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News Snippets
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013
>> Mexico’s Raramuri Indians used the Holy Week (last week of March) to pray for the expulsion of drug traffickers from their land in northern Mexico’s Chihuahua state. “These feast days are to tell them (drug traffickers operating in the Sierra Tarahumara region) that we will defend our land,” said Javier Avila, a defender of Indian rights.
>> Apple Inc now runs its largest US data centre in Maiden, North Carolina on renewable energy, with majority power from solar panels and fuel cells, said its chief financial officer.
A hard rap on drugs
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2012
Run for change
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2012
On May 28, police officers and celebrities in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro joined about 1,500 residents in a race through a shanty town to celebrate peace. The Challenge for Peace retraced the route used by drug traffickers to escape the Alemao Favela when police moved in in November 2010. Even former drug gang members took part in the five-kilometre run through the favela’s narrow streets.
News Snippets
Issue Date: May 15, 2012
>> Blood-stained blades of grass and soil from the scene of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination have sold for £10,000 (around US $16,000) at an auction in Shropshire, the UK. His glasses, bought from an optician in Gloucester, sold for £34,000, over thrice its guide price.
>> US authorities claim to have busted a secret Internet drugs market where people worldwide could buy LSD, ecstasy and other illegal drugs. The ring, The Farmer's Market, operated through a computer network that allowed users to communicate anonymously.
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Issue Date: Oct 15, 2011
>> Algeria has announced sweeping media reforms to allow private radio and television stations for the first time since independence in 1962. The move comes at a time when the government is battling to contain popular protests against the lack of freedom, high unemployment and corruption.
Language benefits
Issue Date: May 31, 2011
A report of Australia’s premier statistical agency has indicated an interesting link between drug and alcohol abuse among aboriginal people and the loss of traditional languages.
The curse of coca
Issue Date: Jul 31, 1998
among the most tragic consequences of the drug war in South America is the destruction of the Andean jungle. A recent move to use a granular herbicide, called tebuthiuron or "spike", to put an end to coca cultivation has ignited a degree of opposition from environmental groups.
