Here are some of IPS’s most-read stories of the past week — and stories you shouldn’t go without reading:

BALKANS: Fallout of Bombing “Continues to Kill”
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE (IPS) – Ten years after the NATO bombing of Serbia, concern is rising over a rise in the number of reported cases of cancer.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46176

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ECONOMY-US: At Failed Firms, No Bad Deed Goes Unrewarded
By Adrianne Appel
SAN FRANCISCO (IPS) – Thousands of angry U.S. workers took to the streets Thursday to protest some major banks and insurance companies that have handed out extravagant bonuses on the taxpayers’ dime, as the U.S. House of Representatives voted to get some of the bonus money back.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46207

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Q&A: ‘Meltdown Not the Only Crisis in the World’
Catherine Makino Interviews MD. YUNUS, Bangladeshi banker and economist
TOKYO (IPS) – Muhammad Yunus, who claimed the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for founding Grameen Bank, which has lent out more than six billion dollars to mostly poor women, says the global recession presents a historical opportunity for change.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46205

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Q&A: "The Market Is Not a Deity And We Are Not At Its Mercy"
Faith Manuel interviews ALLAN BOESAK, former president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and anti-apartheid cleric
CAPE TOWN (IPS) – Churches from South Africa and Germany are critically interrogating neoliberal globalisation in a process that they want to take up to United Nations level and also to their congregations ?to build responsibility among people for what is happening in their world?.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46206

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PARAGUAY: The Lot of Domestics – Unceasing Work that Goes Unnoticed
By Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCIÓN (IPS) – Olga is 39 and María is just 14, but both of them are looking for the same thing while they stay at a centre run by missionary sisters in the Paraguayan capital: a position as a live-in domestic.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46197

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MIDEAST: Israelis Using ‘Excessive’ Force Against Protesters
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH (IPS) – The critical wounding of a U.S. activist has highlighted the excessive use of force by Israeli forces.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46191

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RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Hopes Pinned on Reinstated Justices
Analysis by Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI (IPS) – As he resumes office as Chief Justice of Pakistan on Tuesday, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will doubtless mull over the 17 months since Mar. 9, 2007 when he was unceremoniously sacked by then president Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46232

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HAITI-DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Solace in Solidarity
By Elizabeth Eames Roebling and Auguste Cantave
SANTO DOMINGO (IPS) – On a rainy Saturday evening, beneath the leaking tin roof of an empty carport in a working class section of Santo Domingo, a group of Haitian immigrants met to form a neighbours’ association.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46125

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SIERRA LEONE: Radio Stations Banned for Inciting Violence
By Lansana Fofana
FREETOWN (IPS) – Sierra Leone’s vice president, Samuel Sam-Sumana, on Mar. 13 ordered an indefinite ban on radio stations owned by the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) and its main rival, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP).
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46201

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RIGHTS-PERU: The Comforts of Impunity
By Ángel Páez
LIMA (IPS) – Retired military officers facing prosecution in Peru for cases of corruption or human rights violations allegedly committed during the 1980-2000 civil war are awaiting trial in the comfort of their homes.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46224

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