Global Issues
News headlines for “Global Financial Crisis”, page 457
Can China’s Silk Road Vision Coexist with a Eurasian Union?
- Inter Press Service
BISHKEK, Nov 20 (IPS) - There is a good chance that economic jockeying between China and Russia in Central Asia will intensify in the coming months. For Russia, Chinese economic expansion could put a crimp in President Vladimir Putin's grand plan for the Eurasian Economic Union.
Depression Casts Cloak of Infertility Over Kashmir Valley
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, Nov 19 (IPS) - It was almost midnight when Mushtaq Margoob woke up to the incessant ringing of his phone. It was his patient, a young woman whom Margoob, a renowned Kashmiri psychiatrist and head of the department of psychiatry at the only psychiatric hospital in Kashmir, had been treating for depression for many years.
A Game-Changing Week on Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (IPS) - - In recent days, two major developments have injected new life into international action on climate change.
Shale Oil Fuels Indigenous Conflict in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
CAMPO MARIPE, Argentina, Nov 18 (IPS) - The boom in unconventional fossil fuels has revived indigenous conflicts in southwest Argentina. Twenty-two Mapuche communities who live on top of Vaca Muerta, the geological formation where the reserves are located, complain that they were not consulted about the use of their ancestral lands, both "above and below ground."
Iranians Keep Hope Alive for Final Nuclear Deal
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (IPS) - In the United States, the negotiations aimed at a final deal between world powers and Iran over its nuclear programme—in a crucial phase this week—are far from the minds of average people. But for many Iranians, the talks hold the promise of a better future.
G20 Seeks to Streamline Private Investment in Infrastructure
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (IPS) - Industrialised countries have agreed to collaborate on a new programme aimed at funnelling significant private-sector investment into global infrastructure projects, particularly in developing countries.
Will New Climate Treaty Be a Thriller, or Shaggy Dog Story?
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 17 (IPS) - This December, 195 nations plus the European Union will meet in Lima for two weeks for the crucial U.N. Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, known as COP 20. The hope in Lima is to produce the first complete draft of a new global climate agreement.
Building Disaster Resilience Amidst Rampant Poverty
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Nov 17 (IPS) - Of the thousands of landslide-prone villages he has visited and worked with, R M S Bandara, a high-ranking official from Sri Lanka's National Building Resources Organisation (NBRO), says only one has made him sit up and take note.
Latin America Moves Towards Decarbonising the Economy
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 14 (IPS) - When the advances made towards curbing global warming are analysed in the first 12 days of December in Lima, during the 20th climate conference, Latin America will present some achievements, as well as the many challenges it faces in "decarbonising development".
U.S. Proposes Major Debt Relief for Ebola-Hit Countries
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (IPS) - The United States proposed Tuesday that the international community write off 100 million dollars in debt owed by West African countries hit hardest by the current Ebola outbreak. The money would be re-invested in health and other public programming.
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