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SUNS # 8791 Thursday 8 November 2018
 
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Trade : Indian safeguard measure on iron, steel products held WTO-illegal (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Geneva)
A dispute panel at the World Trade Organisat ion (WTO) has largely ruled that a safeguard measure imposed by India on import s of certain iron and steel products was inconsistent with its WTO obligations.

Caribbean : Island of Mayreau could be split in two thanks to erosion (PRIV)
(IPS, Kingstown)
As a child growing up in Mayreau four decades ago, Filius "Philman" Ollivierre remembers a 70-foot-wide span of land, with the sea on either side that made the rest of the 1.5-square mile island one with Mount Carbuit.

Argentina : Rainwater harvesting eases daily struggle in Chaco region (PRIV)
(IPS, Los Blancos)
"I've been used to hauling water since I was eight years old. Today, at 63, I still do it," says Antolin Soraire, a tall peasant farmer with a face ravaged by the sun who lives in Los Blancos, a t own of a few dozen houses and wide dirt roads in the province of Salta, in norther n Argentina.


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