Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1174
Turkey's Excessive Neo-liberalism Threatens 'Peace at Home'
- Inter Press Service
ANKARA, Jun 05 (IPS) - "Peace at home, peace in the world" is the official motto of the Turkish Republic. Coined in 1931 by the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, it implies a causal relationship, but the events this week in Istanbul and dozens of other cities of Turkey suggest that causality can work in reverse order, too.
Overcoming “Strategic Suspicion” - Goal of Obama-Xi Summit
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 05 (IPS) - This week's relatively informal and unscripted summit between the presidents of the United States and China on a private estate in southern California is being welcomed by most analysts here as a virtually unprecedented opportunity for each side to gain a better understanding of the strategic aims of the other.
Shift in Latin America’s Approach to Drugs – from Security to Health Issue
- Inter Press Service
ANTIGUA, Guatemala, Jun 05 (IPS) - The drug problem should be tackled not as a security issue but as a public health question, with policies for "prevention, treatment and rehabilitation," delegations from the 34 countries participating in the 43rd General Assembly of the Organisation of American States agreed.
In Besieged Refugee Camp, Syrian Medics Struggle to Provide
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Jun 05 (IPS) - It was nine in the morning when the shell landed in front of nine-year-old Hella al-Abtah's house in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. Hella survived the initial blast but was critically wounded in the head, and her father rushed her to the Palestine Hospital, blood pouring from the laceration.
Quantitative Easing: Impact on Emerging and Developing Economies
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jun 05 (IPS) - The global economy is awash with successive waves of liquidity generated over the past few years by the four most advanced economies, viz., the United States, the European Union, (EU), Japan and the United Kingdom, known as the G4. This liquidity has taken the form of "quantitative easing" (QE).
46 Years on, Arab-Israeli War Still Leaving Its Mark
- Inter Press Service
OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM, Jun 05 (IPS) - Majda el-Batsch was eight years old in June 1967 when she heard about the war that year. "I didn't know what war meant," she recalled. More than four decades later, the Palestinian reporter is still grappling with the meaning of what is known as the Six-Day War.
U.N. Cold Shoulders International Day Against Homophobia
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 04 (IPS) - The 193-member U.N. General Assembly (UNGA), in its supreme wisdom, has declared over 100 commemorative "days" dedicated to peacekeepers, refugees, children, migrants, girl children, rural women and indigenous people, among others.
Palestinian Child Labourers Face Grim Future
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, Jun 04 (IPS) - Hazem Maher, 16, from Hebron in the southern West Bank, works a backbreaking 12-hour day in the fruit and vegetable market in the city of El Bireh, next to Ramallah. He earns just over 15 dollars a day as a porter.
Nowhere to Turn for China's Uyghurs
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 04 (IPS) - For years, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China's arid northwest has been the setting of clashes with the central government and ethnic violence between Muslim Uyghurs and Han Chinese.
Africa Leading the New Patterns of Growth
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jun 04 (IPS) - The old theories governing the way that countries produce and trade are being replaced. The pattern of trade is being transformed by increasingly sophisticated technology and innovations in transportation; and the topography of actors is shifting to reflect new poles of growth.
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