Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1240
U.S. Military Assistance to Central Asia Highly “Opaque”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (IPS) - U.S. military assistance to key Central Asian governments has increased dramatically in recent years, but remains highly “unexamined”, according to new research presented in Washington on Tuesday.
Obama Aides Launch Preemptive Attack on New Iran Plan
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (IPS) - Although the place and time of the next round of talks on Iran’s nuclear programme have not yet been announced, the manoeuvring by Iran and the United States to influence the outcome has already begun.
OP-ED: Distorting US Foreign Policy
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 16 (IPS) - Contrary to U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent foreign policy speech at the United Nations, candidates’ pronouncements during election campaigns distort US foreign policy. Some arguments defy voters’ intelligence, and incite nations who should be our allies.
Developing World Has 80 Percent of Tobacco-Related Deaths
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (IPS) - Tobacco use led to almost six million deaths in 2011, according to new research released here on Monday, of which nearly 80 percent were in low- and middle-income countries.
Africa’s Claims for Security Council Seats Still in Limbo
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 15 (IPS) - After 20 long years of negotiations on a proposed expansion of the Security Council, African countries continue to be left out in the cold - even as African leaders complain that the international community has failed to respond to their demands for two permanent seats in the most powerful body at the United Nations.
UN Envoy to Syria Calls for Eid Ceasefire
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Oct 15 (IPS) - The U.N.-Arab League envoy has called for a ceasefire in Syria during the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, as the revolt against the Syrian government enters its 20th month with a death toll of more than 33,000.
Syria Stands Between Egypt and Iran
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 15 (IPS) - The election of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi to the presidency this summer was followed by a flurry of conjecture that the restoration of Egyptian-Iranian diplomatic relations – frozen since 1979 – was in the offing. Yet despite some initial indications to this effect, local analysts now say such speculation appears to have been premature.
Caged in the Great City
- Inter Press Service
AR-RAM, Occupied East Jerusalem, Oct 15 (IPS) - Ali Shuruf turns on the lights, that shine into a gaudy living room. Beyond the window, the dominant colour is uniformly grey: the house stands literally against a wall. Not just any wall – the infamous eight-metre cement wall separates Palestinians from Israelis.
The Key to Damascus Could Lie at the Borders
- Inter Press Service
MASHEREE AL-QA'A, Lebanon-Syria Border, Oct 14 (IPS) - A group of six men listen as voices crackle through a walkie-talkie. They are sitting in a farmhouse in the north of Lebanon less than a kilometre from the Syrian border. The sound of gunfire and shelling in the distance sporadically punctuates the atmosphere. One of the group returns to the room after taking a telephone call. “Good news from the battle,” he exclaims with a smile.
Asia: Saving Grace of Global Economy?
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Oct 13 (IPS) - Developing countries – relegated to the sidelines of the West-led postwar expansion – have emerged as the saving grace of the global economy against a backdrop of calls for a new economic model that can ease the ravages of globalisation and address the lack of confidence in market-based systems.
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