Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 538
The Race to Save the Caribbean's Banana Industry
- Inter Press Service
LONDONDERRY, Dominica, Feb 26 (IPS) - When Dean, the first storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, lashed Dominica on Aug. 16, it left behind a trail of destruction, claimed the lives of a mother and son, and decimated the island's vital banana industry.
Smuggled Medicines Save Lives
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb 26 (IPS) - They are contraband, yet a large number of Pakistanis have come to depend on drugs made in India and smuggled into Pakistan. Patients as well as doctors say these are cheap and effective, even as law enforcers look the other way.
An Environment-Wrecking Pipeline Hangs in Limbo
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 26 (IPS) - The Pine Ridge Reservation of the Lakota Nation, in the midwest of the United States, is one of the most abandoned places in the country and in the world.
Cartel Boss Captured, Mexican Drug Trade Marches On
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Feb 25 (IPS) - The arrest of the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, will not affect drug trafficking in Mexico, but it presents an opportunity to change the country's drug policy, experts told IPS.
EU No Instant Saviour for Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
KIEV, Feb 25 (IPS) - Ukrainians are facing years of pain and upheaval if the country moves towards closer EU integration – or the prospect of the country being left to "rot" if they do not, experts say following the weekend's revolution.
Hagel Urges Less Money for U.S. Army, More for Special Forces
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (IPS) - Signalling a somewhat more modest global U.S. military posture, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel Monday called for sharp reductions in the size of the U.S. Army, the service that has borne the brunt of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan over the past dozen years.
G20 Urges U.S. Action on IMF Reforms by April
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (IPS) - The Group of 20 (G20) industrialised and emerging economies on Sunday formally expressed frustration with the ongoing inability of the United States to approve a major reform package that would see governance at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) shift more towards developing countries.
Sun Smiles on a Cold Desert
- Inter Press Service
LEH, India, Feb 24 (IPS) - Surendar Mohan, catering assistant at the residential school Jawahar Navodiya Vidyalya looks thankfully up at the sun on this cold high-altitude desert in northwest India.
Swiss Vote for Work Without the Workers
- Inter Press Service
ZURICH, Switzerland, Feb 23 (IPS) - Swiss voters have approved an initiative by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) aimed at limiting immigration. The result not only threatens the free movement of people, but all agreements between Switzerland and the European Union.
‘Humanitarian Crisis’ for Ogaden Living Near Ethiopia’s Oil Fields
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 23 (IPS) - New allegations of scorched earth evictions of the Ogaden people have raised concerns that a lack of benefit sharing could escalate instability in the region and reinforce separatist tensions as foreign energy companies prepare to extract oil and gas from troubled southeastern Ethiopia.
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