Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 280
Charleston Church Shooting Sparks Debate on Race in South Africa
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 26 (IPS) - South Africa's old guard of separatist whites who supported the racist policy of apartheid have been reading with interest about Dylann Roof, accused assassin in the deaths of nine churchgoers at the Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Fracking Expands Under the Radar on Mexican Lands
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Jun 26 (IPS) - "People don't know what ‘fracking' is and there is little concern about the issue because it's not visible yet," said Gabino Vicente, a delegate of one of the municipalities in southern Mexico where exploration for unconventional gas is forging ahead.
Corporate Interests Dominate Lobbying With EU Policy-Makers
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Jun 24 (IPS) - The overwhelming majority of lobby meetings held by European Commissioners and their closest advisors are with representatives of corporate interests, according to an analysis published Jun. 24 by Transparency International (TI).
Bougainville Election Intensifies Hopes for Independence
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Australia, Jun 24 (IPS) - A referendum on independence within the next five years dominated campaigning in the recent general election held in Bougainville, an autonomous region of 300,000 people in the east of Papua New Guinea (PNG), which emerged from a decade-long civil war 15 years ago.
On Kenya’s Coast, a Struggle for the Sacred
- Inter Press Service
, Jun 23 (IPS) - Travel into the heart of Kenya's southern Coast Province, nearly 500 km from the capital city of Nairobi, and you will come across one of the planet's most curious World Heritage Sites: the remains of several fortified villages, revered by the indigenous Mijikenda people as the sacred abodes of their ancestors.
Opinion: Sub-Saharan Africa, Addis and Paris
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 23 (IPS) - After the turn of the century, growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) picked up again after a quarter century of near stagnation for most, mainly due to increased world demand for minerals and other natural resources.
Critics of World Bank-Funded Projects in the Line of Fire
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 22 (IPS) - For an entire month beginning in February 2015, a group of between 40 and 50 residents of the Durgapur Village in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand would gather at the site of a hydroelectric power project being carried out by the state-owned Tehri Hydro Development Corporation (THDC).
Opinion: The Oceans Need the Spotlight Now
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jun 22 (IPS) - The international community must focus its energies immediately on addressing the grave challenges confronting the oceans. With implications for global order and peace, the oceans are also becoming another arena for national rivalry.
Amazon Dam also Brings Health Infrastructure for Local Population
- Inter Press Service
ALTAMIRA, Brazil, Jun 19 (IPS) - Extensive public health infrastructure and the eradication of malaria will be the most important legacy of the construction of the Belo Monte hydropower dam in Brazil's Amazon jungle for the population affected by the megaproject.
Farmers Find their Voice Through Radio in the Badlands of India
- Inter Press Service
TIKAMGARH, India, Jun 19 (IPS) - Eighty-year-old Chenabai Kushwaha sits on a charpoy under a neem tree in the village of Chitawar, located in the Tikamgarh district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, staring intently at a dictaphone.
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