Brazil has launched a welfare scheme to lift millions out of extreme poverty by 2014, which President Dilma Rousseff calls her government’s key priority.
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Mugabe ally, supported by Zimbabwe police and courts, escalates push to control Anglican church—key part of government effort to stifle religious opposition
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Religion, like politics, is often a dangerous business in this country.
As President Robert Mugabe, 87, pushes for an election this year, the harassment of independent churches seen as hostile to his government has intensified.
Northern Sudan threatens to occupy two more disputed regions as southern Sudan prepares to succede
JUBA, Sudan — The northern Sudanese Army is threatening to seize two more areas along the combustible north-south border, risking war just weeks before southern Sudan is due to split off as a new country, Western and Sudanese officials said Sunday.
Almost 17 million acres of land in Colombia were stolen by armed groups involved in the country’s civil conflict—government plans to return land to rightful owners in ‘gigantic’ task
The Colombian government says almost 7m hectares (17m acres) of land have been stolen by armed groups involved in the country’s civil conflict over the past 25 years.
Protestors take over Peruvian city, say new silver mining operation will pollute Lake Titicaca
Thousands of angry indigenous protesters have taken over the city centre of Puno in south-eastern Peru.
Mubarak to face conspiracy charges in protest shootings
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — Egypt’s top prosecutor said Tuesday that ousted president Hosni Mubarak will stand trial in an alleged conspiracy to kill demonstrators in February’s uprising and could face the death penalty if convicted.
After Egypt’s revolution, malaise spreads: ‘Old days were better’
KAFR EL-MESELHA, EGYPT — The main road in this dusty town on the Nile River Delta no longer bears the name of its most famous son. Hosni Mubarak Road is now simply Road No. 16.
Gone too are the once ubiquitous mosaics and framed photos of the ousted Egyptian president.
In India, fresh clashes over rural land as farmers stand up to government
All over India, farmers are coming into conflict with the government as it tries to satisfy the country’s insatiable hunger for land for industry, infrastructure and urban housing.
Promise of Arab uprisings is threatened by religious, ethnic and clan divisions
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The revolutions and revolts in the Arab world, playing out over just a few months across two continents, have proved so inspirational to so many because they offer a new sense of national identity built on the idea of citizenship.
US to send envoy to North Korea to consider food aid
The Obama administration announced Friday that it is sending an official U.S. envoy to North Korea for the first time in two years, with the goal of evaluating the Communist nation’s need for food aid as it struggles with the effects of floods and a brutal winter.
