Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1211
New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civilisations
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 07 (IPS) - The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain reserves have fallen by one third. World food prices have more than doubled, triggering a worldwide land rush and ushering in a new geopolitics of food.
Q&A: FGM Is About Culture, Not Religion
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 07 (IPS) - The fight against female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) continues to gain traction around the world.
Bulgarian Charge of Hezbollah Bombing Was an “Assumption”
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Feb 07 (IPS) - Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov's dramatic announcement Tuesday on the Bulgarian investigation of the July 2012 terror bombing of an Israeli tourist bus was initially reported by Western news media as suggesting clear evidence of Hezbollah's responsibility for the killings.
Golan Heights Braces for More Fighting
- Inter Press Service
MAJDAL SHAMS, Occupied Golan Heights, Feb 07 (IPS) - After Israeli war planes reportedly bombed targets in Syrian territory last week, individuals and groups in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights are quietly preparing for the possibility of escalating violence between Syria and Israel.
"Drone" a Dirty Word in the U.N. Lexicon
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 07 (IPS) - The "drone", one of the eminently controversial lethal weapons deployed by the United States in its war against terrorism, is obviously a dirty word in the U.N. lexicon.
Draft Arctic Oil Spill Agreement “Inadequate”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 06 (IPS) - Environmentalists are warning that a meeting of environment ministers that took place Monday in Sweden has agreed on a weak and inadequate response plan in case of an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean.
"Pregnant, Chained to a Wall and Starved", One of 136 Terror War Stories
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 06 (IPS) - Shedding new light on a chapter of the U.S. "war on terror" that has largely remained shrouded in secrecy, the Open Society Justice Initiative released a report Tuesday detailing the cases of 136 individuals who were extraordinarily rendered or secretly detained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
World Bank Unmoved on Auditor’s Criticism of Forest Policy
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 06 (IPS) - Officials at the World Bank are forcefully rejecting a new internal evaluation that is highly critical of the institution's decade-long forest policy, expressing their "strong disagreement" with some assertions in the report.
U.S. Sends Mixed Signals on Rights in Eurasia
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 05 (IPS) - The United States is applying different standards in its public criticism of the human rights record of authoritarian states of the former Soviet Union (FSU), according to a new report released here Monday by the Open Society Institute (OSI).
Tsunami' of Diseases Waiting to Hit
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Feb 05 (IPS) - A tsunami is looming on the horizon and the world is unprepared for it. This one won't be a massive wall of water but a tidal wave of disease – and experts say the international community needs to act fast to keep it from crashing.
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