Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1186
Leave It in the Ground, Climate Activists Demand
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Apr 28 (IPS) - Nearly 70 percent of known reserves of oil, gas and coal must remain in the ground to avoid dangerous climate change. So why did the energy industry spend 674 billion dollars in 2012 looking for more?
U.N. Task Force Purges Stigmas on Sexual Rights
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 26 (IPS) - Ishita Chaudhry spent the past 36 hours listening to U.N. delegates discuss population growth and development. She noticed that on "controversial" topics, such as sexual and reproductive rights, young people's voices often get lost.
Spring Makes it Worse for Egypt’s Shias
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Apr 26 (IPS) - The mob that surrounded the home of Mohamed Nour, an Egyptian Shia living in Cairo's Bab El-Shaariya district, claimed it was on a mission to "inoculate" Egypt against Shia religious beliefs. Without intervention, Shia doctrine would spread across Egypt "like a cancer," they had warned.
White House Letter Fuels U.S. Involvement in Syria Debate
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 26 (IPS) - A White House letter Thursday to Congressional leaders suggesting chemical weapons use by the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad has reignited debate about direct U.S. military involvement in the war-torn country.
Cell Phones Yes, Toilets No, World Body Laments
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 25 (IPS) - Speaking of the widespread sanitation crisis, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson was quick to produce staggering numbers: of the world's seven billion people, about six billion have mobile phones but only about 4.5 billion have access to toilets.
U.S. Proposal Would Require Labelling on Genetically Modified Foods
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 24 (IPS) - A decades-long push to require the labelling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients in the United States received a significant boost Wednesday, when bipartisan bills on the issue were simultaneously proposed in the House and Senate.
BOOKS: A History of the Search for Justice in the Middle East
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 24 (IPS) - It's no wonder that Egypt has floundered in its efforts to create a more democratic system from the ruins of the Mubarak regime.
Krill Super-Trawlers Pushing Penguins Toward Extinction
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Apr 24 (IPS) - Everyone loves penguins, but few will know today is World Penguin Day. Fewer still are those who know penguins are threatened with extinction by climate change and giant fishing trawlers from Europe and Asia stalking the oceans around Antarctica.
U.S., Others Wrangle over Future Arctic Governance
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 24 (IPS) - With climate change rapidly opening up new opportunities for shipping and resource extraction across the once permanently frozen Arctic, the United States and other northern countries are being compelled to re-examine their policies, both national and collective, towards this region of growing geostrategic importance.
Palestinians Fight Unlawful Deportation
- Inter Press Service
ABEYAT, Occupied West Bank, Apr 24 (IPS) - Hind Ibrahim Abeyat has spent most of her life separated from her father. "Every house in Palestine has something – someone in prison, a martyr," the 19-year-old told IPS from her family home in Abeyat village, near Bethlehem.
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