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El Salvadorian village getting outside help with water needs

A non-profit organization, the Minnesota State Mankato chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) has set their sights on El Salvador and will be travelling to a small village in Piedras Azules to help the local community with their water access needs.

The problem is that in the village in Piedras Azules there is just one water source with unreliable water access as the water table changes depending on the time of year and the weather. This leads to long queues at the well, with some residents sometimes waking up at midnight to beat the water rush. Read more

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Mexican Foreign Minister to Pay Official Visit to China

Prensa Latina - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Beijing, May 18 (Prensa Latina) The Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Jose Antonio Meade, will start Sunday a two-day official visit to China, said the Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei. Meade meets an invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Those nations last year celebrated four decades of the establishment of diplomatic relations, which rose to strategic partnership in 2003. ...
South America contraception up to 79 Middle Africa 19

Middle East Times - Friday 17th May, 2013

Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women worldwide wanting to avoid pregnancy and in need of contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with growth concentrated among women in the 69 poorest countries where modern method use was already very low. A young Chinese boy walks past a neighborhood 'sex shop', full of contraceptive suggestions, in central Beijing. (UPI ...
General Assembly Adopts Texts on Items Ranging from Self-Determination to Peace in South Atlantic Supports Extension of Impunity Commission in Guatemala

United Nations - Friday 17th May, 2013

The General Assembly, working through its busy agenda, today adopted five resolutions and one decision on a wide range of items, including on the self-determination of French Polynesia and on peace and cooperation in the South ...
Mexican gangland film contends Cannes Palme d’Or

Global Post - Friday 17th May, 2013

MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- The Mexican contender for top honors at this year's Cannes Film festival is a brutal depiction of the country's poverty and the gangland carnage it's helped spawn. The initial signs have been good: Director Amat Escalante's latest film "Heli" received a 15-minute ovation when it was shown in ...

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Cigarette smuggling ring with terror links busted in New York

El Salvador News.Net - Friday 17th May, 2013

NEW YORK - Authorities in New York are claiming to have busted a multi-million cigarette smuggling ring and arrested at least 16 Palestinian immigrants having alleged links with known terror organisations. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly Thursday said that the 16 members of the criminal ring in New York City, Albany County and Schenectady County ...
Obama turns table on Republicans, seeks more money for security at embassies

El Salvador News.Net - Friday 17th May, 2013

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has called for more security at American embassies around the world, urging Congress to help him "as a partner" to fully fund the State Department in this regard. By seeking Congress support for stepping up the security at embassies, Obama has turned the tables on Republicans amid criticism that the government's response to Benghazi attack on a US ...
Dozens killed in Iraq bomb blasts

El Salvador News.Net - Friday 17th May, 2013

BAGHDAD - Scores of people were killed in Iraq Friday, in a day marked by several bombings including two outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba after Friday prayers, killing at least 43 worshipers in one of the deadliest attacks in a month-long surge in sectarian violence. One bomb exploded as worshippers were departing the Saria mosque in the city of Baquba while a second ...

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Energy Department gives nod for more US LNG exports

El Salvador News.Net - Friday 17th May, 2013

WASHINGTON - The Energy Department Friday gave a conditional nod authorizing Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P. and FLNG Liquefaction, LLC (Freeport) to set up a second facility for export of domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries that do not have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. The approval means that gas-hungry markets like Japan and India could start ...
Minor setback reported on Nippon's test flight of Dreamliner

El Salvador News.Net - Friday 17th May, 2013

TOKYO - Japan's All Nippon Airways said Friday a modified Dreamliner had suffered a "minor" setback while conducting a test flight of an aircraft this month, but assured it was not due to overheating of lithium batteries. All Nippon Airways, the Japanese airline that is the largest operator of Boeing's beleaguered Dreamliner, said an electric distribution panel overheated and blackened during ...
Three days after closure Bangladesh factories reopen

El Salvador News.Net - Friday 17th May, 2013

DHAKA - Bangladesh has re-opened hundreds of garment factories after just three days of closure following protests over pay and poor work conditions. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association had called for the re-opening on Friday. The shutdown of factories this week was prompted by worker protests over low pay and poor working conditions sparked by the country's ...
Developing nations set to dominate global investments says World Bank

El Salvador News.Net - Friday 17th May, 2013

WASHINGTON - The share of developing countries led by China and India in global investment is expected to triple by 2030 to three-fifths, from one-fifth in 2000, says the latest edition of the World Bank's Global Development Horizons (GDH) report, which explores patterns of investment, saving and capital flows as they are likely to evolve over the next two decades. Seventeen years from now, ...