Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1218
Abandoning Nuclear Weapons – Lessons from South Africa
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 08 (IPS) - Not many nice things can be said about the apartheid regime in South Africa. It was racist, violent in the brutal oppression of many of its own citizens, and was despised around the world.
Obama Nominates Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIA
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 08 (IPS) - Rounding out his second-term foreign policy picks, U.S. President Barack Obama Monday nominated former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon and his top counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan, to direct the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Yemeni Women Struggle to Step Forward
- Inter Press Service
, Jan 05 (IPS) - Yemeni women have played an integral role in the protests against ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year regime last year. But despite the country's upcoming political ‘National Dialogue' - brokered by Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and intended to bring together a cross-section of Yemeni constituencies - females still face a wall of discriminatory laws and practices, and a status quo willing to enforce them.
Major Test for Israel Lobby As Obama Leans to Hagel for Pentagon
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 05 (IPS) - With President Barack Obama reportedly primed to nominate former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon early next week, the powerful Israel lobby, led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), faces a major dilemma.
OP-ED: The Arab Spring at Two: What Lessons Should We Learn?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 04 (IPS) - As the Arab Spring enters its third year, new Arab democracies and the international community should reflect on several critical lessons from the past two years.
OP-ED: Climate Inaction Is a Clear Failure of Democracy
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 04 (IPS) - Around the world, 2012 was the year of extreme weather, when we unequivocally learned that the fossil fuel energy that powers our societies is destroying them. Accepting this reality is the biggest challenge of the brand new year.
Groups Decry Obama’s Failure to Close Guantanamo
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 04 (IPS) - Human rights groups are denouncing President Barack Obama's failure to veto a defence bill that will make it far more difficult for him to fulfill his four-year-old pledge to close the Guantanamo detention facility this year.
Q&A: Global Ban Another Tool in the Fight Against FGM
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 03 (IPS) - For the estimated 140 million girls and women living with the consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), it is already too late. But since a global ban on FGM was passed at the end of last year, activists hope many more will now escape this brutal practice.
Controversial Anti-TB Drug Approved in U.S.
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 02 (IPS) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the sector's primary regulator, has given accelerated approval to a controversial new drug for use by patients suffering from forms of tuberculosis that have proven resistant to other medicines.
Preventing World War III
- Inter Press Service
OSLO, Jan 02 (IPS) - A Third World War is not impossible, but fortunately is rather unlikely. Let us explore why, and what can be done to prevent it.
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