News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1072
OPINION: Bishop Appeals to U.N. to Rescue Minorities in Northwestern Iraq
- Inter Press Service
SAN DIEGO, Sep 12 (IPS) - For decades, the minority Christian population of Iraq has been suffering hardships. But in the summer months of 2014 - and since the beginning of the military campaign by ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, also known as ISIL or Islamic State) - the situation has gone from bad to intolerably worse.
Obama’s Anti-ISIS Strategy Met with Scepticism
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama's new strategy to "degrade, and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is being met with widespread scepticism among both hawks and doves, as well as regional specialists.
Majority of Consumer Products May Be Tainted by Illegal Deforestation
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 11 (IPS) - At least half of global deforestation is taking place illegally and in support of commercial agriculture, new analysis released Thursday finds – particularly to supply overseas markets.
OPINION: At Last, New Faces at the European Union
- Inter Press Service
BARCELONA, Sep 11 (IPS) - At last, after the obligatory summer break, the European Union (EU) has some new faces to fill the top vacancies on the team that began to emerge from the May 25 parliamentary elections.
Mideast Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone Remains in Limbo
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 11 (IPS) - After four long years of protracted negotiations, a proposal for a nuclear weapons-free zone (NWFZ) in the strife-torn Middle East remains in limbo - and perhaps virtually dead.
OPINION: A New European Foreign Policy in an Age of Anxiety
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Sep 10 (IPS) - The appointment of Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini as the new European Union foreign policy chief offers the opportunity for an overhaul of EU foreign and security policy.
Global Citizenship: “From Me to We to Peace”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 10 (IPS) - If a Silicon Valley existed for the culture of peace, it would most likely look to global citizenship as the next big industry shake-up.
Global Commission Urges Decriminalisation of Drug Use
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 10 (IPS) - A top-level international panel called Tuesday for a major shift in global drug-control policies from prohibition to decriminalisation and regulation.
Hamas Rocket Launches Don’t Explain Israel’s Gaza Destruction
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 09 (IPS) - Israel and its supporters abroad have parried accusations of indiscriminate destruction and mass killing of civilians in Gaza by arguing that they were consequences of strikes aimed at protecting Israeli civilians from rockets that were being launched from very near civilian structures.
OPINION: From Schools to Shelters in Iraq
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 09 (IPS) - Using schools for shelter was a natural. When the Islamic State drove waves of people from the Sinjar area of Iraq in early August, most of them members of the Yazidi minority group, they fled first to the mountains and then to the relative safety of Iraqi Kurdistan. They camped out in whatever unoccupied structures they could find.
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