News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1100
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.
U.S. Military Joins Ebola Response in West Africa
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 08 (IPS) - The U.S. military over the weekend formally began to support the international response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
NATO Poised to Escalate Tensions over Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 08 (IPS) - The NATO summit that took place at the end of last week in Wales was supposed to celebrate the end of a long, draining war in Afghanistan. But with the presidential election still up in the air in Kabul, NATO couldn't enjoy its "mission accomplished" moment.
OPINION: Testing Time for Tourism
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISO, Sep 08 (IPS) - It is testing time for global tourism. The ongoing political conflicts across North Africa, compounded by military action in the Middle East, Ukraine and Afghanistan, and the spread of the Ebola virus disease in West Africa have put to the test the ability of international tourism to continue to grow amidst crises.
Developing Nations Set to Hit Back at New York City Banks
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 08 (IPS) - The Group of 77, the largest single coalition of developing countries, is hitting back at New York City banks that arbitrarily cancelled the accounts of more than 70 overseas diplomatic missions, leaving ambassadors, senior and junior diplomats and non-diplomatic staff without banking facilities.
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