Global Issues
News headlines for “Crisis in Libya”, page 16
Troubled Kurds Draw Closer
- Inter Press Service
SULEYMANIA, Iraqi Kurdistan, Aug 07 (IPS) - "The Islamists' announcement that god supported the killing of Kurds in Syria made us react," recalls Farouk Aziz Khadir. This 60-year-old Iraqi Kurd is ready to take up arms to defend his kin in the neighbouring war-torn country. And there are many more like him.
Fear of Isolation Gets Israel Talking
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Aug 06 (IPS) - The fresh Palestinian-Israeli peace drive stems from the realisation by all parties involved in the process that diplomatic isolation constitutes a strategic threat to Israel. This isolation whip will be held above Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's back for as long as it takes for him to agree to the pre-1967 lines as basis for the end of the 46-year occupation.
Military Boot Pushes Down on Democracy
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Aug 04 (IPS) - Egypt's military chief, General Abdel Fatah El-Sissi, who in July announced on state television that the army had ousted Egypt's first democratically elected president, has tried to wrap a veneer of democracy around actions that most others have condemned as a coup.
OP-ED: Bahrain Declares War on the Opposition
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 01 (IPS) - The special session of the Bahraini National Assembly held on Sunday Jul. 28 was a spectacle of venom, a display of vulgarity, and an unabashed nod to increased dictatorship.
Egypt-Like Disputes Stir Tunisia
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Jul 31 (IPS) - As political divisions threaten to destabilise the national transition process in Tunisia, Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh has set deadlines for finalising the new constitution and holding elections. Not everyone is convinced these will be met.
Kirkuk Plays Dice With Violence
- Inter Press Service
KIRKUK, Iraq, Jul 31 (IPS) - Two teams struggle to find an olive under one of the 11 cups displayed on a tray. The traditional game sin-u-serf (tray and cup in Kurdish) is only played during the Muslim fasting month. In one of Iraq's most violent cities, it is nothing less than a challenge to death.
Mideast Peace Talks Get New Lease on Life
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 30 (IPS) - Six months of United States diplomatic efforts have finally restarted talks between Israelis and Palestinians, yet pessimism about their potential for success persists.
Bands Play Across Political Discord
- Inter Press Service
TEL AVIV, Jul 28 (IPS) - Two heavy metal bands, the Israeli-Arab Khalas (‘enough,' in Arabic) and the Orphaned Land, a Jewish band, performed simultaneously this week under the roof of Club Hangar 13 in the refurbished port of Tel Aviv. The bands are slated to play together this fall in a series of 18 gigs across Europe.
Kurds Find a German Healing Touch
- Inter Press Service
QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraq, Jul 26 (IPS) - "I witnessed a Turkish tank made in Germany destroying a Kurdish village. Civilians, children included, were wounded, and many were taking shelter inside a besieged church," said Media, the German nurse who has become legendary in the Kurdish mountains of northern Iraq and is known here only by this name.
New Bid for Mideast Talks after Five-Year Hiatus
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 23 (IPS) - There is a real opportunity for peacemaking between Israel and the Palestinians, even though the obstacles are more formidable than in the past. That was the assessment of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, speaking Monday at a public event which posed the question "Can the Two-State Solution Be Saved?"
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