Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1173
Q&A: Turkish Opposition Leader Expects Unrest to Continue
- Inter Press Service
ANKARA, Jun 08 (IPS) - As protests in Turkey stretch into their second week, the precise terms and conditions that could bring the social unrest to an end are unclear, though many speculate about what would end the deadlock between the government and protesters.
U.S. Syria Hawks Can’t Get No Traction
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 08 (IPS) - With Syrian government forces and their allies scoring a major victory over Western- and Gulf Arab-backed rebel forces this week, neo-conservatives and other anti-Damascus hawks are trying hard to turn up the pressure on President Barack Obama to sharply escalate U.S. support for the opposition.
In Southern Tunisia, Pollution No Longer Swept Under the Rug
- Inter Press Service
GABÈS, Jun 07 (IPS) - The story of Gabès and the local phosphate industry follows a plot that is all too familiar: an underdeveloped town located in an industrial region boasts one major lucrative industry with high output and export values, but the local population and surroundings experience alarming levels of illness and environmental blight.
International Community Urged to Declare “War on Food Waste”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 06 (IPS) - A quarter of all food calories grown for human consumption is being lost or wasted, either purposefully or otherwise, according to new estimates.
Battle Against Hunger Lost Without Gender Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) - When the United Nations launched its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back in 2001, two of its primary objectives were to halve extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 and promote gender empowerment worldwide.
Gezi Park Highlights Years of Destructive Urban Development
- Inter Press Service
ISTANBUL, Jun 06 (IPS) - Few imagined that the symbolic act of standing in front of bulldozers in Istanbul's Gezi Park in an effort to block a development project near the city's central square would have caused the reaction it did.
Tackle Malnutrition Now
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 06 (IPS) - Between 2010 and 2012, 868 million people worldwide were deemed hungry by a conservative definition. This figure represents only a small fraction of the world's population whose health and lives are blighted by malnutrition.
Malnutrition Still Killing Three Million Children Under Five
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) - Kevin's Carter's disturbing picture of the 1993 famine in Sudan won him a Pulitzer Prize.
Rice Replaces Donilon as Obama’s Top Foreign Policy Adviser
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) - In a reshuffle of top foreign policy posts in his second term, U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday announced that his controversial and blunt-spoken U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, will replace Tom Donilon as his national security adviser.
U.S. Denounces Egyptian NGO Trial Results
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 05 (IPS) - President Barack Obama's administration and several major rights groups are reacting with frustration to the decision of an Egyptian court, announced Tuesday night, to convict 43 civil society organisations and 16 U.S. employees of illegal use of foreign funds.
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