Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1131
Refugees Eating Dogs to Beat Starvation
- Inter Press Service
DAMASCUS, Oct 25 (IPS) - Acute food shortages have reached desperate levels in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus. Leading religious figures in the camps have issued a fatwa permitting the killing and consumption of cats, dogs, mice, rats and donkeys.
OP-ED: The World Without U.S.
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (IPS) - In his 2007 bestseller The World Without Us, journalist Alan Weisman describes a planet that regenerates itself after the disappearance of human beings. Skyscrapers crumble and bridges collapse into rivers, but the primeval forests take over and the buffalo return to roam.
Row over Drones Turns Out to Be Kubuki Theatre
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (IPS) - Even as Pakistan's prime minister again publicly demanded an end to controversial U.S. drone strikes in his country during a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday, secret documents reveal long-time collusion with the CIA-led targeted assassination programme.
War is a Crime!
- Inter Press Service
VERSONNEX, France, Oct 24 (IPS) - Nobody has brought this simple message to the world like the Perdana Global Peace Foundation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As the leader, Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's fourth prime minister, says: "Peace for us simply means the absence of war. We must never be deflected from this simple objective".
Netanyahu Budging Slightly on Iran
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Oct 23 (IPS) - Israel keeps urging the group of six major powers to agree nothing less than a full dismantlement of Iran's nuclear capability. Yet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might have to come to terms with settling for an agreement which, though sustainable, falls short of his longstanding demand.
For U.S. in the Mideast, the Ice Is Getting Thinner
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (IPS) - New and unexpected strains in Washington's ties with two of its closest Middle Eastern allies -- Saudi Arabia and Turkey -- have underlined the difficult challenges the administration of President Barack Obama faces in navigating its way in the region's increasingly treacherous and turbulent waters.
OP-ED: The End of the Beginning
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (IPS) - The talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries last week bring to mind Winston Churchill's 1942 description of World War II: "It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
U.S. Drone Strikes May Amount to War Crimes
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (IPS) - The U.S. government has been engaged in unlawful drone strikes in Pakistan that are in violation of international law, and may amount to war crimes, according to a new report released here by Amnesty International on Tuesday.
Riyadh Rebukes U.N. Security Council
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 21 (IPS) - When Saudi Arabia sought the presidency of the General Assembly in a bid for U.N. glory back in 1991, the oil-rich kingdom was facing Papua New Guinea in a race to head the highest policy-making body in the organisation.
Al-Shabaab Takes ‘Last Gasps’ in Ethiopia
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 21 (IPS) - The explosion went off at 2:40 on a Sunday afternoon, on a tree-lined side street in Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa. The area was a quiet one - home to foreign diplomats, domestic civil servants and several embassies - and the blast was strong enough to kill two men, startle the neighbours, and demolish a small home.
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