Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1248
For Palestinian Workers, the Enemy Is the Hope
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, Sep 25 (IPS) - Hassan Hader’s application for a permit to work in Israel has been rejected four times. Now waiting to hear back from the Israeli authorities on his latest attempt, the 52-year-old father of five said he has no choice but to keep applying.
Child Abuse on the Rise in Bahrain
- Inter Press Service
MANAMA, Sep 25 (IPS) - A thirty-four-year-old Bahraini teacher, whose son was abused five years ago, has hitherto refused to tell anyone the story, afraid that she will be blamed for failing to protect her child who is now eight years old.
Nobel Laureate Calls for Armed Intervention in Nigeria
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - On the International Day of Peace, Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka visited the United Nations - and called for armed intervention against the terrorist group Boko Haram in his home country of Nigeria.
U.N. Chief Jabs Media for Overblown Coverage of Hate Crimes
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 (IPS) - When the United Nations commemorated International Day of Peace last week, the celebrations were marred by news of widespread rage in the Islamic world, a continued bloody civil war in Syria, suicide bombings in Iraq and Afghanistan and violent demonstrations in Pakistan, Indonesia and Bangladesh against a video caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad.
Iranian Diplomat Says Iran Offered Deal to Halt 20-Percent Enrichment
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 24 (IPS) - Iran has again offered to halt its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent, which the United States has identified as its highest priority in the nuclear talks, in return for easing sanctions against Iran, according to Iran’s permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Libyan Islamists Cornered, Not Quietened
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Sep 24 (IPS) - It could be premature to believe that the storming of Islamist militia bases by Benghazi citizens on Friday could spell the end for Libya’s Islamist militants. Just as it was premature to claim when moderate Libyan political parties took the majority of votes during the July elections that Libya had bucked the Islamist trend sweeping the region.
Assad and Opposition Both Losing
- Inter Press Service
ALEPPO, Syria, Sep 23 (IPS) - Two floors have been ripped from the top of an apartment block in Aleppo in northern Syria. A lone man stands amidst the rubble four stories up after a missile from one of his own government’s fighter jets smashed into the building that morning. With his arms crossed, the solitary figure surveys the destruction around him.
A Lake of Hope and Conflict
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, Sep 22 (IPS) - Parvez Ahmad Dar climbs three hours to reach the hilltop, generator-equipped tourist centre in Ajaf village, 35 kilometres from Srinagar, to recharge his mobile phone.
Water for Phosphate, Not People
- Inter Press Service
GAFSA, Tunisia, Sep 22 (IPS) - Gafsa region in the south of Tunisia was once an oasis; today the phosphate industry has plunged it into a water crisis.
U.S. to Take Iran Anti-Regime Group Off Terrorism List
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 22 (IPS) - In a move certain to ratchet up already-high tensions with Iran, the administration of President Barack Obama will remove a militant anti-regime group from the State Department’s terrorism list, U.S. officials told reporters here Friday.
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