Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1126
OP-ED: Saudi Anger Masks Concern About Loss of Influence
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (IPS) - Saudi Arabia's public anger against the United States masks the kingdom's growing concern about its diminishing influence in the Persian Gulf and the wider Arab world.
Gaps Threaten Conflict Minerals Certification
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (IPS) - Countries in Africa's Great Lakes region are moving too slowly on an international plan to certify the sourcing of "conflict minerals", researchers here are warning, a failure that could threaten the entire certification process.
Small Islands Demand U.N. Protection
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 11 (IPS) - Threatened by rising seas, some of the world's small island developing states (SIDS) are demanding that the U.N.'s new set of Sustainable Development Goals place a high priority on the protection of oceans and marine resources.
OP-ED: A Global Green New Deal for Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 11 (IPS) - Eight decades ago, during the Great Depression, newly elected U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the New Deal consisting of a number of mutually supporting initiatives of which the most prominent were:
Opportunity Knocking
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 11 (IPS) - A sense of urgency brought on in recent years by food price volatility inspired collective action to reduce the likelihood of further price spikes and food supply shocks.
Christians Queue to Join Israeli Army
- Inter Press Service
QATSRIN, Occupied Golan Heights, Nov 11 (IPS) - In the municipal sports hall with an army officer to his side, Father Gabriel Nadaf, a Greek Orthodox Arab priest in full regalia, briefs Arab Christian twelfth-graders on the merits of serving in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). "It's only natural that the country which protects us deserves that we contribute to its defence," he tells them.
Closer, But No Deal Over Iran’s Nuclear Programme
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Nov 10 (IPS) - Despite rising hopes amid an unexpected turn of events, negotiations here between Iran and six world powers have ended without an agreement over Tehran's nuclear programme.
Caught Between Afghani and Pakistani
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 10 (IPS) - Seventeen-year-old Usmanullah Shah has never been to Afghanistan, the land of his forefathers. The son of Afghan parents who fled to Pakistan 34 years ago to escape war, he shudders at the thought of going there.
Secret Evidence Plays Growing Role in Canada's Immigration Courts
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Nov 09 (IPS) - Gossip and rumour based on secret intelligence sources may be all that is needed to deport a foreign national from Canada on national security grounds, legal experts say.
Libya’s Berbers Close the Tap
- Inter Press Service
ZWARA, Libya, Nov 09 (IPS) - "Oil tankers won´t get crude from this port until Tripoli finally meets our demands," says Younis, one of the Amazigh rebels today blocking one of Libya´s largest gas and crude oil plants.
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