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Global development podcast transcript: what's at stake at the G8?	24.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Hugh Muir and a panel of guests answer your G8-related questions in front of a live audience • Listen to the podcast HM: Hugh Muir JF: Jamie Forsyth RB: Ruth Bergan JD: Jamie Drummond LE: Larry Elliott HM Hello and welcome to this special edition of the Global development podcast. I'm Hugh Muir and we're coming to you from the Guardian in King's Cross, London. We have a live audience, we have an august panel and we have your questions with which to quiz that august panel. Now we're talking about the G8 summit on the 17th and 18th June. There have been 30 years of G8s and the last of them in the UK in 2005 was held as one of the most productive ever; not least because the EU members committed to a foreign aid target of 0.7% by 2015. This time, David Cameron is demanding bold steps, but what's realistic? What can the G8 do to help developing countries? What should it do? And what's likely to happen? Big questions – luckily, I don't have to answer them because we have ...
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Drumbeat: May 24, 2013	24.5.2013	The Oil Drum
Crude Landlocked as Canadians Join U.S. to Halt Pipelines British Columbia, the Canadian province whose official slogan to its own beauty is “Super, Natural,” is invoking another saying: “No more supertankers.” That’s potentially big trouble in a nation where oil exports amount to $73 billion annually and the industry employs more than 550,000 workers. It’s also a bad omen for nations, notably China, that have invested billions in Canadian oil projects with expectations that they will one day be able to buy vast quantities of heavy Canadian crude. The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the eighth time congressional Republicans have advanced a measure promoting the project. Democrats called yesterday’s vote in the Republican-controlled chamber a largely symbolic effort to score political points because the bill was unlikely to become law. The Senate, where Democrats have the majority, isn’t considering similar legislation, and President ...
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India Ink: Unique ID Program Introduces Instant Verification Services	24.5.2013	International Herald Tribune Asia Pacific
India Ink: Unique ID Program Introduces Instant Verification Services
Diabetes in India rising, with women at a particular disadvantage	24.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Indian women with diabetes still play 'caretaker role' in the family and prioritise the health of others above their own The disease itself may not discriminate on the basis of gender, but when it comes to healthcare for patients with diabetes, women in India find themselves at a disadvantage compared with men. This is the conclusion of a study, Impact of Gender on Care of Type 2 Diabetes in Varkala, Kerala, which analysed gender roles, norms and values in a household and found women patients to be more vulnerable. This vulnerability influences all phases of diabetic care, according to the paper by Dr Mini P Mani at the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies ( AMCHSS ) in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the southern state of Kerala. Even when they suffer from diabetes, women cannot abandon the "caretaker role" in the family and have to continue to prioritise the health of other family members above their own, the study found. Inequitable access to resources prevents ...
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Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral	24.5.2013	AP Top News
OGIDI, Nigeria (AP) -- Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticize those he felt ruined his country. On Thursday, however, the lawmakers and the country's elite came to praise him....
Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral	24.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
HTC managers depart as revenues dwindle and First delayed in UK	24.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Widespread departures in Asia, Europe and US lead former staffer to suggest friends there should 'just quit. Leave now' - as Everything Everywhere delays HTC First launch Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC has seen an exodus of top managers as the company struggles to stay profitable amid falling revenues. Key figures including the chief product officer Kouji Koudera, Asian chief executive Lennard Hoornik, director of global communications Jason Gordon and five other senior staff have departed in recent months. In another blow to the company, Facebook has delayed the European launch of the HTC "First" - the first and so far only phone to incorporate its "Home" app which takes over the Android home screen - following disappointing sales in the US which saw it axed after only a few weeks on sale. With HTC's monthly revenues for the first four months of 2013 at under two-thirds of that for the same period in 2012, and first-quarter operating profits down by 99%, the company is struggling to ...
Document: Text of Obama speech on counterterrorism, May 23, 2013	24.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: National News
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's speech on the fight against terrorism at the National Defense University, as provided by the White House: ------ It's an honor to return to the National Defense University.
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Text of President Barack Obama speech on fight against terrorism	24.5.2013	Star Tribune: Politics

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India Ink: What the Congress-Led Government Thinks It Got Right	23.5.2013	NY Times: Asia-Pacific
India Ink: What the Congress-Led Government Thinks It Got Right
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President Barack Obama's speech at National Defense University – full text	23.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Remarks of President Barack Obama, as prepared for delivery and entitled: The Future of our Fight against Terrorism Prepared remarks of President Barack Obama, before delivery. It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791– standing guard in the early days of the Republic, and contemplating the future of warfare here in the 21st century. For over two centuries, the United States has been bound together by founding documents that defined who we are as Americans, and served as our compass through every type of change. Matters of war and peace are no different. Americans are deeply ambivalent about war, but having fought for our independence, we know that a price must be paid for freedom. From the Civil War, to our struggle against fascism, and through the long, twilight struggle of the Cold War, battlefields have changed, and technology has evolved. But our commitment to Constitutional principles has weathered ...
