Global Issues
News headlines for “Iraq Crisis”, page 19
MEDIA: Climate of Fear Pervades Many Newsrooms
- Inter Press Service
In Latin America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, journalists are becoming increasingly vulnerable to physical violence as a result of their work, says a U.S.-based media watchdog in a new report released Tuesday.
RIGHTS: Violations Privatised Away
- Inter Press Service
The intimate involvement of the private sector in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq received international attention in September 2007, when staff with the security firm Blackwater shot dead 17 civilians in the vicinity of Baghdad's Nisoor Square.
POLITICS-US: Petraeus Leaked Misleading Story on Pullout Plans
- Inter Press Service
The political maneuvering between President Barack Obama and his top field commanders over withdrawal from Iraq has taken a sudden new turn with the leak by CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus - and a firm denial by a White House official - of an account of the Jan. 21 White House meeting suggesting that Obama had requested three different combat troop withdrawal plans with their respective associated risks, including one of 23 months.
IRAQ: No Unemployment Among Gravediggers
- Inter Press Service
Amidst the soaring unemployment in Iraq, the gravediggers have been busy. So busy that officials have no record of the number of graves dug; of the real death toll, that is.
US-IRAQ: Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision
- Inter Press Service
CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defence Secretary Robert Gates, tried to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 18 months at an Oval Office meeting Jan. 21.
IRAQ: Elections Could be a Telling Signpost
- Inter Press Service
After strong polling for the provincial elections Saturday, Iraqis are looking out for new signposts of political recovery from the U.S.-led invasion and occupation.
IRAQ: Threat of Violence Looms Again Over Fallujah
- Inter Press Service
The threat of violence hangs over Fallujah again as leaders of the Awakening Council fight for political power through the elections Jan. 31.
IRAQ: Elections Dawn on Changed Political Landscape
- Inter Press Service
Despite the possibility of isolated violence and other problems, close watchers of Iraq's upcoming provincial elections say that a relatively smooth process there could be a bellwether for better days ahead, according to a new report.
IRAQ: Tentative Hope Rises Ahead of Elections
- Inter Press Service
Uncertainty and tension are running high in Baghdad ahead of the provincial election due Jan. 31. But this time fears are also touched by a new hope.
EUROPE: Watching That Space, and Seeing More of the Same
- Inter Press Service
Polished, clever and charismatic, Barack Obama appears the very antithesis of the bungling cowboy that his predecessor in the White House, George W. Bush was widely believed to be. That in itself helps explain why his election as the first black president of the U.S. in November delighted millions in Europe.
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