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SUNS # 8773 Monday 15 October 2018
 
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Trade : Secretariat violates WTO Treaty to promote US agenda at WTO (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat has violated the Marrakesh Agreement by advocating a set of ref orms without prior approval from its 164 members.

Caribbean : Reiterates "1.5 degrees Celsius to stay alive" (PRIV)
(IPS, Bridgetown)
If there is one lesson that Dominican Reginald Austrie has learnt from the devastation Hurricane Maria brought to his country last September, it is the need for "resilience, resi lience, resilience".

Africa : Senegal's migrant returnees become storytellers (PRIV)
(IPS, Dakar)
Khoudia Ndiaye and Ndeye Fatou Sall set up a smartphone on a tripod to begin recording a video interview with D aro Thiam in Hann Bel-Air, a neighbourhood in Senegal's capital Dakar.

Opinion : Mother Nature can help us deal with her water disasters (PRIV)
(IPS, Hamilton)
Almost every day we he ar news about catastrophic flooding or drought somewhere in the world.

Culture : Caribbean-American artist blazes in new show (PRIV)
(IPS, Paris)
When Jean-Michel Basquiat's paintings were show n in France a few years ago, a visitor overheard a teenager remarking that th e artwork seemed to have come from "a very angry little boy".


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