Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1114
Europe's Leaders Visit Athens to Celebrate Their Failure
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Jan 08 (IPS) - The start of Greece's six-month presidency of the EU was marked by a ceremony Wednesday in the Greek capital attended by the EU commissioners. But protests were banned and there was no talk about the raging controversy over the bloc's handling of the Greek debt crisis and the renewed concerns about the vitality of the Eurozone.
Islamic Party Parts With Islamists
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Jan 08 (IPS) - In the city of Metlaoui in the Governorate of Gafsa, a mining region in the parched south of Tunisia, the streets are dust, filled with ruts, the skin of the men in the cracked lanes leathery brown from the heavy weather.
Despite Legal Attacks, Conflict Minerals Ban Gets Stronger
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 08 (IPS) - Major manufacturing and business groups on Tuesday urged a court here to roll back a new U.S. regulation that would soon require major manufacturers to ensure that their global supply chains are free of minerals used to fund violence in the Great Lakes region of central Africa.
Afghans Want Justice Before Elections
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Jan 07 (IPS) - Will we get justice? That is the question many Afghans are asking as their war-ravaged country heads for presidential polls in April. For, the list of candidates includes several warlords who have been accused of heinous crimes and who are yet to be brought to justice.
OP-ED: Arms and Athletes in Bahrain - Al Khalifa’s Deadly Game
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 07 (IPS) - A few days ago, Bahraini officials announced that they had “foiled an attempt to smuggle explosives and arms, some made in Iran and Syria, into the country by boat.†Around the same time, the government also contended it had defused a car bomb and seized weapons in different locations in the country.
Best Wishes for a Less Destitute New Year
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Jan 06 (IPS) - Over the past year more than 50,000 Palestinian refugees have fled violence, chaos and destitution in Syria to seek sanctuary in Lebanon. The vast majority have found themselves living in dire poverty, and trapped in chronically insecure existence.
Many More Snakes Than Ladders for U.S. Policy in 2014
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 03 (IPS) - If U.S. President Barack Obama conceived his foreign policy prospects for 2014 as a popular child's board game, the snakes he will have to jump over significantly outnumber the ladders that can propel him to success.
Pakistan’s Polio Campaign Runs Into Taliban Wall
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 03 (IPS) - The Taliban are proving to be a huge stumbling block for Pakistan as the South Asian nation - one of only three remaining polio endemic countries in the world – tries to fight the crippling disease.
Hospitality, Agriculture Firms Vulnerable to Human Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 03 (IPS) - Shareholders are calling on 15 U.S.-based multinational corporations to ensure that their global supply chains are not facilitating human rights abuses, particularly labour and sex trafficking.
Libyan Highlanders Enforce Rule of Law
- Inter Press Service
JADU, Libya, Jan 02 (IPS) - Everybody in this mountain village is seemingly familiar with the new regulations. "People other than militiamen or policemen will be fined 500 dinars for carrying guns," local resident Younis Walid tells IPS.
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