Full Coverage: Geopolitics

22.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 22 (OneWorld) - The number of people making asylum claims in the United States, Japan, Australia, and Europe continues to decline, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) reported this week, but that doesn't mean fewer people are fleeing their homes as refugees.

15.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 15 (OneWorld) - Dozens of South Koreans took to the streets of Washington, DC Thursday in support of small farmers forced to relocate to make way for a massive new U.S. military base in their country. President George W. Bush was meeting with his South Korean counterpart just steps away in the White House at the time.

13.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 13 (OneWorld) - The Bush Administration is objecting to a groundbreaking treaty that set up a nuclear weapon-free zone in Central Asia.

12.09.2006 Despite its importance, consideration of foreign debt over the last few years has been diffuse and blurred. Whereas in the 1980s foreign debt was the focus of argument, twenty years later it appears as a marginal issue, as much in discussion of public policy on the development financing of alternatives to the current model as in critical theory.

06.09.2006 LIMA, Peru, Sep 5 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration has announced it may revoke trade preferences from three large South American countries in a move some experts believe is designed to pressure them to consent to free trade agreements with the United States.

05.09.2006 After more than a week of fighting with the Tamil Tigers, the Sri Lankan Army Monday captured a strategically important rebel position. The Tigers retreated from Sampur without much resistance, following days of pounding from the military's Israeli-made Kfir jets.

05.09.2006 Há poucas semanas me ocupei com três livros apavorantes. O primeiro do astrônomo inglês Martin Rees, Hora final, o desastre ambiental ameaça o futuro da Humanidade, o segundo do astrofísico e médico James Lovelock, formulador da teoria da Terra como superorganismo vivo, Gaia, A vingança de Gaia e o terceiro O relatório da CIA: como será o mundo em 2020.