Global Issues
News headlines for “Crisis in Libya”, page 15
The Angry Young Will Now Shape Egypt
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Aug 15 (IPS) - The youth within the Muslim Brotherhood may become very difficult to restrain following the bloody killings in Cairo, senior party members say.
U.S. Condemns Military Crackdown in Egypt but No Aid Cut-off
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (IPS) - The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has denounced in unusually harsh terms Wednesday's bloody military crackdown against supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
U.N. Chief Lambastes Egypt's Army but Refuses to Affirm Coup
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 14 (IPS) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who has refused to describe the Egyptian army's ouster of a democratically-elected government last month as a "military coup", lambasted the country's security forces for Wednesday's massacre of civilians in the streets of Cairo.
While Officials Talk, Israelis Build
- Inter Press Service
HAR BRACHA SETTLEMENT, Occupied West Bank, Aug 14 (IPS) - Large spools of black tubing and plastic-wrapped water tanks lay strewn across a dusty construction site. A handful of Palestinian labourers, speaking quietly in Arabic, shuttle the items to the two unfinished, three-storey apartment blocs behind them.
Now Tunisia Begins to Shake
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Aug 13 (IPS) - Tunisia was plunged into political strife when opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi was assassinated late last month, triggering widespread pro- and anti-government demonstrations across the country. In the days since his death the North African nation has faced a further series of terrorist attacks that have threatened to destabilise a country seen as a model for post-revolution democracy in the region.
Freeing Prisoners, at a Price
- Inter Press Service
TEL AVIV, Aug 12 (IPS) - Standing in front of the makeshift memorial corner of his deceased children that he arranged in the room , Tzion Swery says to himself, "How ironical that we mark the 12th anniversary of their death on Tuesday just as Israel starts releasing Palestinian prisoners."
Egypt Military ‘Split’ Over Morsi
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Aug 10 (IPS) - Divisions are opening up within the Egyptian military over the controversial takeover from the ousted government of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi, a senior party leader says.
Choked Media Struggles to Speak Out in Jordan
- Inter Press Service
AMMAN, Aug 08 (IPS) - Journalists and media activists have begun to confront the Jordanian government over its moves to block local news websites. Two months now after the blockage, many of these sites are struggling.
OP-ED: The Making of the Middle East's Newest Strongman
- Inter Press Service
BERKELEY, California, Aug 07 (IPS) - Before an ultimatum to attack an anti-coup sit-in earlier this week, Egypt's new strongman and coup leader Gen. Abdel Fatah Al-Sissi received one of his warmest endorsements ever - something that might have been torn right out of the steamy pages of the "Arabian Nights".
More Kids Pushed Into Labour in Lebanon
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Aug 07 (IPS) - With Lebanon fraying at the seams under pressure from the neighbouring Syria conflict and the economy stuttering amid a political vacuum, more and more children are being pushed into labour.
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