Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1295
Private Sector and Conservationists Meet on a Big Date
- Inter Press Service
As schools of whales move to music undersea at image definitions of 6.54 million pixels on the giant ceiling mounted LED screen, 218 X 30 metres in length and width, expectations run high from the International Exposition Yeosu Korea 2012 at harbour town. The expo showcases 104 participating countries’ visions and achievements on the Expo theme: ‘The Living Ocean and Coast: Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities’.
BOOKS: Controversy and Deadly Destruction Arising from Drone Use
- Inter Press Service
Grasshoppers and other insects might become the next generation of drones, if researchers with the Israeli research centre Technion who are studying the movements of these insects succeed. Ultimately, they hope to be able to remotely control where the insects fly.
IAEA Refuses Iran Cooperation Pact Until After Parchin Visit
- Inter Press Service
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano has signaled that there will be no IAEA agreement with Iran in the meetings in Vienna Monday and Tuesday on the terms for Iranian cooperation in clarifying issue of alleged nuclear weapons work.
Financial Middlemen Muddle Climate Commitments
- Inter Press Service
The European Union has been using all means necessary to fill the multi- billion-euro fund for climate change, including the controversial mobilisation of public resources through private financial intermediaries.
Deserting Refugees in the Sahara
- Inter Press Service
As dusk settles over the isolated Saharan town Kufra, young guards order a few hundred migrants lined up at a detention centre to chant 'Libya free, Chadians out', before they kneel down for evening prayers.
Round One to Radical Left, Round Two to Europe?
- Inter Press Service
Kosmas Bitros (29) didn’t 'believe in politics and in elections as a way of changing society'. Still, he showed up at the ballot boxes for the first time last Sunday to cast a vote against austerity in the Greek national elections.
Recovering From the Spring, at a Price
- Inter Press Service
The Arab Spring has sent scores of sick and injured Libyans fleeing their war- torn country north to Jordan. The unexpected flow of patients is putting a lot of pressure on Jordanian hospitals and disrupting the lives of Libyan and Jordanian patients alike, a situation the Libyan government is now attempting to correct.
Unresolved Ethnic Issues Threaten Myanmar Reforms
- Inter Press Service
Discussion of economic reforms in Myanmar (Burma) should not overshadow the critical need for a political solution to the longstanding grievances of the country's ethnic minorities, observers in Washington warned on Friday.
Spain’s 'Indignados' Take to the Streets Again
- Inter Press Service
A filthy vacant lot is now sprouting strawberries, tomatoes and carrots. This small community garden in the centre of the southern Spanish city of Málaga was created by the 'Indignados' protest movement, which is celebrating its first anniversary Saturday by taking to the streets across the country.
Indonesia Galvanises Youth Ahead of Rio+20
- Inter Press Service
Clutching a plastic bag containing a tree sapling in his right hand and a slim notebook in his left, 11-year-old Rizki Fauzi is the picture of a young climate change expert.
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