Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1180
Tribes Keep Uneasy Peace in Southern Libya
- Inter Press Service
SOUTHERN LIBYA, May 17 (IPS) - Kaltoum Saleh, 18, is elated to graduate from her overcrowded high school in the remote Saharan town of Ubari, near the Algerian border.
Arab Magazine Challenges Attitudes About Arab Women
- Inter Press Service
NAZARETH, Northern Israel, May 17 (IPS) - With a subtle blend of colour and shadow, 20-year-old Sumoud Farraj prepares for a photo shoot. Next month, along with three other young Arab women, she'll appear in a designer miniskirt on the cover of Lilac, an Arabic-language women's magazine.
Developing World to Dominate Global Investment by 2030
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 17 (IPS) - Over the next decade and a half, a major global shift will result in the developing world controlling roughly half of the world's capital, up from less than a third today.
Profits vs. Disaster in Arctic Meltdown
- Inter Press Service
, May 16 (IPS) - Many eyes are turning north to the Arctic, some in horror at the rapid decline of a key component of our life support system, others in eager anticipation at the untapped resources beneath the vanishing snow and ice.
South Asia in Search of Coordinated Climate Policy
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, May 16 (IPS) - With a combined population of over 1.7 billion, which includes some of the world's poorest but also a sizeable middle class with a growing spending capacity, South Asia is a policymaker's nightmare.
Unravelling the Civil War Propaganda
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, May 16 (IPS) - Western fears of a civil war in Afghanistan are growing ahead of the scheduled pullout of international troops in 2014. However, experts here say the situation on the ground is not comparable to either 1988, when the Soviets withdrew from the country, or the mujahideen's rise to power in 1992, which plunged the country into civil war.
Against Push for Peace Talks, Outposts Continue Israeli Land Grab
- Inter Press Service
ASIRA AL-QIBLIYA, Occupied West Bank, May 16 (IPS) - Ibrahim Makhlouf reaches for two wooden planks lying in the hallway and places them expertly in an L-shape along the seams of his front door.
Resource Management Central to Equitable Development
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 16 (IPS) - Trillions of dollars a year are being produced through extractive industries, but just a tiny percentage of this money is impacting on the lives of poor communities in developing countries, according to a first-of-its-kind study released Wednesday.
U.N. General Assembly Condemns Syria as Sceptics Multiply
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 15 (IPS) - When the 193-member General Assembly voted Wednesday to condemn the beleaguered government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, there was an increase in the number of sceptics who neither supported nor opposed the tottering regime in Damascus.
Q&A: "To Propel Change, You Have to Be in Their Faces"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 15 (IPS) - Eighteen days ago, Diane Wilson, a 65-year-old fisherwoman from Texas, decided to go on a hunger strike.
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