Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1233
Israel Throttles Palestinian Television
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, Nov 14 (IPS) - George Sahhar opens the door to a closet-sized control room, where a cacophony of wires, routers, papers, and computer screens are messily strewn across a desk.
Radical Clerics Seek to Legalise Child Brides
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Nov 14 (IPS) - An ultraconservative Salafi cleric recently sparked outrage among Egypt's liberal circles when he attempted to justify his opposition to a proposed constitutional article that would outlaw the trafficking of women for sex.
Israel Ranked as World’s Most Militarised Nation
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (IPS) - Israel tops the list of the world's most militarised nations, according to the latest Global Militarisation Index released Tuesday by the Bonn International Centre for Conversion (BICC).
Syrian Opposition Rebrands as Rebels Advance
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (IPS) - As Syrian rebels launched a new attack in Damascus, opposition leaders announced the creation of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, an umbrella group designed to be more representative of – and more influential with – anti-Assad forces on the ground.
Q&A: A Portrait of the Superstars of Celebrity Activism
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 13 (IPS) - Start a global debate about the underlying reasons why poverty exists – and do it through cinema.
Kurdish Prisoners Hungry for Freedom
- Inter Press Service
DIYARBAKIR, Nov 13 (IPS) - Five MPs from Turkey's main Kurdish political party, the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), and the Mayor of Diyarbak?r have gone on hunger strike to support a protest by more than 700 Kurdish prison inmates. The prisoners' hunger strike has now lasted 63 days, and spans dozens of prisons across Turkey.
Slate for U.N. Rights Body Packed with Ringers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (IPS) - When the former Human Rights Commission was partially dominated by countries accused of political repression, a U.S. congressman ridiculed the U.N. body where, he said, "inmates were taking over the asylum."
Q&A: "They Demanded I Behave. I Decided Not To"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (IPS) - Khadija Ismayilova has been threatened with blackmail by her own government. She has been branded an "enemy of the state", mainly for her exposés of official corruption.
Missing Themes in the U.S. Election
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (IPS) - The media did their best to make the U.S. presidential election look important, the altar on which democracy is built. But there has been a problem ever since the Supreme Court legalised unlimited campaign spending (six billion dollars this year), thereby authorising one more freedom of expression, called "commercial speech" even though much of this speech is libellous, often neither true nor relevant.
Breast Cancer Screening Comes to Palestinians
- Inter Press Service
DURA, Occupied West Bank, Nov 12 (IPS) - Fatmeh Abu Hrar Tabeel has had her first ever breast cancer screening. "It feels good to know, of course. Thanks to god, I am well," the 51-year-old mother of seven told IPS. "Now I can examine myself once a month from home; the doctor showed me how."
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