News stories by Kitty Stapp, page 8

WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (IPS) - The day that a much-heralded new round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 Western powers opens on Iran's nuclear programme might seem the wrong day to pick up Unthinkable, Ken Pollack's new exploration of what to do if talks fail.

NEW YORK, Oct 12 (IPS) - Early on the morning of Oct. 1, Tapia* left her home in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, took the subway into Manhattan and headed to the federal courthouse on Varick Street.

WASHINGTON, Oct 09 (IPS) - Authorities in the southern state of Texas are refusing to return lethal injection drugs purchased from two compounding pharmacies, despite calls from the firms not to use their substances for executions.

WASHINGTON, Oct 04 (IPS) - The lengthy prison sentences handed down to 50 Shia activists last week and the refusal of Bahraini courts to hear their allegations of torture once again confirm the regime's continued repression of the opposition.

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - While the U.S. and Iranian heads of state have yet to meet, the 68^th session of the United Nations General Assembly may mark a new era between the two countries.

WASHINGTON, Sep 24 (IPS) - More than a half-dozen governments on Tuesday launched a yearlong collaborative investigation into the economic benefits of taking broad action to combat global climate action.

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 (IPS) - Throwing diplomatic protocol to the winds, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched a blistering attack on the United States for illegally infiltrating its communications network, surreptitiously intercepting phone calls, and breaking into the Brazilian Mission to the United Nations.

WASHINGTON, Sep 24 (IPS) - On the eve of a possible – if seemingly accidental – encounter between U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the corridors of the U.N. Secretariat building Tuesday, speculation over the possibility of détente between Washington and Tehran has become rampant.

WASHINGTON, Sep 20 (IPS) - Regulators here have taken the first major step of President Barack Obama's second term to scale back U.S. carbon emissions, proposing first-ever rules to dramatically reduce allowable greenhouse gas pollution for future power plants.

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 11 (IPS) - The United States, which is preoccupied with the ongoing political and military developments in Syria, is still saddled with an unresolved problem elsewhere in the Middle East: the military takeover of Egypt's first democratically-elected government.