Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1190
High Stakes for Engaging Morsi's Egypt
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 13 (IPS) - Women and minorities should be a top priority in U.S. policy toward Egypt and its Muslim Brotherhood government leaders, experts here said on Friday, despite increasingly unfavourable public views towards Egypt.
Global Health Plan Aims to End a Third of Childhood Deaths
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 13 (IPS) - The United Nations has unveiled a major framework aimed at, for the first time, coordinating worldwide efforts to work simultaneously to end childhood pneumonia- and diarrhoea-related deaths by 2025.
OP-ED: Letting Nature Take Its Course?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 12 (IPS) - Is sustainability still possible? Yes. Is it still probable? No. With bold action today, tomorrow, and in years to come, we could succeed in creating a sustainable and prosperous society. But what does bold action actually mean?
Urgent Need for Political Reform in Mali as French Depart: Report
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 12 (IPS) - With France withdrawing troops after chasing Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) from towns in northern Mali, the central government in Bamako should urgently launch a serious process of national reconciliation, particularly with the Tuareg and Arab minorities, according to a new report by the International Crisis Group (ICG) released Thursday.
Obama's Budget Lays Out Transformative Change in USAID
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 12 (IPS) - Civil society groups here are praising parts of President Barack Obama's newly unveiled budget proposal, saying it appears to build on momentum gathered in recent years toward a robust overhaul of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the country's main foreign aid agency.
Arms Trade Treaty May Take Years to Be Legally Binding
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 11 (IPS) - When the 193-member General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for a long outstanding Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) last week, there was a lingering question left unanswered: how long will it take to reach the 50 ratifications necessary for the treaty to be legally binding?
‘Money Wasted Without Policy’
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Apr 11 (IPS) - As European Commission leaders made calls for EU countries to raise their spending on development aid for the world's poor, groups working in underdeveloped states warned that without more effective aid policies and networks, extra financing may be wasted.
Oil Flows Beneath the Battlefield
- Inter Press Service
DERIK, Syria, Apr 11 (IPS) - At seven o'clock in the morning on Mar. 1, Kurdish militias took over the only operational oil refinery in Syria, located about 800 kilometres northwest of Damascus.
Obama Requests Modest Bump in Foreign Aid
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 11 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday asked Congress to approve some 52 billion dollars in foreign aid and international spending in 2014, slightly higher than the current year's budget which was cut due to the partisan impasse over how to reduce the yawning federal deficit.
International Carbon Markets Expanding but Still Contentious
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 10 (IPS) - Nascent carbon emissions-trading exchanges in several countries are increasingly looking at options to interlink with one another, which advocates say would offer investors long-term stability, increase revenues for the development of renewable energy and strengthen corporate support for climate policy.
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