Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1261
U.S. Denies Consensus with Israel on Iran Nuclear Threat
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (IPS) - Tensions rose Thursday between the Barack Obama administration and the Israeli government when a leading Israeli official claimed to have knowledge of U.S. intelligence that portrays Iran as a more immediate threat than Washington has been saying.
Jeju Island Base Divides Korean, International Green Groups
- Inter Press Service
KAUAI, Hawaii, Aug 10 (IPS) - As construction of a hotly contested naval base on South Korea’s Jeju Island advances, there’s a showdown underway.
Amid Rise in Piracy, U.N. Backs Summit on Maritime Security
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 09 (IPS) - When the United Nations advocates the protection of the world's oceans, its political agenda transcends the battle against marine pollution, global warming, overfishing, greenhouse gases and sea-level rise.
Is the Staggering Rise of the South Sustainable?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Aug 09 (IPS) - Growth in developing economies (DEs) has accelerated significantly in the new millennium.
Humanity Should Not Live Under Nuclear Threat
- Inter Press Service
BARCELONA, Aug 09 (IPS) - Now that the war in Iraq is considered ‘over’, another major goal of Israel has come into view: attacking Iran on the pretext that it may possibly be working on a nuclear weapon - though Pakistan, China, and India definitely already have them.
Syrian Forces Launch Ground Assault in Aleppo
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Qatar, Aug 08 (IPS) - The Syrian army has launched a ground assault on the northern city of Aleppo, sparking fierce clashes with opposition fighters in the frontline district of Salaheddine.
Q&A: Sustainability Now a Matter of Life and Death
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Aug 08 (IPS) - Humanity is living beyond its means with the growing demand for food, medicines and other nature-based products, making sustainable consumption and conservation a matter of life and death. This is according to the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network, the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Persecuted Libyans Struggle to Be Heard
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Aug 08 (IPS) - Pregnant women miscarrying due to mistreatment, detainees mainly from sub-Saharan Africa denied adequate food and water. Small cells crammed with 80-100 detainees subjected to arbitrary justice by Libya’s volatile militias, politically persecuted Somalis forcibly repatriated to Mogadishu, and hundreds of boat people dying trying to flee Libya for a better life in Europe.
Corporate Lobbyists Threaten Democracy
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Aug 08 (IPS) - Over a month has passed since the United Nations summit on sustainable development concluded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but the world still appears to be unaware of one of the most important statements made during the conference that drew some 50,000 delegates from all over the world.
Colonised by the Arabs, Abandoned by the World
- Inter Press Service
TIZI OUZOU, Aug 07 (IPS) - Untamed stone villages line up over imposing green valleys. In winter they are white with snow. The luckiest have a view to the deep blue sea. "It’s gorgeous, isn’t it," says Amzi from his yellow cab. "Nobody would say we’re living in an open-air prison."
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