Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1089
Obama’s Half-Pivot to Asia
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 29 (IPS) - President Barack Obama's recent tour of Asia was an opportunity to reenergise his foreign policy after a series of setbacks in the global arena.
Leadership Growing Young
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Apr 29 (IPS) - Fidelis Molao was 33 when he became a member of parliament in Botswana for the first time in 2009. He was the youngest MP in the country at the time, and still is, now at age 38. He has long championed youth rights.
Sri Lanka Prepares ‘Certificates of Absence’
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Apr 29 (IPS) - Five years after the end of a bloody and protracted civil war, Sri Lanka has begun its first survey of families of the missing in order to assess their needs.
Morocco Divided Over Equality
- Inter Press Service
CASABLANCA, Apr 29 (IPS) - Morocco stands divided over a proposal for equal inheritance rights for men and women: modernists see this as application of equality arising from the new constitution, and Islamists see in this a violation of Sharia law.
U.S. Calls Egypt’s Latest Mass Death Sentences “Unconscionable”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 29 (IPS) - Five days after approving the transfer of 10 Apache helicopters to aid Egypt's "counter-terrorism" campaign in Sinai, the administration of President Barack Obama denounced as "unconscionable" the latest round of mass death sentences against members of the Muslim Brotherhood handed down by an Egyptian court Monday.
U.S. Food Aid Reforms May Be Rolled Back
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 28 (IPS) - Lawmakers here may roll back recent landmark reforms to how the United States provides international food aid, despite warnings that doing so would reduce assistance for some two million people worldwide.
Kerry Draws Israel Hawks' Ire Amid Failed Talks
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 28 (IPS) - In the wake of the collapse of U.S.-led peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the angry rhetoric around this conflict has only escalated.
Egyptian Quacks Mutilate Millions
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Apr 27 (IPS) - Saber Abd El-Mawgoud began his career with castrating sheep and goats before moving on to humans. His first human experiment was a young boy he attempted to circumcise back in 1999 on the insistence of the boy's father.
Russia ‘Liquidating’ Civil Society
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Apr 26 (IPS) - NGOs working in Russia are facing more repression in the form of even tighter legislation on foreign funding as part of what some rights activists say is a concerted campaign to "liquidate" civil society in the country.
U.S.-Dependent Pacific Island Defies Nuke Powers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 25 (IPS) - The tiny Pacific nation state of Marshall Islands - which depends heavily on the United States for its economic survival, uses the U.S. dollar as its currency and predictably votes with Washington on all controversial political issues at the United Nations - is challenging the world's nuclear powers before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.
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