Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1106
Myanmar Ethnic Strife Spills Over to Malaysia
- Inter Press Service
SINGAPORE, Feb 20 (IPS) - Two Myanmar Buddhist politicians who were visiting Malaysia narrowly escaped a late night assassination attempt outside a leading shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur this month. The incident has raised fears of an overseas spillover of the religious violence that has engulfed their state of Rakhine in recent years.
Chagos Islanders ‘Will Not Give Up’ Fight to Return Home
- Inter Press Service
PORT LOUIS, Feb 20 (IPS) - "The Marine Protected Area (MPA) created around the Chagos archipelago is a new obstacle that the British government has placed in our path to prevent us from going back to our homeland," claims Olivier Bancoult, leader of the Chagos Refugees Group (CRG).
U.N. Focuses on Faltering Goals: Water, Sanitation, Energy
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 19 (IPS) - When the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their deadline in 2015, there will still be a critical setback: millions of people in the developing world without full access to safe drinking water, proper sanitation and electricity in their homes.
‘No Way Back’ for Kiev Protesters
- Inter Press Service
KIEV, Feb 19 (IPS) - Bloody clashes that have left more than a score dead and more than a 1,000 injured in the Ukrainian capital could continue for weeks. Local people say there is now "no way back" for either side in what has become the worst crisis in the country's post-Soviet history.
Students Take On the Army
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb 17 (IPS) - Disturbed by civilian casualties and moved by the plight of people living like refugees in their own country, students from Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) are demanding an end to army operations against militants on their native soil.
Refugees Ski Too, in Iraq
- Inter Press Service
PENJWIN, Iraqi Kurdistan, Feb 16 (IPS) - No one here has heard of the Sochi Winter Olympics. But the snow conditions are perfect in these Kurdish mountains of Iraq and 11-year-old Syrian refugee Hassan Khishman is thrilled to glide on skis for the first time.
European Ruling Ignites Freedom Debate
- Inter Press Service
BERN, Switzerland, Feb 15 (IPS) - A ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in relation to a Turkish national has kicked up a new row on anti-racism legislation.
Abolitionists Want to Set a Deadline for Nuclear Ban
- Inter Press Service
NUEVO VALLARTA, Feb 15 (IPS) - Countries in favour of nuclear disarmament have reached the point where they are ready to set a date for the start of formal negotiations to eliminate nuclear weapons, a decision that could be taken in Austria at the end of this year.
Growing Inequality Mars 20 Years of Women's Progress
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 14 (IPS) - As the world moves closer to the 2015 end mark of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a new U.N. report illuminates how far global society has come, but also how far it still must travel to achieve its objectives.
Nuclear Weapons Leave Unspeakable Legacy
- Inter Press Service
NUEVO VALLARTA, Mexico, Feb 14 (IPS) - For decades, Yasuaki Yamashita kept secret his experiences as a survivor of the nuclear attack launched by the United States on the Japanese city of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945.
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