Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1292
Buenos Aires Offers Same-Sex Marriage to Foreign Couples
- Inter Press Service
Foreign non-residents, gay or straight, can now get married in the Argentine capital, thanks to a resolution that removed bureaucratic obstacles and streamlined the procedure.
Buenos Aires Offers Same-Sex Marriage to Foreign Couples
- Inter Press Service
Foreign non-residents, gay or straight, can now get married in the Argentine capital, thanks to a resolution that removed bureaucratic obstacles and streamlined the procedure.
Industrialised Countries Under Critical Spotlight at U.N. Meet
- Inter Press Service
The latest session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taking place May 15-25 in the former German capital Bonn, is the perfect opportunity to reaffirm the enormous and growing body of scientific expertise on policies to tackle global warming.
Brazil Drives Energy Integration in South America
- Inter Press Service
Energy integration in South America will be a reality 'in the medium to long term,' driven by hydropower and drawing on Brazil’s experience, predicts Altino Ventura Filho, secretary of planning in this country’s Ministry of Mines and Energy.
U.S. Calls on Mali Junta to Withdraw from Politics
- Inter Press Service
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson says Malian soldiers who overthrew the government on Mar. 22 have neither the right to remain in power nor the strength to deal with humanitarian and security challenges facing the West African country.
Caught Between Diarrhoea Bugs and Arsenic
- Inter Press Service
Caught between arsenic contaminated groundwater and diarrhoea-causing microbes in its ponds and rivers, achieving the millennium development goal of providing access to safe drinking water for its 160 million people by 2015 is a tough call for Bangladesh.
Bracing for a Massive Influx of Returnees
- Inter Press Service
In the wake of border tensions the United Nations is airlifting 12,000 southerners from a Sudanese frontier town into South Sudan. But they are returning home in the midst of an economic crisis that has the U.N. warning it may appeal for more funding to scale up humanitarian operations.
From Mubarak to Worse
- Inter Press Service
More than 15 months after Egypt's Tahrir Square uprising and four months after free parliamentary polls, many Egyptians say that daily living conditions are worse now than they were in the Mubarak era.
U.S. Iran Hawks in Congress in Some Disarray
- Inter Press Service
Hopes by Iran hawks here to get the U.S. Congress to wield the threat of a U.S. military attack on the Islamic Republic on the eve of next week's critical negotiations on Tehran's nuclear programme appear to have fallen unexpectedly short.
Over Objections, U.S. Lifts Myanmar Investment Ban
- Inter Press Service
In a highly anticipated confirmation, the United States on Thursday announced that it would be significantly rolling back bilateral economic restrictions that have been in place on Myanmar (Burma) for a decade and a half.
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