News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1112

  1. Iran's Rouhani Needs a Nuclear Resolution

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (IPS) - After 34 years of enmity, Tehran and Washington are heavily invested in the success of a deal over Iran's nuclear programme achieved through teamwork. Now the political future of Iran's new moderate president, Hassan Rouhani, depends on this issue.

  2. Syrian Crisis Threatens Development in Arab World

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17 (IPS) - The widespread sectarian violence and ongoing military conflicts in several political hotspots, including Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, have not only claimed thousands of human lives and devastated fragile economies but also undermined the U.N.'s longstanding plans to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty worldwide.

  3. Egyptians 'Say Yes' to New Constitution

    - Inter Press Service

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    DOHA, Jan 16 (IPS) - Egyptians have overwhelmingly voted in favour of a new constitution drafted by the army-backed interim government, according to early results.

  4. Israel Lobby Thwarted in Iran Sanctions Bid For Now

    - Inter Press Service

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    WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (IPS) - In what looks to be a clear victory - at least for now - for President Barack Obama, a major effort by the Israel lobby and its most powerful constituent, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), to pass a new sanctions bill against Iran has stalled in the U.S. Senate.

  5. Clean Energy Investment Sags Amid Mounting Climate Risks

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan 16 (IPS) - Despite Wall Street’s nascent rediscovery of green energy, global investment in alternative energy declined by 12 percent last year.

  6. Kuwait Tops Humanitarian Aid to Syria at Pledging Conference

    - Inter Press Service

    KUWAIT CITY, Jan 15 (IPS) - As Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon grimly predicted a worsening of the monumental humanitarian disaster in war-torn Syria, the international community Wednesday pledged over 2.4 billion dollars in new funds to help the displaced and devastated in the politically-troubled Arab nation.

  7. Educational Network Erases Borders

    - Inter Press Service

    MÁLAGA, Spain, Jan 15 (IPS) - Hundreds of students from Spain’s Canary Islands, Senegal and the Sahrawi refugee camps outside of Tindouf in western Algeria are meeting each other and breaking down cultural barriers thanks to the Red Educativa Sin Fronteras.

  8. Peacekeeping 20 Years after Rwanda

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan 15 (IPS) - On Jan. 11, 1994, Romeo Dallaire, force commander of the United Nations Mission in Rwanda, sent a fax to U.N. Headquarters in New York, telling officials there a source close the government had confided to him that Tutsis were being forced to register themselves in Kigali.

  9. Military Launches a Democratic Missile

    - Inter Press Service

    CAIRO, Jan 14 (IPS) - As Egyptians head for a referendum Tuesday and Wednesday this week, the fate of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was swept into government in the last election, hangs in balance.

  10. Jordan Valley Produces Conflicting Dates

    - Inter Press Service

    JORDAN VALLEY, Israeli-occupied West Bank, Jan 13 (IPS) - Israeli settler Gadi Blumenfeld distributes machetes to 15 Palestinian labourers and instructs them to cut the thorns off of his dates’ fronds. “I might be stabbed in the back,” he says, “but thanks to farming, we keep the area safe from terrorists.”

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