News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2007
ARGENTINA-BOLIVIA: Gas Pipeline to Boost Development, Revenues — But Not for Everyone
- Inter Press Service
'The pipeline will carry gas to Bolivia and seven provinces in Argentina, but we who live in Campo Durán, where the pipeline starts, will not have gas,' Julio Palavecino told IPS.
Côte d'Ivoire on the Edge of Chaos
- Inter Press Service
Forces of law and order have abandoned their posts in Abidjan, creating a vacuum which has rapidly filled with violence, looting and fear. Residents of Côte d'Ivoire's commercial capital are shut in their homes, doors closed against scenes of pillage and assault of civilians, while reports of intercommunal clashes in the west of the country complete the picture of a country descending into chaos.
EGYPT: Cracks Appear In Mubarak-Era Labour Body
- Inter Press Service
The state-controlled trade union federation that for over half a century was employed by Egyptian rulers to suppress workers' protests and mobilise voters for sham elections appears to be crumbling with the recent ouster of president Hosni Mubarak.
SOMALIA: Manifestation of Stealth Trusteeship
- Inter Press Service
Somalia is currently under what James Fearon and David Laitin of Stanford University call 'a neo-trusteeship system'. Various external powers, while disagreeing among themselves, make the important decisions for the Somali people.
COTE D'IVOIRE: Pro-Ouattara Forces Launch Palace Assault
- Inter Press Service
Heavy fighting is continuing in Abidjan where forces loyal to Côte d'Ivoire's presidential rivals are battling for control of the country's main city.
NGOs Call for IMF Gold Profits to Cancel Debts of Poorest Countries
- Inter Press Service
Nearly 60 international civil society organisations urged the executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Monday to earmark some 2.8 billion dollars in profits from the agency's gold sales for cancelling the debts of the world's poorest nations.
U.N. Member States Falter in Protecting Staffers, Peacekeepers
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations has remained virtually helpless as hundreds of its staffers, mostly peacekeepers, are killed, kidnapped or victimised by unbridled violence worldwide.
MIDEAST: Goldstone's Volte-Face Gladdens Israelis, Angers Palestinians
- Inter Press Service
Israelis have breathed a national sigh of relief following the publication of an absolutely unexpected article in last Friday's Washington Post. The column's title and author said it all.
'No Safe Levels' of Radiation in Japan
- Inter Press Service
In a nuclear crisis that is becoming increasingly serious, Japan’s Nuclear Safety Agency confirmed that radioactive iodine-131 in seawater samples taken near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex that was seriously damaged by the recent tsunami off the coast of Japan is 4,385 times the level permitted by law.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Uncertain Future of Kyoto Protocol Alarms Green Groups
- Inter Press Service
With just seven months to go before a pivotal U.N. climate change summit in South Africa, green groups are raising the alarm here about the future of the Kyoto Protocol, the world’s only international treaty that mandates most industrialised nations to cut their environment polluting greenhouse gases (GHG) to save the planet from overheating.
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