Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1094
When Medicines Don't Work Anymore
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Apr 10 (IPS) - The growing crisis of antibiotic resistance is catching the attention of policy-makers, but not at a fast enough rate to tackle it. More diseases are affected by resistance, meaning the bacteria cannot be killed even if different drugs are used on some patients, who then succumb.
Jordan Faces Looming and Complex Cancer Burden
- Inter Press Service
AMMAN, Apr 10 (IPS) - The concrete skeleton of a twin 13-storey complex towers over surrounding buildings on one of Amman's busiest streets. The ongoing expansion of the King Hussein Cancer Centre symbolises progress as much as it portends a crisis.
Malignant Growth: Battling a New Cancer Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 09 (IPS) - Few people in the world can claim to be untouched by cancer. If not personally battling it in one form or another, millions are at this very moment sitting beside loved ones fighting for their lives, visiting friends recovering from chemo, or researching the latest treatments for their relatives.
Indigenous Leaders Targeted in Battle to Protect Forests
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 09 (IPS) - Indigenous leaders are warning of increased violence in the fight to save their dwindling forests and ecosystems from extractive companies.
OP-ED: Climate Change May Affect Your Travel Plans – and Those of Millions of Animals
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSÉ, Apr 09 (IPS) - There are few experiences more frustrating than a delay in travel plans caused by bad weather. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this may be something we will have to get used to in the future.
New Treatments May Defuse Viral Time Bomb
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Apr 09 (IPS) - Mohamed Ibrahim first learned he had hepatitis C when he tried to donate blood. Weeks later he received a letter from the blood clinic telling him he carried antibodies of the hepatitis C virus (HCV). He most likely acquired the disease from a blood transfusion he received during surgery when he was a child.
U.N. Non-Committal over U.S. Visa Refusal to Iranian Envoy
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 08 (IPS) - When New York City was picked as the location for the United Nations many moons ago, the politically-important decision was followed by the 1947 U.S.-U.N. Headquarters Agreement which obligated Washington to facilitate - not hinder - the smooth functioning of the world body.
Criminal Court a U.S.-Israeli "Red Line" for Palestinians
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 07 (IPS) - When Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas decided to defy the United States and Israel over stalled peace negotiations, he formally indicated to the United Nations last week that Palestine will join 15 international conventions relating mostly to the protection of human rights and treaties governing conflicts and prisoners of war.
As Planet Warms, Clean Energy Investments Take a Dive
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 07 (IPS) - Policy uncertainty and plummeting solar prices led to a 14-percent decrease in investment in renewable energy in 2013, according to a report released Monday.
On 20th Anniversary of Genocide, Rwanda’s Women Lead
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Apr 07 (IPS) - When Rwandan Member of Parliament Veneranda Nyirahirwa was just a girl, she wasn't allowed to attend secondary school because of her ethnicity.
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