News headlines for “Geopolitics”
The World’s Aid Workers Must Be Protected
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 7 (IPS) - This summer, an ambush on a marked humanitarian convoy in Duk County, South Sudan, left 17 dead and five injured. While the UN called for an immediate investigation, history suggests the victims’ families will wait indefinitely for answers.
US Arms Stockpiles Hit by Iran War
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 7 (IPS) - The highly- unpredictable five-month-old US-Iran war has been plagued by on-again, off-again peace agreements — with such monotonous regularity — the conflict seems never ending. But according to several news reports, the US faces a new threat — it may soon run out of key weapons systems.
The Year of Pastoralists Must Be More Than Symbolic
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, August 6 (IPS) - This is supposed to be the year the world finally sees and recognizes pastoralists. The United Nations has designated 2026 as the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, bringing long-overdue attention to communities who have sustained some of the world’s most fragile and important landscapes for generations.
‘A clear violation’: Guterres deplores deadliest attack on Kyiv this year
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned on Wednesday the deadliest Russian strikes on Kyiv this year, which killed 17 people and caused extensive damage to civilian infrastructure overnight.
Cuba: Independent experts condemn new US sanctions as humanitarian crisis deepens
- UN News
Independent UN human rights experts on Thursday condemned a fresh round of US sanctions against Cuba, calling them an attempt to force change on “a sovereign State through threats and coercion.”
‘Wanton, intentional infliction of incredible pain’ by gangs in Haiti
- UN News
Gangs in Haiti continue to terrorize communities with the “wanton, intentional infliction of incredible pain” on people who often are just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Security Council LIVE: Warnings of famine and collapse as South Sudan's peace deal frays
- UN News
Nearly eight million people in South Sudan – more than half the population – face crisis-level hunger, with famine risk now flagged in four counties, as the Security Council meets this morning in New York. A cholera outbreak has killed more than 1,700 people, and some aid workers are being killed and abducted even as they try to reach those most at risk. Follow live coverage below.
Gaza: 300 children killed in 300 days of Israeli-Hamas ‘ceasefire’
- UN News
At least 300 children in Gaza have been reportedly killed in as many days since a ceasefire agreement came into effect last October to suspend military operations between Hamas fighters and the Israel Defense Forces, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday.
Green transition: Pay the Least, Benefit the Most
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, August 5 (IPS) - Inaction and maintaining the status quo of fossil fuel dependence carry significant costs. The recent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, for instance, caused enormous losses to the global economy, with many Asia-Pacific countries bearing disproportionately larger adverse impacts. Had these economies had a more diversified energy mix, they would have benefited from such resilience under current circumstances.
Hiroshima fosters hope, 81 years on from nuclear catastrophe
- UN News
Eighty-one years ago on Thursday, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, reducing the city to ruins, killing tens of thousands of people and bringing the world “face to face with the catastrophic power of nuclear war”.
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