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In response to requests for more international news coverage, ATLAS has compiled headlines of world news not normally seen on the front page of the New York Times. This week’s blurbs were written by Raymond Palmer, Juan Pablo Pacheco, Sybil Bullock, and Ian Rathkey.
THE AMERICAS
Juan Pablo Pacheco
NICARAGUA — President Ortega will run for his third term in November elections.
VENEZUELA — President Chávez met with Gadafi to negotiate a potential mediatory intervention from the Venezuelan government.
BOLIVIA — Government sends aid to hundreds affected by recent landslides in La Paz.
BRAZIL – A Brazillian court ordered the halt of a dam construction in the Amazon, concerned by environmental consequences.
ASIA PACIFIC
Ian Rathkey
NEW ZEALAND – Recovery continues after Christchurch, New Zealand’s 6.3 magnitude earthquake last Tuesday: 165 are dead as of Friday.
CHINA – China continues preventing protest attempts with censorship and heavy police, prohibiting journalists in areas and reevaluating economic plans. Now with Japan’s military focus on its southern islands, Russia stocks up on disputed northern ones.
SOUTH ASIA
Raymond Palmer
INDIA – In India, a week-long wedding of Lalit Tanwar and Yogita Jaunapuria is hot news, lavish with thousands of guests: estimated costs vary hugely from $22m to $55m. At the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, “sadhus” (holy Hindu men) are banned from selling cannabis, a sacred drug, to visitors: sadhus can only smoke this for themselves now.
EUROPE
Sybil Bullock
SPAIN – The peseta, the old Spanish currency, is reintroduced in a small city in Northern Spain with the wish to boost the economy by encouraging people to use the pesetas they have put away in their homes.
ITALY – In the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzanom, Italy, a newly modeled Oetzi is on display: researchers have gone through 3D images and other forensic information to recreate this 5ft 2.5in man who died some 5,300 years ago, this time giving him brown eyes.
MIDDLE EAST
Raymond Palmer
Robert Levinson, an FBI agent who disappeared in the Iranian island of Kish 4 years ago, was found to be alive. Singer Nelly Furtado is donating the $1 million she was paid when performing for Gaddafi’s family. At the Berlin Film Festival, an Iranian drama “Nader and Simin: A Separation” was awarded the Golden Bear Award.
I guess nothing happens in Africa these days.