Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1262
Native Peoples Take on Threadbare Stereotypes
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 06 (IPS) - With the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples coming up on Thursday, native communities are increasingly using media to challenge a legacy of stereotypes.
High-Level Defections, Escalating Violence Mark New Phase of Syrian Uprising
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 06 (IPS) - As government security forces continue a week-long siege of Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, high-ranking Syrian officials have begun to defect from the regime in record numbers.
Holy Sites Hold Fast to Status Quo
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Aug 06 (IPS) - “With our spirit, with our blood, we’ll redeem you, O Noble Sanctuary!” the veiled teenagers fervently sing in unison in honour of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan. Israeli police officers in uniform and full battle gear sit unimpressed under pine trees; others patrol the compound.
Palestinian Bubble Set to Burst
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 05 (IPS) - “It will collapse, and the collapse will be harder when it happens later,” says Tareq Sadeq, Palestinian economist and professor at Birzeit University, about the financial bubble building up in the Palestinian Authority government.
TURKEY: Caught Between Syria’s Kurds and a Hard Spot
- Inter Press Service
ISTANBUL, Aug 04 (IPS) - In a display of muscle-flexing, Turkish tanks this week carried out military exercises on the Syrian border, just a few kilometres away from towns that Syrian Kurds had seized from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
OP-ED: U.S. Adrift on Law of the Sea
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 03 (IPS) - A little overshadowed by the Olympics, the Yeosu 2012 Expo is, in its own way, doing more than the London Games to promote global harmony - and without stirring up the waters the way the British did when they posted the ROK flag for the DPRK women’s soccer team.
Climate-Battered South Asia Looks to Rio+20 Formula
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Aug 03 (IPS) - Far-flung South Asian communities, from the high Himalayan slopes to the Indian Ocean coasts, united in the face of extreme and uncertain weather, continue to hold on to the hope that the Rio+20 focus on disaster risk reduction (DRR) will positively influence national policies.
AZERBAIJAN: Signs Point to Russia's Departure from Gabala Radar Base
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Aug 03 (IPS) - It may look like just a 27-year-old radar station in a remote stretch of northern Azerbaijan. But, in reality, Gabala is all about Baku’s desire to assert its own weight as a regional power – even against its onetime patron, Russia.
Q&A: U.N. Spotlights Pirates in the Malacca Strait at Expo 2012
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 03 (IPS) - At the Yeosu World Expo 2012, the U.N. commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of the U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), highlighting efforts to quell the global scourge of piracy.
As Fighting Escalates in Syria, a Frustrated Mediator Resigns
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 03 (IPS) - After five months of intense shuttle diplomacy aimed at resolving the growing 17-month old political crisis in Syria, a visibly frustrated Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan called it quits.
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