The Week With IPS

	Argentina Blindly Exploiting Groundwater, Scientists Warn Marcela Valente Half of Argentina is supplied with water by invisible underground aquifers, which are crucial in the country’s arid and semi-arid regions, experts say. But Tierramérica discovered that nobody – not even the government – has any accurate scientific data on these groundwater reserves. Beyond the ... MORE > >
	U.S. Suspends More Military Aid to Egypt, Arousing Scepticism Jim Lobe The administration of President Barack Obama announced Wednesday it was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Egyptian military pending "credible progress" toward a return to democratic rule. The State Department said Washington was suspending deliveries of big-ticket weaponry, ... MORE > >
	Energy Hits New Rocks in Mongolia Michelle Tolson Mongolia, 90 percent dependent on fuel imports from Russia and vulnerable to price hikes, is seeking to develop its oil shale deposits of at least 800 billion tons. The country recently signed a five-year agreement with U.S. company Genie Energy to explore oil shale “in situ”. Oil shale is ... MORE > >
	Syrians Struggle with a Life of Sorts Shelly Kittleson Free Syrian Army fighters stand guard over the state cable company premises to avoid looting in Khan Al-Assal, a district 14 kilometres west of Aleppo. Much of the rest of the place seems a nightmarish ghost town. Not far away from this town taken by rebel forces in July is the sniper frontline ... MORE > >
	Building a Better World, One Block at a Time Stephen Leahy One evening in the small village of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, England, someone started a conversation about climate change and energy at the local pub. It was 2005. Two years later, residents had cut their carbon dioxide emissions and energy costs by 20 percent. Ashton Hayes now aims to be ... MORE > >
	Somalis Caught Between Terrorism and a Border Dispute Miriam Gathigah Somali militia groups are beginning to operate in Kenya’s remote and arid North Eastern Province, an area that borders southern Somalia – a former stronghold of the extremist group Al-Shabaab. “There is a growing number of Kenyan Somalis who are sympathisers of Al-Shabaab and they are setting up ... MORE > >
	Little Girls Killed, Who Cares Zofeen Ebrahim Twenty-eight-year-old Omar Zaib, a taxi driver in Lahore, capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province, confessed in court last month to drowning his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter because he wanted a son. A few days later, the media reported that two newborn girls had been found abandoned at a railway ... MORE > >
	Egyptians Clash on Streets and over Constitution Hisham Allam Bloody clashes erupted in Cairo on Sunday Oct. 6 between supporters of the military and followers of ousted elected president Mohamed Morsi as the latter protested against the July military coup that deposed their leader. But as clashes occurred on the streets, a clash of ideologies has been ... MORE > >
	Some Rice, Served With Rainwater Michelle Tolson The quiet Cambodian village of Chouk, set in the beautiful forests of the Cardamom Mountains near the Thai border, seems peaceful. But things are difficult in this largely empty village of simple wooden houses, populated mainly by children and the elderly. The 270 families in Chouk, which means ... MORE > >
	Homeless Again Inés Benítez A police cordon kept everyone out of the Buenaventura “corrala” on Thursday after the police evicted 13 families living in the occupied building in the centre of this southern Spanish city early in the morning. “Tonight we’ll sleep at a friend’s house. I don’t have any work or money. We have to ... MORE > >
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	Hangings will not stem violence against women in India The four convicted rapists will be hanged. Outside the courtroom, the order is celebrated by crowds gathered to hear the verdict. The victim was a 23-year-old student who was brutally raped and beaten in a bus in Delhi in December 2012. She died after nearly a fortnight in hospital. MORE > >