Full Coverage: Geopolitics

31.10.2009 The role of Britain in the effort to take Israel to the International Criminal Court over the killings of Palestinians in Gaza nine months ago will be to catch "diplomatic flu" and abstain rather than stand up against human rights abuses, says The Muslim News:

24.08.2009 Kwame Kwei-Armah’s four-part series retracing Queen Elizabeth’s 1954 royal trip, On Tour With The Queen, is odd but quietly engaging.

29.07.2009 It’s certainly a good idea: 56 years after the newly-crowned Queen Elizabeth’s six-month, 45,000 mile royal tour – still the most ambitious ever undertaken – Kwame Kwei-Armah retraces her journey to see what it meant, then and now. The question is: does On Tour With The Queen make good TV?

19.07.2009 Valuable analysis of the regional power relationships influencing Sri Lanka's prospects of obtaining IMF funding. groundviews

23.06.2009 Africa has entered a new stage – of state-making, French academic Gerard Prunier told a meeting in London last week.

22.06.2009 William Easterly unearths some gems from the US Army Field Manual. It will surely require rewriting in the aftermath of Iraq and Afghanistan. Aid Watch

30.03.2009 The G20 London summit is unrepresentative of the poorest countries who will be most affected by decisions about the world economy. Here's a selection of what African leaders have to say.

24.06.2008 Ahead of a key House of Lords hearing, Sean Carey reflects on the disgraceful way Britain annexed a group of islands and dislodged a people to give the US an airbase.

07.05.2008 UNITED NATIONS, May 7 (OneWorld) - A major U.S.-based humanitarian aid group is urging the Bush administration to revise its aid policy toward Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) and provide immediate assistance to the cyclone victims in that country.

03.05.2008 UNITED NATIONS, May 2 (OneWorld) - The global food crisis is likely to persist if speculative investment by the corporate world is not reined in soon, warned a top expert responsible for reporting to the United Nations on human rights violations.

02.05.2008 UNITED NATIONS, May 1 (OneWorld) - The Canadian government has drawn fierce condemnation from the world's indigenous communities for its refusal to sign an international document that recognizes native people's right to self-determination.

28.04.2008 WASHINGTON, Apr 28 (OneWorld) - Far away and close to home the growing world food crisis is taking a toll. While Americans are increasingly shocked at their rising grocery bills, hunger threatens lives and stability in several developing countries.

25.04.2008 This week's alert on the growing global food crisis is perhaps the most worrying one we've ever sent, says OneWorld's managing editor in the United States.

24.04.2008 WASHINGTON, Apr 24 (OneWorld) - Recording artist Shakira and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined forces this week with millions of students and teachers around the globe calling for redoubled efforts to allow children to attend school.

19.04.2008 NEW YORK, Apr 19 (OneWorld) - The current food crisis causing hunger and starvation for millions of people across the world is not going to end as long as those who dominate the international grain markets remain unwilling to change their behavior, according to experts specializing in international trade and environmental economics.

14.04.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 14 (OneWorld) - Long-time critics of corporate-friendly free trade agreements are applauding House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for effectively putting the brakes on a deal with the South American nation of Colombia.

14.04.2008 NEW YORK, Apr 14 (OneWorld) - The U.S. House of Representatives is likely to endorse a legislative proposal this week calling for the cancellation of debts owed by some of the world's poorest countries.

08.04.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- one in Darfur and the other in Somalia -- are making little or no progress.

07.04.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- one in Darfur and the other in Somalia -- are making little or no progress.

05.04.2008 BANGKOK, Apr 5 (IPS) - Negotiators from the developing world won a significant first round at talks here to shape a new pact to curb global warming. Key among them was the backing to make green-friendly technology and financial assistance priority in a program leading to the pact to be endorsed in 2009.