Global Issues News Headlines for “Middle East and North Africa Unrest” https://www.globalissues.org/news/topic/792 2024-03-28T01:52:58-07:00 Global Issues Inter Press Service UN News https://static.globalissues.org/i/globalissues.png https://static.globalissues.org/i/globalissues/logo-feed.jpghttps://www.globalissues.org/news/2017/02/13/22873Dubai Ruler Warns Against Economic Isolation at Summit Meeting2017-02-13T14:50:36-08:00<p><img src="https://static.globalissues.org/ips/2017/02/Sheikh-Mohammad-Bin-Rashid_.jpg" width="640" alt="" /></p><p>ROME, Feb 13 (IPS) - Speaking at the opening of the two-day World Government Summit in Dubai, Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, said economic openness is a ground reality.</p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2017/02/13/22873">Read the full story, “Dubai Ruler Warns Against Economic Isolation at Summit Meeting”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/04/22/20897Saudis Compensate Civilian Killings with 274 Million in Humanitarian Aid to Yemen2015-04-22T19:45:14-07:00<p><img src="https://static.globalissues.org/ips/2015/04/17068831976_bdac3b7ba1_z.jpg" width="640" alt="" /></p><p>UNITED NATIONS, Apr 22 (IPS) - Saudi Arabia's right hand does not know what its left foot is up to, belittles an Asian diplomat, mixing his metaphors to describe the political paradox in the ongoing military conflict in Yemen.</p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/04/22/20897">Read the full story, “Saudis Compensate Civilian Killings with 274 Million in Humanitarian Aid to Yemen”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/04/09/20850State of Palestine in Overtime2015-04-09T17:35:10-07:00<p><img src="https://static.globalissues.org/ips/2015/04/israeli-soldiers.jpg" width="640" alt="" /></p><p>UNITED NATIONS, Apr 09 (IPS) - The large majority of countries, and most of the people in the world, already recognise Palestine as an independent state.</p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/04/09/20850">Read the full story, “State of Palestine in Overtime”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/03/17/20743Veto Costs Lives as Syrian Civil War Passes Deadly Milestone2015-03-17T12:27:06-07:00<p><img src="https://static.globalissues.org/ips/2015/03/aleppo-bombing.jpg" width="640" alt="" /></p><p>UNITED NATIONS, Mar 17 (IPS) - As the long drawn-out Syrian military conflict passed a four-year milestone over the weekend, the New York-based Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) summed it up in a striking headline: 4 years, 4 vetoes, 220,000 dead.</p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/03/17/20743">Read the full story, “Veto Costs Lives as Syrian Civil War Passes Deadly Milestone”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/03/11/20714Eighty-Three Percent of Lights Have Gone Out in Syria2015-03-11T23:49:39-07:00<p><img src="https://static.globalissues.org/ips/2015/03/Syria_small.jpg" width="640" alt="" /></p><p>UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11 (IPS) - A single image can be more powerful, more descriptive and more potent than an entire essay – ‘ a picture says a thousand words,' as the cliché goes.</p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/03/11/20714">Read the full story, “Eighty-Three Percent of Lights Have Gone Out in Syria”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/03/02/20669Syrian Conflict Has Underlying Links to Climate Change, Says Study2015-03-02T17:59:45-08:00<p><img src="https://static.globalissues.org/ips/2015/03/syria-drought.jpg" width="640" alt="" /></p><p>UNITED NATIONS, Mar 02 (IPS) - Was the four-year-old military conflict in Syria, which has claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, mostly civilians, triggered at least in part by climate change?</p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/03/02/20669">Read the full story, “Syrian Conflict Has Underlying Links to Climate Change, Says Study”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/02/24/20637Syria's &quot;Barrel Bombs&quot; Cause Human Devastation, Says Rights Group2015-02-24T22:18:26-08:00<p><img src="https://static.globalissues.org/ips/2015/02/syria-bombing.jpg" width="640" alt="" /></p><p>UNITED NATIONS, Feb 24 (IPS) - The warring parties in the brutal four-year-old military conflict in Syria, which has claimed the lives of over 200,000 civilians and triggered "the greatest refugee crisis in modern times," continue to break every single pledge held out to the United Nations.</p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/02/24/20637">Read the full story, “Syria's &quot;Barrel Bombs&quot; Cause Human Devastation, Says Rights Group”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/02/13/20606Israel’s Obsession for Monopoly on Middle East Nuclear Power2015-02-13T20:53:10-08:00<p><img src="https://static.globalissues.org/ips/2015/02/net-at-the-un.jpg" width="640" alt="" /></p><p>UNITED NATIONS, Feb 13 (IPS) - As the Iranian nuclear talks hurtle towards a Mar. 24 deadline, there is renewed debate among activists about the blatant Western double standards underlying the politically-heated issue, and more importantly, the resurrection of a longstanding proposal for a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction (WMD).</p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/02/13/20606">Read the full story, “Israel’s Obsession for Monopoly on Middle East Nuclear Power”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/01/28/20548U.S. Ally Yemen in Danger of Splitting into Two - Again2015-01-28T00:23:18-08:00<p><img src="https://static.globalissues.org/ips/2015/01/yemen.jpg" width="640" alt="" /></p><p>UNITED NATIONS, Jan 28 (IPS) - When North and South Yemen merged into a single country under the banner Yemen Arab Republic back in May 1990, a British newspaper remarked with a tinge of sarcasm: "Two poor countries have now become one poor country."</p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/01/28/20548">Read the full story, “U.S. Ally Yemen in Danger of Splitting into Two - Again”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/01/26/20542OPINION: Looking Two Steps Ahead into Saudi Arabia’s Future2015-01-26T20:08:41-08:00<p><img src="https://static.globalissues.org/ips/2015/01/salman.jpg" width="640" alt="" /></p><p>WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (IPS) - Much has been written about King Abdullah's legacy and what Saudi Arabia accomplished or failed to accomplish during his reign in terms of reform and human rights. Very little has been written about the role that Muhammad bin Nayef, the newly appointed deputy to the crown prince, could play in the new Saudi Arabia under King Salman.</p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/01/26/20542">Read the full story, “OPINION: Looking Two Steps Ahead into Saudi Arabia’s Future”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>