Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1134
Geneva Talks Open amid High Hopes in Iran
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Oct 15 (IPS) - Iran offered a new proposal in much-anticipated talks over its nuclear programme here Tuesday in a meeting with the P5+1 negotiating team comprising the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China, plus Germany.
Q&A: Mexico and the Rediscovery of South America
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 15 (IPS) - Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, known as the ‘moral leader' of the Mexican left, said that his country and Central America "focus very much on the North" and should make a shift towards South America and its integration processes, in order to achieve less-dependent, alternative development conditions.
Giant Companies Pinpricked by 'Direct Democracy'
- Inter Press Service
ZUG, Switzerland, Oct 15 (IPS) - A Swiss village has decided to reject tax money from the firm Glencore and to instead donate it to charities. Other towns may follow, sending a strong signal to the government to follow the U.S. and the EU and introduce transparency rules for the extractive industry.
Sicilian Town Opposes U.S. Transmitters
- Inter Press Service
LUCCA, Italy, Oct 15 (IPS) - Niscemi, with its 30,000 local residents and its white houses, is a typical southern Sicilian town. But it stands out not only for its ancient cork forest, but also for the Naval Radio Transmitter Facility located within the protected forest itself.
BOOKS: Containing Iran Is the "Least Bad Policy" for U.S.
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (IPS) - The day that a much-heralded new round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 Western powers opens on Iran's nuclear programme might seem the wrong day to pick up Unthinkable, Ken Pollack's new exploration of what to do if talks fail.
Iran Talks to Resume Amid Guarded Optimism
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Oct 13 (IPS) - Almost exactly four months after the election of Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, talks over the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear programme will resume here on Tuesday.
Kurds Build Bridges At Last
- Inter Press Service
DERIK, Syria, Oct 13 (IPS) - After fleeing the war three months ago, Gulnaz is headed back for Syria to bury her brother within the 24 hours Islam stipulates. But it is far from easy to take the coffin across the Syrian-Iraqi border.
Mystery Attackers Hit Sinai
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 12 (IPS) - A period of more than three months since former president Mohamed Morsi's ouster by Egypt's powerful military establishment have been marked by almost daily attacks on Egyptian security personnel, especially in the restive Sinai Peninsula. The identity of the attackers remains a mystery.
Israeli Claim of Iranian ICBM Exploits Biased U.S. Intel
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (IPS) - In an effort to provoke any possible opposition in U.S. political circles to a nuclear deal with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has returned to exploiting an old claim that Iran is building intercontinental ballistic missiles that could hit the United States.
Swat Not at Peace With Malala
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 11 (IPS) - Back in Swat Valley in Pakistan where she comes from, Malala Yousafzai who had been tipped to win the Nobel peace prize this year, has not only left behind more girls in school now than there were a year ago but also large numbers of people who are now distanced – and even hostile – to her.
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