By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration is talking tough to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the need for dec...
Inter Press Service | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
By Humberto Márquez CARACAS, Nov 4 (IPS) - One Friday at around midnight, on Villaflor Street, a favourite spot for gays and lesbians in the Venez...
Inter Press Service | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (IPS) - The revelation by the New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President ...
Inter Press Service | Nitin Jugran Bahuguna | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
By Nitin Jugran Bahuguna NEW DELHI, Oct 22 (IPS) - It has been more than eight years since the January 2001 earthquake struck the Indian state of G...
Inter Press Service | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) - U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strateg...
Inter Press Service | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
By Mel Frykberg | Inter Press Service RAMALLAH, Oct 9 (IPS) - The Palestinian Authority (PA) is trying desperately to contain the political fallout...
Inter Press Service | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
By Nyarai Kachere MUTARE, Zimbabwe, Sep 29 (IPS) - Three years after being seized from their families and forced to marry and have sex with adult m...
Inter Press Service | Posted 09.22.2009 | World
Alecia D. McKenzie I IPS AMSTERDAM, Sep 22 (IPS) - Along with "canal" and "dyke", young people visiting this city will learn some other interesting...
Inter Press Service | Analysis by Gareth Porter | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (IPS) - Afghanistan's presidential election has long been viewed by U.S. officials as a key to conferring legit...
Inter Press Service | Posted 09.05.2009 | World
By Mel Frykberg | Inter Press Service BETHLEHEM, Aug 5 (IPS) - Fatah, the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), is fighti...
Inter Press Service | Posted 08.30.2009 | World
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jul 30 (IPS) - Somalia, a perpetually violence-prone country described as one of the world's failed states, may go t...
Inter Press Service | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani | Inter Press Service Cairo -- Egyptian courts have handed down unprecedented numbers of death sentence...
Crossover Dreams | Posted 07.29.2009 | World
Wars often drive people from their homes. But in Iraq, a discretionary war, launched through deception by a rogue administration in search of good targets for "shock and awe", produced refugees with industrial efficiency.
Inter Press Service | Helena Cobban | Posted 07.27.2009 | World
WASHINGTON, Jun 26 (IPS) - As the political crisis that erupted after Iran's Jun. 12 elections enters its third week, it is becoming evident that th...
Inter Press Service | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
By Daan Bauwens | Inter Press Service RABAT, Jun 23 (IPS) - More than 300 African refugees are gathered at the gates of the Moroccan United Nations...
Inter Press Service | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
By Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's refusal to share with other agencies even ...
Inter Press Service | Mel Frykberg | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
RAMALLAH, Jun 8 (IPS) - Three bills recently making the rounds in the Israeli parliament have caused outrage amongst Israel's Arab minority. "They...
Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
WASHINGTON, Jun 3 (IPS) - A report on Iran's nuclear programme issued by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month generated news stories p...
Inter Press Service | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
By Lydia Zemke | Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jun 2 (IPS) - Even as U.N. peacekeeping operations in the world's battle zones continue to exp...
Inter Press Service | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
By Marwaan Macan-Markar | Inter Press Service BANGKOK, May 27 (IPS) - A special investigative arm of Thailand's criminal justice system is set to ...
Inter Press Service | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
By Antoaneta Bezlova | Inter Press Service BEIJING, May 28 (IPS) - Cashing in on huge public interest in one of the deadliest earthquakes of recen...
Inter Press Service | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
By Omid Memarian | Inter Press Service SAN FRANCISCO, May 26 (IPS) - In a case that human rights activists say echoes that of recently released j...
Inter Press Service | Diego Cevallos | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY, May 22 (IPS) - In the last 13 months, 12 of Mexico's 32 states have approved amendments to their state constitutions defining a fertil...
Inter Press Service | Posted 06.21.2009 | World
By Mel Frykberg GAZA CITY, May 21 (IPS) - The lives of hundreds of critically ill Gazans continue to be jeopardised by the power struggle between ...
Inter Press Service | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
Natalia Ruiz Díaz interviews SUSANA CHIAROTTI, expert on violence against women in the Americas ASUNCION, May 19 (IPS) - Counting cases of machi...
Inter Press Service | Posted 11.06.2009 | World