Inter Press Service

U.S. Seeks To Limit Warlords In Karzai Cabinet

Inter Press Service | Posted 11.06.2009 | World


By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration is talking tough to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the need for dec...

Venezuela: Gays Attacked, Harassed By Police

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...

Hamid Karzai's Brother Only Tip Of Iceberg Of U.S. Dependence On Afghan Warlords: IPS

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 ...

India: Single Women Break Their Silence

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...

Pro-Afghan War Officials Play Up Taliban-al Qaida Ties: Analysis

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...

Goldstone Report: Palestinians' Anger At Their Leaders Intensifies

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...

Zimbabwe Virgins Forced into Marriage to 'Appease' Evil Spirits

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...

Netherlands Sees Increase In Youth Smoking Pot; Taking Steps To Revise Cannabis Laws

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...

Karzai, Afghan Warlords Mount Massive Vote Fraud Scheme

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...

Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Threatened By Fatah Divisions

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...

Somalia: UN Says It's Time To Return To Mogadishu

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...

Egypt Death Sentences At An All-Time High

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...

Iraqi Refugees in the U.S.: Strangers in Paradise

Crossover Dreams | Posted 07.29.2009 | World


Crossover Dreams

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.

Iran Elections: Political Effects To Be Felt Across Region

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...

UN Refugee Officials Accused Of Beatings In Morocco

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...

Pakistan Drone Attack Secrecy Hides Abuses

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 ...

Israel's Arab Community Says Proposed Laws Threaten Their Rights

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...

Iran Nuclear Assessment May Have Been Tainted By Iranian Intelligence "Ruse"

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...

UN Women Peacekeeper Dearth A Concern: Officials

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...

Thailand Drug War Probe Investigating Slain Civilians Under Thaksin Shinawatra

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 ...

China 'Disaster Tourism' Policy Is Newest Subsidy To Devastated Areas

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...

Iran 'US Spy' Cases Remain After Saberi Release

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...

Mexico Anti-Abortion Laws On The Rise

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...

Hamas, Fatah Power Struggle Killing Patients

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 ...

Latin American Women Suffering 'Hidden Genocide': Expert

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...