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Each week, The World & I Online gathers news stories highlighting the lives, situations and cultures of people worldwide. |
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| Week ending Friday, February 03, 2012
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ARGENTINA: China plants seeds in South American farmland
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| BUENOS AIRES, February 1 — Few were surprised when Venezuela announced a deal with China last week to restore 1.4 million acres of unproductive farmland across the oil-rich but impoverished South Amer...
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SOMALIA: UN Declares End of Somalia Famine
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| MOGADISHU, February 3—The United Nations has announced the famine in southern Somalia is officially over, but warns that millions of people are still in crisis. The head of the U.N. Food and Agricultu...
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RUSSIA: Putin Remains Leading Candidate in Presidential Elections
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| MOSCOW, February 1—Election season in Russia promises to be stormy, as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin emerges as the leading candidate in the presidential race scheduled for March 4 and unresolved issu...
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MEXICO: Resurgent Party Clouds Future of Mexico’s Drug War
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| MEXICO CITY, February 3—The front-runner in Mexico’s presidential race represents a party known for allowing drug-trafficking cartels semiautonomous control of certain regions during its rule in the p...
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PAKISTAN: Pakistan Denies ''Intimate'' Taliban Links
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| ISLAMABAD, February 1—Pakistan has rejected as "frivolous" a leaked NATO report which claims that the country's security services are helping the Taliban, and suggesting that the group believes it is ...
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UNITED STATES: Senate passes insider trading ban for its members
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| WASHINGTON, D.C., February 2—Ending a week that began with consensus but fractured into contention, the Senate voted Thursday to strengthen insider-trading bans for its members, and in the process agr...
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THAILAND: Asia Land Rights Activists Protest World Bank
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| BANGKOK, February 2— About 200 people from across Asia protested Thursday outside a shopping complex in front of the World Bank office in Bangkok.
The demonstrators, primarily land rights activists...
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SYRIA: ''Street Fighting Rages'' Near Damascus
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| DAMASCUS, January 30—Fighting is continuing in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, according to activists, as Syrian security forces appeared to be reasserting their control over the restive fringes of t...
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GLOBAL: New App Aims to Fight Poverty
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| LOS ANGELES, February 2— A pilot project gets underway soon to test whether mobile phones can be used to help educate the poor. It’s estimated three quarters of the world’s poor have access to mobile ...
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SOUTH AFRICA: Social Media Saved Africa’s Oldest Community Station
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| CAPETOWN, February 3— When a financial crisis threatened the existence of Africa’s oldest community station, Bush Radio, an outpouring of sympathy and appeals went viral on social networking sites lik...
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