Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1099
India Illegal Mining Enquiry Cut Short
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Oct 23 (IPS) - A nationwide enquiry into illegal mining in India was aborted before it completed its investigation into the failings of the country's mining industry. The study had prompted the government to ban mining in two states and arrest high-ranking politicians.
Private Initiative Finds Garbage Profitable in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Oct 23 (IPS) - As private initiative expands in socialist Cuba, it is making incursions into new areas, such as waste picking and recycling – for many a means of subsistence, but for others, a gold mine.
Netanyahu Budging Slightly on Iran
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Oct 23 (IPS) - Israel keeps urging the group of six major powers to agree nothing less than a full dismantlement of Iran's nuclear capability. Yet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might have to come to terms with settling for an agreement which, though sustainable, falls short of his longstanding demand.
Pakistan’s ‘Dirty’ Christians Now Afraid to Clean
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, PakistanH, Oct 23 (IPS) - Like most Christians in Pakistan, Johar Maseeh did a little cleaning job. He was a sweeper in a factory in Peshawar, capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern Pakistan.
Plantations Winnow Tigers Down to the Hundreds
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 22 (IPS) - The tiger population in the rainforests of Sumatra is vanishing at a staggering rate, reducing the number of the endangered species to as few as 400, warns Greenpeace International.
Cuba’s Mangroves Dying of Thirst
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Oct 22 (IPS) - In the 1960s, the Cuban government declared that storage of fresh water for times of drought or hurricanes was a matter of national security, and it began to dam up the country's rivers. But that policy has claimed an unforeseen victim: mangroves, which normally buffer the shoreline from the erosive impact of storms and waves.
'Civil War' Breaks Out Within Al-Shabaab
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 22 (IPS) - For years the Islamist extremist group Al-Shabaab was seen as the most cohesive, united and powerful force in the failed state of Somalia. But it is now disintegrating like a house of cards because of internal divisions and power struggles within its leadership, according to Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad, a history and political science professor at Kenya's Kenyatta University.
Tanzania’s Costal Communities Forced to Drink Seawater
- Inter Press Service
PANGANI, Tanzania, Oct 22 (IPS) - The freshwater drinking supply of the coastal town of Pangani in northeast Tanzania is becoming increasingly contaminated as salt water steadily seeps in from the Indian Ocean.
The United States of Drought
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (IPS) - As the planet heats up and larger populations demand larger water supplies, the United States will be left high and dry if it fails to address a worsening water shortage.
Mirror, Mirror – Who Is that Woman on TV?
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 21 (IPS) - Carla Vilas Boas is of mixed-race descent – African, European and indigenous - like a majority of the population of Brazil. But she spends hours straightening her hair, trying to look more like the blond, blue-eyed women she sees in the mirror of television.
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