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Soaring food prices make money top concern over love and status – report	23.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Oxfam and IDS report looks at hidden social costs of high food prices, including domestic violence, and substance abuse The high food prices of the past five years have become normal and are now changing people's priorities, says a study of consumers in 10 countries. Not only is money assuming greater significance in people's lives – "often at the expense of other factors such as social status, relationships, love and values" – but social needs are changing as women who once remained at home are entering the job market, says the report (pdf) from Oxfam and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). The study of rural and urban consumers in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Zambia, Bolivia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam found that the failure of wages to keep pace with rising food prices is putting immense strain on families and communities, with increased levels of domestic violence, and alcohol and drug abuse. "Many people are earning more, but this is ...
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Nine Ways That The Markup Improved The Senate Immigration Bill	22.5.2013	Think Progres
Nine Ways That The Markup Improved The Senate Immigration Bill
Midday open thread	22.5.2013	Daily Kos
Yes, “race” is a social construct when we define it as “white”, “black,” “Asian” or, even more ludicrously, “Hispanic.” But why then does the overwhelming data show IQ as varying in statistically significant amounts between these completely arbitrary racially constructed populations? Tim F. suggests he stop embarrassing himself: These concepts of ‘race’ are indeed social constructs. Sub-Saharan Africa has more genetic diversity than the rest of the world combined. ‘Hispanics’ can come from a lot of different places. If IQ tracks very well with a social construct and poorly with genetics, the default hypothesis ought to be that the collective IQ disparity is also a social construct. Sticking with a more complicated hypothesis makes you look less like the rational person in the room and more like a retrograde Tory clinging to the racialist baggage of the British Empire. The conflict between electric utilities and distributed energy — mainly rooftop solar panels — is heating up. It’s heating ...
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Climate change isn't AN issue, it's THE issue	19.5.2013	Daily Kos
Home In 2005, the British government asked Stern to lead a team of economists in preparing a review of the economic impacts of climate change. The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change is the seminal work on the issue, and it is an overwhelming read. But he now says it is dated. He now says it underestimated the dangers and the damages. Last week, he succinctly summarized his new understanding of the depth and intensity of the climate crisis: It is increasingly likely that hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homelands in the near future as a result of global warming. "When temperatures rise to that level, we will have disrupted weather patterns and spreading deserts," he said. "Hundreds of millions of people will be forced to leave their homelands because their crops and animals will have died. The trouble will come when they try to migrate into new lands, however. That will bring them into armed conflict with people already living there. Nor will it be ...
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Is Kagame Africa's Lincoln or a tyrant exploiting Rwanda's tragic history?	19.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
In the second part of his special report, Chris McGreal meets President Paul Kagame in Kigali – and finds him angry Paul Kagame is angrier than I've ever seen him. Rwanda's president is famously direct with his critics. His contempt for governments he's crossed swords with, led by the French, is only marginally less vitriolic than his view of human-rights groups daring to lecture him, the rebel leader whose army put a stop to the 1994 genocide of 800,0000 Tutsis. But now even friends are regarded with suspicion to the point of hostility. Take London and Washington accusing Rwanda of perpetuating the interminable and bloody conflict across the border in Congo and flagging up concerns that Kagame is constructing a de-facto one-party state. They are hypocrites, blind to their own histories, says Rwanda's president. "Who are these gods who police others for their rights?" he says in an interview with the Observer at the presidential office in Kigali. "One of the things I live for is to ...
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Polish orphans provide unlikely lessons in thriving	18.5.2013	Washington Post: Op-Eds
WELLINGTON, New Zealand A fish restaurant in New Zealand seemed an odd place to discuss a war that took place several thousand miles away and several decades ago, but there we were: Sea bream was served, sauvignon blanc was poured, the rain drummed down outside and I listened while three septuagenarians smiled, laughed and told me of the unimaginable tragedy they had lived through as children. ...
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India Ink: Why Indian Elites Like to Call Themselves ‘Middle Class’	17.5.2013	NYT > World
India Ink: Why Indian Elites Like to Call Themselves ‘Middle Class’
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Working with Chinese contractors	17.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
There are many generalisations about 'the Chinese' in Africa, but what's it really like to work with them? Les Roopanarine speaks with those who study China's impact on African development In 1965, archaeologists unearthed an exquisite bronze sword from a tomb in north China's Hebei province. An inscription on the twin-bladed weapon suggested it had once been the property of King Goujian of Yue, famed for avenging defeat and imprisonment by the neighbouring state of Wu after a decade spent in ascetic contemplation of his ignominy. A symbol of resurgent state power, the sword featured prominently in an exhibition of military relics staged during the Beijing Olympics. Yet its authenticity has been questioned by experts and enthusiasts, sparking lively debate. The sword of Goujian is not the only double-edged embodiment of revitalised Chinese power at the centre of modern controversy. As post-Mao China has risen inexorably to become the world's second largest economy , so Chinese contractors ...
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Indian circuses struggle to adapt after court bans	17.5.2013	AP Business
MUMBAI, India (AP) -- In the early morning heat and dust, daily practice at the Rambo Circus is in full swing. A trapeze creaks as two performers perfect their throws. A Colombian daredevil shouts to his colleagues scrambling atop a giant set of spinning wheels called the Ring of Death....
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