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

IRAN: New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Story
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON (IPS) – New revelations about two documents leaked to The Times of London to show that Iran is working on a “nuclear trigger” mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian nuclear weapons programme.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49889

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MIDEAST:Route May Open, But Not to Peace
By Jerrold Kessel and PierreKlochendler
ROUTE 443, Occupied West Bank (IPS) – Just beyond the main Israeli checkpoint, ten kilometres short of Jerusalem, a white Nissan station wagon is abruptly edging to the side of the road. It comes to a halt on the shoulder.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49918

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DEVELOPMENT: Japan?s Rude Awakening: Poverty Hurts
By Mutsuko Murakami
TOKYO (IPS) – Japan may be one the world? biggest economies, but it is not immune to poverty.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49915

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URUGUAY: From Open Sewer to Green Parkway
By Silvana Silveira
MONTEVIDEO (IPS) – For decades, the Miguelete, the main waterway running through the Uruguayan capital, was a virtual open sewer that the capital had turned its back on, along with its past as the site of the traditional Sunday promenade in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49884

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SOUTH SUDAN: Women’s Eyes on the Political Prize
By Miriam Gathigah
JUBA, South Sudan (IPS) – January marks the fifth anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which ended a bitter north-south civil war in Sudan. With important elections scheduled for April, women are debating and fighting for an expanded role in the new institutions of government.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49907

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SWITZERLAND:Police Smash School for Undocumented Migrants
By Ray Smith
ZURICH (IPS) – The Zurich police have raided and demolished an autonomously run school where undocumented migrants held language classes. The raid came as the Swiss government admitted that its harsh treatment of undocumented asylum- seekers has partly failed, and following an announcement that it is again planning a revision of federal asylum law.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49924

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TRANSPORT-INDIA: Trouble in the Air
By Neeta Lal
NEW DELHI (IPS) – If one were a night passenger on any airline flying out of New Delhi?s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in the past week, chances are one would have spent many a nail-biting moment waiting endlessly to board the aircraft.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49919

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BIODIVERSITY: Invasive Species Multiply in U.S. Waterways
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON (IPS) – As 2010, the U.N.’s International Year of Biodiversity, gets underway, a fight against some of the most damaging invasive species in U.S. waterways is heating up.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49885

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