Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 563
World Headed for a High-Speed Carbon Crash
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 07 (IPS) - If global carbon emissions continue to rise at their current rate, humanity will eventually be left with no other option than a costly, world war-like mobilisation, scientists warned this week.
Uganda Needs to Exploit its Own Mineral Riches
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA?, Nov 07 (IPS) - This year, as Uganda gears up to start producing the nearly two billion barrels in oil reserves that were discovered near its western border, critics say that little is being done to exploit the rich mineral resources located in some of the country's poorest areas.
Dwindling Aid Slows Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka, Nov 07 (IPS) - When the first trains in almost two and a half decades started running through this war-ravaged town in Sri Lanka in mid-September, Sinngamuththu Jesudasan could not resist the temptation to go and have a look - repeatedly.
Cracks Widen in U.S.-Saudi Alliance
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 07 (IPS) - While Monday's meeting between Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi King Abdullah may have helped calm the waters, the latest anxieties and anger expressed by Riyadh toward the United States has reignited debate here about the value of the two countries' long-standing alliance.
U.S., Iran Try to Narrow Gaps on Nuclear Deal
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Nov 06 (IPS) - Against a backdrop of cautious optimism, Iran and six world powers known as the P5+1 are reconvening here for talks Nov. 7-8 over Tehran's nuclear programme.
Uruguay Keen to Become Regional Logistics Hub
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Nov 06 (IPS) - The small South American country of Uruguay could become a major logistics hub in the Southern Cone due to the deepwater port that the government is planning to build in a tourist area on the Atlantic ocean.
Mayor Who Let Them Eat Cake Now Eating Crow
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Nov 06 (IPS) - When Michael Bloomberg was elected mayor of this city only weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, few imagined that by the time he left office a new building would have risen in the shadow of the Twin Towers.
Cuba, a Window to the Outside
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Nov 06 (IPS) - For the Cuban economy, the year 2014 is set to start with the opening of the first installations in the Special Economic Development Zone in the upgraded Mariel port, 70 km west of Havana.
The Sickest Places in the World
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 05 (IPS) - Parts of Indonesia, Argentina and Nigeria are among the top 10 most polluted places on the planet, according to a new report by U.S. and European environmental groups.
South America - From Granary to Megaprojects for the World
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, Nov 05 (IPS) - South America has gone from the world's granary to the site of innumerable international infrastructure, energy and mining megaprojects. It is now facing a new dilemma: bolstering the economy with the promise of reducing inequality, in exchange for social and environmental costs that are taking their toll.
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