Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1142
OP-ED: Financing of Disaster Risk Reduction Needs Urgent Reform
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Sep 18 (IPS) - Over 20 years, disaster losses in developing nations have amounted to 862 billion dollars (a considerable under-estimate). During this period the international community has spent just 13.5 billion dollars on disaster risk reduction (DRR), equivalent to 40 cents of every 100 dollars of development aid – this has to change.
United Nations Still Popular in Most Countries
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 18 (IPS) - On the eve of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, a newly released survey of 39 countries shows that the world body remains relatively popular around the globe.
Mutual Interests Could Aid U.S.-Iran Détente
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 17 (IPS) - In the wake of a renewed diplomatic push on the Iranian nuclear front, shared interests in Iran's backyard could pave the way for Washington and Tehran to work toward overcoming decades of hostility.
Proposed Global Accord Called a Disaster for Public Services
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 17 (IPS) - Nearly 350 international civil society organisations are urging countries taking part in new negotiations towards an agreement on "trade in services" to abandon the effort, warning that the accord would negatively impact on universal access to and national regulation of public services.
U.N. Team Confirms Syria Chemical Attack but Not Culpability
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 16 (IPS) - After an intense investigation of the military attack on civilians in Syria last month, a U.N. team of arms inspectors has reached a predictable conclusion: the deadly attack had all the trappings of the widespread use of chemical weapons.
“The Oil Is Ours” – But Its Secrets Are the NSA’s
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 16 (IPS) - Reported U.S. spying on Brazil's Petrobras oil firm revived the controversy over opening up the company, a symbol of Brazilian sovereignty since the 1950s, to foreign investment.
OP-ED: Making Sense of Syria
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Sep 16 (IPS) - Tarzie Vittachi, a Sri Lankan journalist who in his final years was the bemused occupant of a high United Nations office, once summed up with his characteristic terse wit a central truth about international affairs: "Everything is about something else."
Executions on Hold ‘for the Wrong Reasons’
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 16 (IPS) - The execution of three Taliban men ordered by the courts has been kept on hold - not because the Pakistani government opposes the death penalty but because it fears the Taliban, political leaders say.
Politics Eats Into Palestinian Breadbasket
- Inter Press Service
JIFTLICK, Occupied West Bank, Sep 14 (IPS) - In the Jordan Valley, contrasts are stark. Lush green agricultural fields and fenced-in greenhouses belong to the Israeli settlements that dot the landscape and benefit from the area's abundant water supply on one hand. On the other, Palestinian farmers denied access to their lands and other resources by the Israeli authorities struggle to cultivate the most basic crops and make a living wage.
U.S. Public-Elite Disconnect Emerges Over Syria
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 14 (IPS) - While much of the foreign policy elite here sees the tide of public opposition to U.S. air strikes against Syria that swept over Washington during the past two weeks as evidence of a growing isolationism, veteran pollsters and other analysts say other factors were more relevant.
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