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More money for Belgian development aid

The government wants to spend 0.6 percent of the national income or 2.2 billion euro on development aid. That’s 600 million euro more than in 2008. Just as in the case of comparable sudden increases, a large debt removal (in this case for Iraq and Congo) is part of the explanation. But there will also be real extra money.
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Portuguese waves supply families with electricity

Where is one of the world’s largest solar energy parks? In Serpa. Where is electricity gained from the swell? In Aguçadoura. Both are in Portugal.
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‘Biomass has enormous potential’

Without energy-input, the productivity of the rural poor cannot be improved, and the Millennium goals will not be achieved. This is what the Economic and Monetary Union of Western African Countries (Uemoa) says in a new report.
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Condoms are out there. Use them!

On 10 December the French researchers Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier got the Nobel prize for Medicine. Twenty-five years ago these scientists discovered the virus that causes aids. Where are we today?
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Mexican subway needs to be less hostile to women

In the subway of Mexico City there’s a campaign running called Viajemos Seguras – Let’s travel safely. The initiative for this campaign comes from the city authorities and needs to rid the capital’s subway system of physical and sexual violence towards women.
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'Without Ukraine; no Russian Empire’

World famous military strategist Martin van Creveld is formal: from a strategic point of view Ukraine is invaluable for Russia. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former advisor of National Security in the US even claimed 'without Ukraine nu Russian Empire'. Why is Ukraine so important for the Cremlin? Kristof Clerix asked two leading thinktanks.
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Europe's climate policy: Room for improvement

From the 1st till the 12th of december, ministers of environment and climate from 190 countries, researchers and ngo-delegates gathered in the Polish city Poznán. It was the last big convention in the action plan towards the conference of Copenhagen in december 2009, where a post-Kyotoprotocol will have to be created.
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Sixty years of human rights: exclusive MO*poll

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrates its sixtieth anniversary. MO* commissioned an opinion poll with 500 Flemish citizens on the issue of human rights. The good news: the Flemish people are well disposed towards human rights. But wether human rights will receive the necessary support on an international level, is quite a different m ...
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Cuban journalist and author Marta Rojas

'A living legend.’ A good number of Cuban men and women could wear that title: musicians, politicians, athletes and writers. Marta Rojas is one of them.
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Bolivia's rebellious crescent

Bolivia got very close to falling apart this fall; observers used terms like 'balkanisisation' and 'the Kosovo-option'. Thanks to an intervention of the South-American union, a secession of the rebellious crescent region could be avoided and the government received the necessary fiat from the opposition to organise a referendum on the new constitut ...
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Child labour in Jewish settlements

At the West Bank of the Jordan Valley, a generation of youth grows up forced to work. More than half of the inhabitants of the West Bank is unemployed, which makes children the real breadwinners of their families. Every day again, off they go. Some are lucky and find a job for the day in a Jewish settlement or workplace. School education and dreams ...
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The end of the Amazon Forest

The Amazon basin constitutes a coveted reservoir in the rally for natural resources, energy, land and water. For both the forest and its inhabitants, the end of an era seems near.

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