”

Rosalia Omungo
NAIROBI – While east Africans still hold reservations about the benefits of the economic partnership agreement (EPA) currently being negotiated with the European Union (EU), both government and civil society representatives seem to be accepting that it is the best option available.
www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=39379

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TRADE-EU: This Is the Way Some Agreements Should End

David Cronin
BRUSSELS – Elaborate funeral rituals were performed in central Brussels over the past week to show how a planned free trade accord between the European Union and the Korean government should, in the view of anti-poverty campaigners, be buried.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39356

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BRAZIL: Amazon Logging Means Short-Lived Prosperity

Roberto Villar Belmonte – IPS/IFEJ
BELEM – Devastation, violent land conflicts and rapid — but short-lived — economic growth are the traces left by deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon over the last 30 years, according to a new study.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39328

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SRI LANKA: In Denial Mode on Sanitation Issues

Feizal Samath
COLOMBO – Compared to the rest of South Asia, Sri Lanka has impressive sanitation statistics with 90 percent of the population having access to latrines. But what happens to human waste thereafter is another story.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39344

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