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News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1171
Pressure Building for U.S. to Remove Cuba from 'Terror Sponsor' List
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 13 (IPS) - Experts here are stepping up calls for the U.S. government to remove Cuba from an official list of "state sponsors of terrorism", arguing that the country's presence on the list is anachronistic and makes neither legal nor political sense.
Is the 2030 Goal for Hunger Eradication Realistic?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 13 (IPS) - With less than three years before a 2015 deadline, the developing world is largely expected to miss one of the U.N.'s key Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger.
Q&A: “Media Concentration Is an Attack on Democracy”
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Jun 13 (IPS) - "We have to understand that information, above all else, is a social service. If we lose sight of that dimension we begin to regulate it as merchandise, but the state has many other obligations, such as to guarantee freedom," said Frank La Rue.
Intra-Asian Security Ties Good for U.S. – Report
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 13 (IPS) - Deepening security ties between East Asian nations offer substantial benefits to the United States as it "rebalances" its military forces towards the Asia-Pacific region, so long as the move is not perceived as a U.S.-led effort to contain China, according to a new report by a think tank close to the administration of President Barack Obama.
Iran's Reform-Center Alliance Will Transcend Election
- Inter Press Service
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Jun 12 (IPS) - The decision by the reformist candidate Mohammadreza Aref to withdraw his candidacy -- and in effect open the path for the centrist Hassan Rowhani to become the unified candidate of both the centrists and reformists -- is an important development in Iranian politics.
Economic Issues Murky As Iranians Go To Polls
- Inter Press Service
TEHRAN, Iran, Jun 12 (IPS) - Talking to ordinary people in Neishabour and Tehran about Iran's June 14 presidential election, economic issues seem foremost on their minds. But whom they will vote for is based on vague promises to pull the economy out of its deep crisis rather than well-defined economic programs.
"Carbon Farming" Makes Waves at Stalled Bonn Talks
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 12 (IPS) - U.N. climate talks have largely stalled with the suspension of one of three negotiating tracks at a key mid-year session in Bonn, Germany.
Scales Tip Towards Women in Jewish Religious Rights Struggle
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Jun 12 (IPS) - The struggle for gender equality and Jewish pluralism took a highly symbolic turn on Sunday at the Western Wall, Judaism's most revered site and emblem of unity, as a group of women known as "Women of the Wall" prayed legally and in a way they saw fit.
Cairo’s Poor Convert Kitchen Waste Into Fuel Savings
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Jun 12 (IPS) - The bio-gas digester on the roof of Hussein Farag's apartment in one of Cairo's poorest districts provides a daily supply of cooking gas produced from the kitchen waste his family would otherwise discard in plastic bags or empty into the clogged sewer below his building.
Globe Less Peaceful Than Five Years Ago – Report
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) - The world - especially the Greater Middle East – has become less peaceful than it was five years ago, according to the 2013 edition of the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) released here Tuesday by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP).
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