Global Issues
News headlines for “Crisis in Libya”, page 20
Egypt Sees a Dam Confrontation
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Jun 23 (IPS) - Ethiopia's diversion of part of the Blue Nile late last month has both rocked Cairo's relations with Addis Ababa and provided fodder for Egypt's ongoing war of attrition between its Islamist government and secular opposition.
Egypt Marks a Spring for Islamists
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Jun 21 (IPS) - Egyptians are deeply divided and the majority are dissatisfied with the performance of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, but also have little confidence in the main opposition figures or their future, a new poll has found.
U.S., EU Urged to Press Harder for Reform in Bahrain
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 21 (IPS) - Human rights groups here are calling for the United States and the European Union (EU) to exert more pressure on Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, to seriously engage its opposition and end its repression of its majority Shi'a population.
Arab Americans Aim at Preserving New York's Little Syria
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 20 (IPS) - A brick red, six-story tenement house, St. George Melkite Church and a community house in desperate need of repair are nearly all that remain of a once thriving Arab-American community in downtown New York City.
Border Weakens Between Bombs and Cherries
- Inter Press Service
KIBBUTZ EIN ZIVAN, Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights, Jun 19 (IPS) - It all happened within ten days – Syria's civil war fought metres away from Israeli orchards abutting the ceasefire line; Austrian peacekeepers hastily evacuating the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that separates Israel from Syria; fears of a total collapse of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). All while the cherry-picking season is at its peak.
Kurds Advance, Into the Unknown
- Inter Press Service
GIRKE LEGE, Syria, Jun 18 (IPS) - A ban on political and even social gatherings, a bar on Kurdish language and culture; uprooting people, forced disappearances and a ‘caste' of hundreds of thousands of local Kurds deprived of citizenship... life for Kurds in pre-war Syria was probably as dire as it is today for their kin in Iran.
Fatwas Heighten Sectarian Tensions in Syria Conflict
- Inter Press Service
, Jun 16 (IPS) - Saudi Arabian religious scholars are leading an increasingly vocal chorus of Islamic preachers who are urging Muslims and Arabs to support Syrian rebels against what they say are atrocities at the hands of Iran-backed Shiite forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Despite Arms Announcement, U.S. Syria Strategy Remains Unclear
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 14 (IPS) - Despite Thursday's announcement that President Barack Obama has decided to provide direct military assistance to Syrian rebels, what precisely the administration has in mind remains unclear.
Obama to Increase "Scope and Scale" of Aid to Syrian Rebels
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 14 (IPS) - Declaring that U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against rebel forces, the White House announced Thursday that it will increase "the scope and scale" of assistance it has been providing to the opposition, including direct support to its military arm.
Cairo’s Poor Convert Kitchen Waste Into Fuel Savings
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Jun 12 (IPS) - The bio-gas digester on the roof of Hussein Farag's apartment in one of Cairo's poorest districts provides a daily supply of cooking gas produced from the kitchen waste his family would otherwise discard in plastic bags or empty into the clogged sewer below his building.
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