Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1318
OP-ED: Getting the Market to Tell the Truth
- Inter Press Service
Moving the global economy off its current decline-and-collapse path depends on reaching four goals: stabilising climate, stabilising population, eradicating poverty, and restoring the economy's natural support systems.
Annan: Iran Can Be Part of Syria 'Solution'
- Inter Press Service
Kofi Annan, the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy on Syria, has welcomed Iranian support for his efforts to secure peace in the country, telling Tehran that it can be 'part of the solution'.
Protests Over Property Rise Across China
- Inter Press Service
Zhang Haxia and her husband received a knock on the door in the middle of one night last December. They were dragged from their home in south-west China and forced into a van. When they returned nothing was left.
Argentine Court Forges Ahead in Franco-Era Human Rights Crimes Case
- Inter Press Service
Based on the principle of universal justice, human rights crimes committed during Spain's 1936-1939 civil war and the 1939-1975 dictatorship of General Francisco Franco are being tried in Argentina, and more and more plaintiffs are joining the lawsuit.
Eastern Europe, a Cold War Relic, Still Alive at U.N.
- Inter Press Service
A politically intense battle between Lithuania and Serbia for the post of president of the next General Assembly sessions has shifted the focus on an anomaly of the Cold War era: the existence of the long-defunct Eastern Europe.
India’s Job Guarantee Scheme Under Strain
- Inter Press Service
Standing on a patch of arid, degraded land, 100 km from southern Bangalore city, Ramapal, member of the ‘gram panchayat’ (local village administration), points to a roughly-dug canal feeding a narrow belt of green cultivation.
India’s IT Elite Could Shape New ‘Asian Capitalism’
- Inter Press Service
The rapid currents moving the centre of economic influence towards an emerging global order headquartered in Asia were evident at the PanIIT’s 2012 annual conference of alumni of the highly prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), which took place in Singapore over the Easter weekend.
Pakistani Jazz Touches New Chords
- Inter Press Service
The silencing of music in the name of Islam led Pappu to give up the cello and set up a tea stall. But Pappu and other musicians survived the Islamist regime for former dictator Zia ul-Haq and the recent ways of the Taliban to return to the most surprising group of musicians to have emerged over years — on a dusty little street in the Pakistani city Lahore.
Brazil, U.S. Deepen Ties Ahead of Obama's Latin America Week
- Inter Press Service
Kicking off what some here have called President Barack Obama's 'Latin America Week', the president and his Brazilian counterpart, Dilma Rousseff, touted a deepening of bilateral ties in her first visit to the White House as president of South America's superpower.
Institutionalised Homophobia Encourages Hate Crimes
- Inter Press Service
Agnes Torres, a transsexual psychologist and gay rights activist, left her home in the central Mexican state of Puebla on her way to a party. The next day, her body was found in a gully, naked from the waist down. Her throat had been slit.
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