Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1087
Myanmar Media Still Not Fully Free
- Inter Press Service
YANGON, May 05 (IPS) - Kyaw Kyaw Aung is just 22, but already has dark memories of days when information, sometimes of the mundane kind, could land you in a dark cell for a very long time in Myanmar, a Southeast Asian nation that was under military rule for decades.
Obama Visit Raises New Questions
- Inter Press Service
SINGAPORE, May 04 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama's weeklong visit to Asia was meant to reassure allies in the region of American support and re-engagement. But it raised Chinese hackles and failed to dispel doubts over his administration's ‘pivot to Asia' strategy.
With Refugees Comes Crime
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 04 (IPS) - Blaming Afghan refugees for a surge in crime, Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has placed restrictions on the movement of those who do not possess legal documents to stay in the country.
Syrian Split Divides Christians
- Inter Press Service
QAMISHLI, Syria, May 04 (IPS) - Malki Hana says his men are afraid of cameras. "Most of them are army defectors and they may easily get in trouble," says this commander of a mostly unknown armed group in Syria.
OP-ED: The Two-State Option is Dead: Time for New Thinking
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 03 (IPS) - The recent suspension of the U.S. -engineered Israeli-Palestinian talks signals a much deeper reality than the immediate factors that caused it. The peace process and the two-state solution, which for years were on life support, are now dead.
Women Voters Win
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, May 02 (IPS) - About a third of the voters in the Afghanistan presidential election were women. That still gives Afghan women a say in running the country, as never before.
U.S. Religious Progressivism “Way of the Future”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 02 (IPS) - The future of religion in U.S. politics lies not with conservatives but rather with religious progressives, social scientists here are suggesting, with a faith-based movement potentially able to provide momentum to a new movement for social justice.
Capitalism Unable to Deal with Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 02 (IPS) - It is time to craft new politics and economic policies to address the sustainability crisis, according to the latest edition of a flagship report by the Worldwatch Institute, a think tank here.
Displaced and Disturbed in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 02 (IPS) - Every night in his sleep, Rizwan Ahmed sees his sons being killed. "When he wakes up, he starts crying. He realises they are dead and it was the nightmare he has been having," says Dr. Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the psychiatrist treating him.
Philippines Bases Hopes on US, Controversially
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, May 01 (IPS) - Amid growing uncertainties over U.S. commitment to Asia, as multiple flashpoints in Eastern Europe and the Middle East continue to consume global attention, President Barack Obama took a long-awaited trip (Apr. 23-29) to Asia, where he visited leading allies in North- and Southeast Asia.
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