Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1135
400 Million Children Mired in Extreme Poverty
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (IPS) - Four hundred million children under 13 years of age are living in extreme poverty worldwide, according to a new study released by the World Bank here Thursday.
Nobel Laureate Fights African Pullout from Global Court
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 (IPS) - South Africa's Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace prize laureate, has launched a global campaign to stop African nations from abandoning the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC).
Conserve Water or Perish, Warns U.N. Chief
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 (IPS) - Just 17 years from now, nearly half the global population could be facing water scarcity, with demand outstripping supply by 40 percent.
U.S. Suspends More Military Aid to Egypt, Arousing Scepticism
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (IPS) - The administration of President Barack Obama announced Wednesday it was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Egyptian military pending "credible progress" toward a return to democratic rule.
The Coming Plague
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 10 (IPS) - A climate plague affecting every living thing will likely start in 2020 in southern Indonesia, scientists warned Wednesday in the journal Nature. A few years later the plague will have spread throughout the world's tropical regions.
World Bank Mulls First Strategic Overhaul in Two Decades
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (IPS) - World Bank President Jim Kim has formally put forward a major new proposal to refocus both the bank's priorities and how it pursues those aims.
Syrians Struggle with a Life of Sorts
- Inter Press Service
IDLIB/ALEPPO Provinces, Syria, Oct 09 (IPS) - Free Syrian Army fighters stand guard over the state cable company premises to avoid looting in Khan Al-Assal, a district 14 kilometres west of Aleppo. Much of the rest of the place seems a nightmarish ghost town.
Building a Better World, One Block at a Time
- Inter Press Service
NANTES, France, Oct 08 (IPS) - One evening in the small village of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, England, someone started a conversation about climate change and energy at the local pub. It was 2005. Two years later, residents had cut their carbon dioxide emissions and energy costs by 20 percent.
U.N.'s Top Posts Remain a Boy's Club
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 08 (IPS) - Despite adopting scores of pious resolutions on gender empowerment over the last 67 years, the 193-member General Assembly has failed to practice in its own backyard what it has vigourously preached to the outside world.
Neoconservatives Despair Over U.S.-Iran Diplomacy
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 08 (IPS) - A week that began with a blistering denunciation by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of Iranian duplicity ended with diminished prospects for Israel to take direct action to address Iran's nuclear capabilities.
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