BANGKOK, Nov 13 (IPS) - Burma’s military rulers have renewed efforts to
eliminate all opposition to their authority in the lead up to
planned elections in 2010.

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 31 (IPS) - Tiny juvenile salmon have been electronically
tracked for the first time from their natal rivers in the Rocky
Mountains 2,500 kilometres north to Alaska.

NAIROBI, Oct 31 (IPS) - As your plane taxis along the runway at the Jomo
Kenyatta International Airport, a first-time visitor to Kenya
will marvel at the world class status of the major entry-point to
east Africa’s premier economy.

BANGKOK, Oct 31 (IPS) - The largest island off Burma’s west coast is
emerging as another frontier for China’s expanding plans to
extract the rich oil and gas reserves of military-ruled Burma.

ASUNCIÓN, Oct 31 (IPS) - An 11-year delay in releasing a prisoner in
Paraguay drew attention to the need for a computerised register
of inmates, and revived debate on a prison system that continues
to be plagued by problems like overcrowding and lack of access to
healthcare and food.

SAN SALVADOR, Oct 31 (IPS) - Seeking solutions for closing the digital and
technological gap and sharing innovative experiences are the aims
of the Ibero-America Campus Party, which is being held parallel
to the 18th Ibero-American summit of heads of state and
government this week in El Salvador.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (IPS) - On a recent visit to the hurricane-ravaged island
of Haiti, World Bank President Robert Zoellick declared that 500
million dollars of Haiti's 1.7-billion-dollar foreign debt
had been cancelled, and the rest would be soon be written off as
well.

LIMA, Oct 31 (IPS) - The bodies of three civilians, victims of a 1985
massacre perpetrated by Peruvian soldiers in the highlands
village of Accomarca, were disinterred by their families and
judicial authorities. They may be the last to be exhumed by
judicial order.

GENEVA, Nov 2 (IPS) - With the 2008 presidential campaign at its end,
pundits have begun to discuss in earnest what expected winner
Barack Obama's administration might look like. An important
piece of evidence is Obama's campaign team, which largely
escaped the harsh scrutiny that his opponent's
lobbyist-laden team received.

JUBA, Nov 1 (IPS) - A recent presentation at parliament by the
South's Finance Minister gave a few cursory details of how
the South's army managed to spend 99.6 percent of its budget
by June. At the end of the public session, the South's
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Martin Elia told journalists not
to write about the presentation for security reasons.