Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1253
Auto Production Roars to New Records
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - Following a plunge in output triggered by the global economic crisis, world auto production is roaring back to new peaks.
Palestinians Now Face Killing Prices
- Inter Press Service
BETHLEHEM, Occupied West Bank, Sep 12 (IPS) - Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets across the West Bank over the past week in protest against increasingly high living costs, and demanding major changes from the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership.
Polygamy Throttles Women in Senegal
- Inter Press Service
IMF Likely to Miss Key Reforms Deadline
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - With just a month to go before an agreed deadline, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Tuesday that a push for more equitable voting shares among the organisation’s member states was still lagging.
OP-ED: Women and Girls at Heart of the Blue Revolution
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 11 (IPS) - World Water Week recently concluded in Stockholm with a special emphasis on the linkages between water and food security.
Trans-Pacific Trade Talks Grind On
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 11 (IPS) - The 14th round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the proposal for a massive free-trade area spearheaded by the United States, got underway here over the weekend.
U.S. Public Satisfied With Less Militarised Global Role
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 10 (IPS) - Disillusioned by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. public is becoming increasingly comfortable with a more modest and less militarised global role for the nation, according to the latest in a biennial series of major surveys.
Exchanging Peace, One Postcard at a Time
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 10 (IPS) - When Ross Holzman packs for a work trip, he brings three bags with him: One with blank postcards, one with crayons, and one with thousands of artworks created by children around the world.
Syrian Kurds Find the Language of Freedom
- Inter Press Service
DERIK, Northern Syria, Sep 10 (IPS) - "I want to learn how to read and write in my own language," says Manal, a young Kurd from Syria. Neither she nor any of Manal’s 30 classmates have ever been so close to achieving their goal.
Losing Land, and Finding a Roof
- Inter Press Service
DHEISHEH REFUGEE CAMP, Occupied West Bank, Sep 09 (IPS) - Asmahan Ramadan and her family have taken thousands of photos on the rooftop of their home. Not of themselves, or of the overcrowded Dheisheh refugee camp they see every day.
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