Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Thursday, July 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jul 31 (IPS) – U.S. defence strategy should be focused primarily in the short to medium term on unconventional threats, particularly ”violent extremist movements such as al Qaeda and its associates”, [...]
POLITICS: U.N.’s Darfur Force Left Stranded, Critics Say
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Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Thursday, July 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Omid Memarian UNITED NATIONS, Jul 31 (IPS) – As the U.N. Security Council debated the wording of a resolution extending the peacekeeping force in Darfur, Sudan for another year, a coalition of human rights [...]
BRAZIL: Biodiesel to Bring Electricity to Amazon Villages
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Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Thursday, July 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 31 (IPS) – Oil from native tucuma, ouricurí and murumurú palm trees will be used to provide electricity to isolated communities in the depths of the Brazilian Amazon, [...]
HEALTH-KENYA: Women’s Choices Could Change Cities
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Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Thursday, July 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Rose N. Oronje NAIROBI, Jul 31 (IPS) – This year the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: for the first time in history, more than half its population will be living in urban [...]
IRAQ: Police Bombings Raise New Fears
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Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Thursday, July 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* FALLUJAH, Jul 31 (IPS) – A tense security situation in this volatile city has worsened after some policemen found bombs planted on the roofs of their houses. Astonishing attacks [...]
REFUGEES: Afghans Resist Going Home
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Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Thursday, July 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Tarjei Kidd Olsen OSLO, Jul 31 (IPS) – Norway’s offers of cash and its promises of reintegration support to failed asylum seekers to return voluntarily to Afghanistan has mostly been a failure, a new [...]
EUROPE: Transition Brings AIDS
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Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Thursday, July 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Claudia Ciobanu BUCHAREST, Jul 31 (IPS) – Poverty and social displacement, increased availability of drugs, and chaos in the healthcare systems that accompanied transition from state socialism to the market economy have contributed to [...]
BOOKS-US: A Path Out of the Wilderness
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Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Thursday, July 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ali Gharib WASHINGTON, Jul 31 (IPS) – Helena Cobban’s new book, ”Re-Engage! America and the World After Bush”, is not aimed at a target audience of officials, policy wonks and Washington elite think-tank types. [...]
ISRAEL: Exit Olmert, At Last
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Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Thursday, July 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Peter Hirschberg JERUSALEM, Jul 31 (IPS) – The announcement Wednesday evening by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that he will resign as soon as his ruling Kadima party has chosen a new leader in mid-September [...]
NORWAY: Oil Fund Finds Ethical Success
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Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Thursday, July 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Tarjei Kidd Olsen OSLO, Jul 31 (IPS) – Norway’s ‘oil fund’ has risen to become the second largest fund in the world despite housing an ethical investments council which has kicked out major companies [...]
