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SOUTH AFRICA
Satellite Preparing Scientists for New Space Industry

Chris Stein

JOHANNESBURG - Though practically invisible to the naked eye, a uniquely South African satellite has been orbiting the earth for the past year, creating an archive of images and jumpstarting what its creators hope will be a space revolution in the country.

AFRICA ‘Welcome to My Taxi – Let’s Do Business with My Cell Phone’

Handheld Computers Speed Up Burundi Food Aid

SUDAN
U.S. Works to Avert Post-Referendum Bloodshed
Matthew O. Berger
WASHINGTON - With just under three months before southern Sudan votes on whether to become an independent country, the U.S. is stepping up efforts to ensure the vote and post-vote resolution are peaceful and credible – and NGOs are stepping up pressure to ensure that Washington follows through.

Homophobia-Free Churches in Mexico
Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Alejandro González left the Catholic Church to join the gay-supportive Metropolitan Community Churches in Mexico, in search of a more open and tolerant place of worship.

Following a Paper Trail Out of Homelessness
	While questions of funding and accountability shadow the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), some actors have taken matters into their own hands. On Wednesday, the Glasgow-based International Network for Street Papers (INSP) announced that it has helped 200,000 people to get off the streets and onto a path of opportunity.

Rule of Law Prospers Most in Sweden, Least in Pakistan

Sri Lanka Challenges Post-War Human Rights Probe

SOUTH AFRICA: Satellite Preparing Scientists for New Space Industry
	Though practically invisible to the naked eye, a uniquely South African satellite has been orbiting the earth for the past year, creating an archive of images and jumpstarting what its creators hope will be a space revolution in the country.

SUDAN: U.S. Works to Avert Post-Referendum Bloodshed

AFRICA: Hunger Intensifying But Cash Transfers Improving Lives

RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Activists Wary of Plan to ‘Export' Asylum Centres
	As the Australian government steps up its efforts to establish a regional processing centre for asylum seekers in East Timor, refugee advocates remain watchful for signs that any deal could result in the involuntary removal from Australia of people seeking protection here.

Sri Lanka Challenges Post-War Human Rights Probe

DEATH PENALTY-INDIA: No Noose Is Good News

EUROPE: Poor Safeguards Against Further Spills
	The red sludge spill at the Ajka alumina plant in Hungary has been called one of the three worst environmental disasters in Europe in the last 20-30 years. But environmentalists warn other waste depositing sites in Central and Eastern Europe are prone to similar accidents.

HUNGARY: Mud Leaves More Than a Mark

EUROPE: Yugoslavia Back on Track

HEALTH-HONDURAS: Solidarity in Breast Cancer Survival
	All too aware of the Honduran public health system's shortcomings and the great vulnerability of the country's poorest people, women who have beaten breast cancer are stepping up to share their experiences and knowledge in an effort to save more lives.

SOUTH AMERICA: Student Exchanges to Foster Mercosur Identity

Homophobia-Free Churches in Mexico

*/CORRECTED REPEAT/:** U.S. Jews Increasingly Hawkish on Iran, Sceptical of Obama
	U.S. Jews, who, next to African Americans, have constituted the minority most supportive of Barack Obama, are growing more sceptical of his performance and increasingly hawkish on Iran, according to a new poll released Tuesday by the American Jewish Committee (AJC).

EGYPT: Cornered Bedouin Play the Border Card

MIDEAST: But the Coffins Do Come In

Rule of Law Prospers Most in Sweden, Least in Pakistan
	The rule of law - a critical element of good governance – thrives best in Sweden, the Netherlands and in several other wealthy nations but is sorely lacking in Pakistan, Kenya, and Liberia, among other poor countries, according to a major new index released here Thursday by the World Justice Project (WPJ).

SUDAN: U.S. Works to Avert Post-Referendum Bloodshed

/CORRECTED REPEAT*/: U.S. Jews Increasingly Hawkish on Iran, Sceptical of Obama

MALAYSIA: Battle Over Indigenous Groups' Land Rights Shaping Up
	As the tabling in Parliament of a proposed law affecting their ancestral land draws near, Malaysia's Orang Asli or ‘original people' are gearing up anew for moves to challenge it.

EUROPE: Poor Safeguards Against Further Spills

EUROPE: Woods Are Lovely, Dark and Disappearing

RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Activists Wary of Plan to ‘Export' Asylum Centres
	As the Australian government steps up its efforts to establish a regional processing centre for asylum seekers in East Timor, refugee advocates remain watchful for signs that any deal could result in the involuntary removal from Australia of people seeking protection here.

Following a Paper Trail Out of Homelessness

Rule of Law Prospers Most in Sweden, Least in Pakistan

HEALTH-HONDURAS: Solidarity in Breast Cancer Survival
	All too aware of the Honduran public health system's shortcomings and the great vulnerability of the country's poorest people, women who have beaten breast cancer are stepping up to share their experiences and knowledge in an effort to save more lives.

AFRICA: Hunger Intensifying But Cash Transfers Improving Lives

MIDEAST: But the Coffins Do Come In

Following a Paper Trail Out of Homelessness
	While questions of funding and accountability shadow the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), some actors have taken matters into their own hands. On Wednesday, the Glasgow-based International Network for Street Papers (INSP) announced that it has helped 200,000 people to get off the streets and onto a path of opportunity.

DEATH PENALTY-INDIA: No Noose Is Good News

MALAWI: While the President Flies, the People Queue for Fuel