Nicaragua Sees Significant Increase in Exports - PRLog (free press release)
PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 19, 2010 – The One-Stop Shop for Exports (CETREX, for its acronym in Spanish) recently reported that Nicaragua's exports reached US$284.9 million during the first two months of 2010, which represents a 31.8 percent ...
Reproductive Health in Nicaragua - Amnesty International USA
According to Amnesty International's report, The Total Abortion Ban in Nicaragua , the 2008 complete ban on abortions is a serious obstacle to best practice decision-making by health care providers when dealing with obstetric complications, which ...
Worldwide Condemnation of anti-Cuba Media Campaign - Democratic Underground.com
... Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Holland, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, United ...
Nicaragua bans imports of Costa Rican goods - Investors Business Daily
SAN JOSE, Mar 12, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Nicaragua on Friday banned imports of Costa Rica's products, stranding some 150 truckloads of goods on the border, Costa Rica's Exterior Commerce Minister Vinicio Ruiz said. "This morning (Friday ...
NICARAGUA: Caribbean Women Face Double Discrimination - Inter Press Service
MANAGUA, Mar 20 , 2009 (IPS) - The first criminal prosecution for racial discrimination in Nicaragua, in response to a complaint brought by a woman lawmaker in the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), has focused attention on the segregationist ...
Nicaraguan abortion law under fire - Al Jazeera
The Central American nation of Nicaragua is one of a handful of countries with a complete ban on abortion. Under the law, any medical procedure is banned if it jeopardises the life of the fetus, even if the procedure is meant to save the mother's ...
Nicaragua, The Largest Exporter of Beef in Central ... - PRLog (free press release)
PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 18, 2010 – An additional 10 percent with respect to the volume of exports in 2009 is what the beef sector in Nicaragua expects to grow in 2010; representing exports amounting to approximately US$270 million this year ...
VIZ Media Partners with McDonald’s for Special Naruto ... - PRWeb
In March, McDonald’s locations in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama will begin offering the NARUTO Happy Meals. By April, restaurants in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela will ...
Street kids stage their own World Cup in South Africa - Big Hollywood
Child welfare groups from across the globe brought to Durban teams from Brazil, England, India, Nicaragua, Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania and Ukraine. It's the first event of its kind, aiming to grab the football spotlight to give the children a ...
Walking across the Narrow Neck - Ogden Standard-Examiner
(UNEDITED) Last week I walked across the Book of Mormon's "Narrow Neck of Land". It took me 6 ¬½ hours to walk across the Isthmus of Rivas in Nicaragua. This is the place I consider to be the geographical feature that is key to the geography of the ...
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World Blog: Unplugged in Urumqi
The predominantly Muslim province has been an Internet-free zone since riots broke out last July between the ethnic Han Chinese and the minority Uighurs.
Little fanfare for 7th anniversary of war in Iraq
 Almost seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope.
Pakistan wants recognition for terror fight
Saying it has bowed far enough to U.S. interests, Pakistan will use next week's high-level talks with the Obama administration to seek more recognition for its part in the fight against terrorism.
Pope's Irish letter faces critical Catholics
 The pope addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal — a message being watched by Catholics worldwide to see if it also acknowledges decades of Vatican-approved cover-ups.
‘Lawyer’ to U.S. missionaries in Haiti arrested
A man who acted as a lawyer for U.S. missionaries who were detained in Haiti has now been arrested in the Dominican Republic on migrant-trafficking charges.
Newsweek: How we're winning in Pakistan
President Obama gets much credit for changing America's image in the world. But if you asked even devoted fans to cite a specific foreign-policy achievement, they would probably hesitate. But in fact, there is a place where Barack Obama's foreign policy is working, and one that is crucial to U.S. national security—Pakistan.
Diplomats urge resumption of Mideast talks
 International diplomats set goals for new U.S.-backed peace talks aimed at establishing an independent Palestinian state.
Losing the battle to keep female flesh off Afghan TV
 Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, who banned television and barred women from appearing in public without an all-enveloping burqa, the Afghan government is fighting a losing battle to keep female flesh off TV.
A child's hope for a new limb, new life
 Two months after the ground shook in Haiti, 4-year-old Schneily Similien still needs a new leg. His greatest hope is at a small hospital in the rural heart of Haiti, he just needs to get there. Msnbc.com is heading to Haiti track the story of Schneily and other amputees as they work to build new lives.
Web produces new generation of China activists
 There is a vibrant community of tech-savvy users who can easily hop over China's "Great Firewall" that blocks access to sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. They are a minority of the 384 million people online in China but among the most vocal.
Nuke deal with Russia is close, says Clinton
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that American and Russian negotiators are "on the brink" of agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.
Video: Iraq 'more peaceful,' but not stable yet
 "All the hard work we've done over the past few years has paid off," one U.S. soldier tells NBC News' Richard Engel in a discussion about the U.S. military's role in Iraq. He added that knowing his friends "didn't die in vain is a big pay off." (Nightly News)
Dutch: Gay troops not to blame for genocide
Dutch government officials reacted angrily to claims by a retired U.S. general that Dutch forces were overrun in Srebrenica in 1995 in part because of the presence of gay soldiers.
Heavy rains swamp Haiti’s homeless camps
 One of the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake swamps homeless camps, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water and flooding latrines.
World Blog: Corruption is Iraq's latest enemy
Skier, who is the first Ghanaian to ever compete in the Winter Olympics, becomes a sensation.
Minister: Sierre Leone hit by disaster hoax
A top official in Sierre Leone's government says a report that at least 200 people had been killed in a mining accident is a hoax.
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