Full Coverage: Geopolitics

31.01.2006 The Head of the European Commission Liaison Office in Kosovo Ambassador Giorgio Mamberto said in an exclusive interview with KosovaLive that the European Union is not going to administrate Kosovo.

31.01.2006 Dr. Ibrahim Rugova was the only political leader in former Yugoslavia who embraced nonviolence, says Transnational Foundation director Jan Oberg, who remains convinced that "had his nonviolent policy won the determined support of the international community in the early 1990s, many lives could have been saved and much suffering avoided."

26.01.2006 International development and rights activist Walden Bello explains how military interventions for 'humanitarian reasons' can cause further human rights violations, be corrupted by political goals, and set a dangerous precedent for the disregard of national sovereignty.

26.01.2006 Brazil's president Lula is not coming to this year's World Social Forum, being held this week in Venezuela. He has a lot of work to do at home to prepare his beleaguered party for November's elections, and his role as champion of Latin America's left may be usurped by one of three local colleagues: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Argentina's Nestor Kirchner, or Bolivia's Evo Morales.

25.01.2006 The president of Oxfam America offers four key suggestions for the U.S. State Department and Agency for International Development to keep in mind during their momentous restructuring, which could pave the way for improving the effectiveness of U.S. foreign aid.

25.01.2006 Citing concerns that senior Sudanese officials have been implicated in war crimes over the continuing conflict in Darfur, a committee of African Union nations has instead elected Congo-Brazzaville's leader to head the continent's organizing body for the next year. To the great chagrin of rights campaigners, Sudan's president will take over the post in 2007, the committee agreed.

25.01.2006 With CIA missiles firing on Pakistani homes, and reports surfacing that the Taliban have taken over large tracts of the country's tribal zone, analysts of the war on terror here say Pakistan's military strategy is in need of a paradigm shift. Intelligence remains too weak, and even pitched battles flexing the military's muscle have shown little effect against an enemy that remains largely unknown, they say.

25.01.2006 Unidentified assailants killed journalist Subramaniyam Sugirdharajan of the Tamil-language newspaper Sudaroli in the port city of Trincomalee on 24 January 2006, a day after he wrote an article about abuses committed by Tamil political organisations. International organisations Free Media Movement (FMM), Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have reported on the incident.

24.01.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan 24 (OneWorld) - New fighting has broken out in Sudan's Darfur region in apparent protest against the Khartoum regime's candidacy to head the African Union (AU). The move comes as the Bush administration prepares to preside over the U.N. Security Council amid calls for it to end the bloody conflict.

24.01.2006 Walter Schwimer, former Secretary General of the Council of Europe, who in March 2004 recommended to the CoE to use “Slavic” instead of “Macedonian”, arrived to Skopje yesterday, but not to apologize, but as an advisor to the Prime Minister.

24.01.2006 Recent remarks by senior U.S. and U.N. officials, as well as by African Union representatives indicate a growing consensus on the need for a U.N. intervention to stop the violence in Darfur, says Africa Action. The group has called on the U.S. to use its chairmanship of the U.N. Security Council in February to push the issue.

24.01.2006 Senior members of the Communist Party of India, along with Pakistani-born British writer and filmmaker Tariq Ali, will lead anti-US protests, labelled Anti-Imperialist Day, in New Delhi on Tuesday. The aim is to mobilise public opinion to demand withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, oppose military action against Iran, North Korea and Syria and express solidarity with the Palestinian people.

23.01.2006 The U.S. must play a pivotal role in slowing population growth in Africa, says a new report from the Council on Foreign Relations, calling for more resources for family planning programs around the world.

23.01.2006 Five heads of state reportedly today told Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to withdraw Sudan's bid for the presidency of the African Union, only days after a leading rights organisation made the same plea.

23.01.2006 Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is expected to visit India in the third week of March at the invitation of her Indian counterpart Dr Manmohan Singh. The talks are expected to cover the entire range of bilateral, regional and international issues.

20.01.2006 Abidjan remains at a standstill and U.N. peacekeepers were forced to retreat from two more bases Thursday after protesters ignored President Gbagbo's plea for peace. The "Young Patriots" are demanding that U.N. and French troops, whom they accuse of inflaming internal conflict, leave the country.

12.01.2006 The choices made by China and India will lead the world towards a future beset by growing ecological and political instability — or down a development path based on efficient technologies and better stewardship of resources, says the Worldwatch Institute's latest State of the World report.

11.01.2006 Many Afghan leaders are worried that the reduction of U.S. troops signals the beginning of the end of Western support for their country, where--unlike Iraq--most still consider American forces a security asset, says regional analyst Ahmed Rashid.

11.01.2006 After the U.S. government missed a year-end deadline to respond to U.N. questions about its treatment of the Western Shoshone people, the indigenous group, who claim their land rights are being trampled in favor of multinational corporate interests, are raising the pressure on the government ahead of a key U.N. meeting on racism in March.

11.01.2006 A week after a massive stroke effectively removed Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from Israeli politics, the outlook in Washington is mostly worried and pessimistic.