Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1152
Israel Defiant on Settlements as Peace Talks Open
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (IPS) - Against the backdrop of two major announcements of Israeli settlement expansion, U.S.-brokered peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians resumed Thursday in Jerusalem.
OP-ED: Egyptian Military Scuttles the Revolution
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (IPS) - The revolutionary aspirations for justice, dignity and hope that Egypt's young people brought to the world in January 2011 were crushed Wednesday by the military's bloody crackdown.
The Angry Young Will Now Shape Egypt
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Aug 15 (IPS) - The youth within the Muslim Brotherhood may become very difficult to restrain following the bloody killings in Cairo, senior party members say.
U.S. Condemns Military Crackdown in Egypt but No Aid Cut-off
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (IPS) - The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has denounced in unusually harsh terms Wednesday's bloody military crackdown against supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
U.N. Chief Lambastes Egypt's Army but Refuses to Affirm Coup
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 14 (IPS) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who has refused to describe the Egyptian army's ouster of a democratically-elected government last month as a "military coup", lambasted the country's security forces for Wednesday's massacre of civilians in the streets of Cairo.
While Officials Talk, Israelis Build
- Inter Press Service
HAR BRACHA SETTLEMENT, Occupied West Bank, Aug 14 (IPS) - Large spools of black tubing and plastic-wrapped water tanks lay strewn across a dusty construction site. A handful of Palestinian labourers, speaking quietly in Arabic, shuttle the items to the two unfinished, three-storey apartment blocs behind them.
U.S. Needs More Forthcoming Approach to Iran: Report
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (IPS) - With the inauguration of Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, the United States should take a more flexible approach toward Tehran to increase the chances of a successful resolution of the latter's nuclear programme, according to a new report by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) released Tuesday.
U.S.-Russian Rift May Play Out at U.N.
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 13 (IPS) - When the Cold War peaked in the late 1960s and '70s, the United States and the then-Soviet Union were armed with one of the most effective non-lethal weapons in their diplomatic arsenal: a veto in the U.N.'s most powerful body, the Security Council.
Now Tunisia Begins to Shake
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Aug 13 (IPS) - Tunisia was plunged into political strife when opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi was assassinated late last month, triggering widespread pro- and anti-government demonstrations across the country. In the days since his death the North African nation has faced a further series of terrorist attacks that have threatened to destabilise a country seen as a model for post-revolution democracy in the region.
Critics Question Obama’s Vows to Reform Spying Programme
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (IPS) - Civil liberties advocates are expressing doubt that promised reforms to a vast and controversial U.S. surveillance programme will allay concerns that the spying infringes on certain rights.
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