Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1136
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.
Risk Management Can Ease Poverty, World Bank Says
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 07 (IPS) - Successful risk management can be a powerful tool for development, the World Bank said Monday in its annual World Development Report (WDR).
Treaty Poised to Cut Toxic Mercury Pollution
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 07 (IPS) - A new international convention opening for signatures this week will for the first time offer an agreed-upon roadmap by which to significantly decrease the global use of mercury while offering stronger safeguards for both human health and the environment.
European Union at the Crossroads
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 07 (IPS) - "One of the fundamental contradictions is this: that whereas economic life has internationalism, or better still cosmopolitanism, as a necessary premise, state life has developed ever more in the direction of 'nationalism,' of 'self-sufficiency' and so on."
Egyptians Clash on Streets and over Constitution
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 07 (IPS) - Bloody clashes erupted in Cairo on Sunday Oct. 6 between supporters of the military and followers of ousted elected president Mohamed Morsi as the latter protested against the July military coup that deposed their leader. But as clashes occurred on the streets, a clash of ideologies has been occurring on the country's 50-member committee as it amends Egypt's constitution.
How to Tell the Biggest Stories of Our Times
- Inter Press Service
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, U.S., Oct 05 (IPS) - What does gorilla conservation have in common with the provision of contraceptives to women? How does rural-urban migration contribute to global warming? What does city planning in Kenya have to do with coastal erosion in the Philippines?
Mayors Leading an Urban Revolution
- Inter Press Service
NANTES, France, Oct 05 (IPS) - With presidents and prime ministers failing to take meaningful action to avert a planetary-scale climate crisis, the mayors of cities and towns are increasingly stepping up to enact changes at the local level.
OP-ED: Bahrain Repression Continues Amid Sham Trials and Imprisonment
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 04 (IPS) - The lengthy prison sentences handed down to 50 Shia activists last week and the refusal of Bahraini courts to hear their allegations of torture once again confirm the regime's continued repression of the opposition.
FAO: Modernisation or Irrelevance
- Inter Press Service
Hope and Pessimism as Israelis and Palestinians Resume Talks
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 04 (IPS) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators returned to the negotiating table on Thursday, ready to put claims by the United States that it will engage more forcefully in the negotiating process to the test.
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