Full Coverage: Geopolitics

25.05.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 (OneWorld) - Though President George W. Bush's plan to send 6,000 members of the National Guard to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border is meeting with little resistance in Washington, residents of the Texas border town of Redford are not so easily convinced.

25.05.2006 LUSAKA, ZAMBIA, May 23 (OneWorld) - Africa Freedom Day, which falls on May 25th, is a day in which as Africans we observe the creation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and pay tribute to the Heads of State, who through a common vision of unity, decided to seek a joint African solution to the dichotomy facing Africa in the 1960s.

19.05.2006 The working group on Chapter 27: Environment, which is part of the Croatian negotiation team for accession to the EU is close to completing the bilateral indepth screening. The process, taking place in Brussels, started on May 15, 2006. The topic of this session related to approximation and transfer of EU environmental directives into Croatian national legislation. Ljiljanka Mitos Svoboda, President of Osijecki Zeleni reports from Brussels.

19.05.2006 Peter Gantz's article suggesting a NATO force to arrest the Darfur genocide is one of the few concrete suggestions for actually defeating genocide. Sadly, the UN seems incapable of...

11.05.2006 UNITED NATIONS, May 10 (OneWorld) - The world's leading rights advocacy groups have welcomed the results of Tuesday's elections at the United Nations that have led to the formation of a new international leadership to defend human rights.

08.05.2006 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, May 8 (ENS) - Brazil has inaugurated its first uranium enrichment facility to produce the type of fuel for nuclear power plants that Iran is running into trouble for attempting to produce. There are strong suspicions that the objective of the Iranian nuclear program is to eventually build a bomb, but Brazil has managed to assure the international community its intentions are industrial and commercial, not military.

05.05.2006 NEW YORK, May 5 (OneWorld) - In a gesture of defiance to the Bush administration, lawmakers responsible for deciding budgetary allocations for defense from both major political parties have decided to cut some of the funding for the controversial National Missile Defense (NMD) system and space weapons research.

04.05.2006 India and Pakistan have agreed to open the Line of Control (LoC) which divides Kashmir to trade by launching a truck service between the two sides.

02.05.2006 The leaders of Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia signed a "People's Trade Treaty" Saturday to counter a US-led drive to forge a Pan-American free trade area.