Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1238
Q&A: "There Is No National Boundary for Medical Care"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 23 (IPS) - For millions of people in developing countries, having cataracts means permanently impaired vision or even blindness. While treatment can fix the problem, the cost is well beyond most sufferers' reach.
Christians Worry Over a Future in Egypt
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 23 (IPS) - The tranquil, green, upper class Cairo suburb Maadi is a bubble of privilege separated from the city’s noisier, dirtier and overcrowded suburbs where working class Egyptians struggle to make ends meet and where Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has established a strong following.
Amidst Controversy, World Bank to Review Influential Rankings
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (IPS) - The World Bank released its 10th annual Doing Business report on Monday, using the occasion to track business- and investment-friendly reforms put in place around the world over the past decade.
U.S.: 50th Anniversary of Cuban Missile Crisis Offers Lessons for Iran
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (IPS) - It was exactly 50 years ago when then-President John F. Kennedy took to the airwaves to inform the world that the Soviet Union was introducing nuclear-armed missiles into Cuba and that he had ordered a blockade of the island - and would consider stronger action - to force their removal.
Palau Proves Sharks Worth More Alive Than Dead
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 22 (IPS) - Sharks have a safe haven the size of France, and the Republic of Palau that protects them is making millions of dollars from shark tourism.
Bombing Leaves Lebanon Shaken
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Oct 21 (IPS) - The assassination of Lebanon’s top security official on Friday not only ravaged a quiet Beirut neighbourhood but also shattered the precarious sense of security many Lebanese have been desperately clinging to in recent months.
Pill Fails to Cure Occupation
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Oct 21 (IPS) - It’s being taken as an antidote to the stresses of Occupation. But the prevalence of the painkiller Tramadol in the Gaza Strip has more to do with its ease of availability than its singular effectiveness as a reality-numbing substance.
Injured Struggle in the Sahara
- Inter Press Service
KUFRA, southern Libya, Oct 20 (IPS) - Safia’s six-year-old body is riddled with scars from the rocket that hit her home in February. With her immediate family all killed in the violent attack, this sole survivor smiles shyly as she visits the medics that fought to save her life.
U.S.: On Eve of Foreign Policy Debate, Voters Sour on Arab Spring
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (IPS) - On the eve of Monday’s foreign policy debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the electorate appears increasingly disillusioned with the so-called Arab Spring, according to a new survey released by the Pew Research Center here.
The Face of Food Security Is Female
- Inter Press Service
DES MOINES, Iowa, USA, Oct 19 (IPS) - In a major endorsement for investment in women - the bulk of food growers in the developing world - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said food security could not be achieved without women, and that the world's hungry also needed leaders to prioritise actions.
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