Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1146
Domestic Workers Emerge from the Shadows
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 04 (IPS) - An international convention enters into effect on Thursday that could eventually extend labour rights to as many as 100 million domestic workers across the globe, a constituency that has historically been bypassed by national laws.
Newspapers Are Becoming the Toys of Billionaires
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Sep 04 (IPS) - Few people today know that when the first news agencies were created in the 19th century, the French Havas and the British Reuters divided the world between themselves.
Broad Coalition Pledges to Cut "Super Greenhouse Gases"
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 04 (IPS) - An international coalition has agreed to begin working towards domestic regulation aimed at reducing the use of HFCs, compounds commonly used as refrigerants but referred to as "super greenhouse gases" for their particularly negative impact on global warming.
Top Republicans, Israel Lobby Weigh for Obama’s Syria Strike
- Inter Press Service
U.N. Chief Dodges Question on "Illegal" Attack on Syria
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 03 (IPS) - When Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was South Korea's foreign minister during 2004-2006, his answers to reporters were so predictably evasive the press corps in Seoul affectionately dubbed him "the slippery eel".
Splintered Damascus Holds Its Breath
- Inter Press Service
ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan, Sep 03 (IPS) - "Life is almost normal in the centre of Damascus," local resident Hisham says from the predominantly Christian neighbourhood of Bab Touma. "Only the occasional noise of artillery on the outskirts reminds me that we are at war."
Water Scarcity Could Drive Conflict or Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 02 (IPS) - When the General Assembly declared 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation (IYWC) three years ago, the U.N.'s highest policy-making body was conscious of the perennial conflicts triggered by competition over one of the world's most critical finite resources.
BOOKS: 'Delusion' Challenges U.S. Claims About Nuclear Iran
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Sep 02 (IPS) - A Dangerous Delusion is the work of one of Britain's most brilliant political commentators, Peter Oborne, and an Irish physicist, David Morrison, who has written powerfully about the misleading of British public and parliamentary opinion in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War.
Disarmament Deal Takes Two Steps Back
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Sep 02 (IPS) - A Kremlin compromise on nuclear disarmament looks as far away as ever as Russian president Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama use their countries' strained relations to bolster their own domestic political agendas, experts say.
Tourism Deserts Egypt
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Sep 02 (IPS) - It is Anna Betanova's second visit to Egypt and very different from the last time. The 26-year-old accountant from St Petersburg, Russia, is in Hurghada, the prominent resort destination on the Red Sea coast, some 400 km southeast of capital Cairo. "The beaches are almost empty," she told IPS, "and we spend most of the day watching TV."
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