Languages
Saturday, June 13, 2026
News and Views from the Global South
RIGHTS: Thousands Face Expulsion From France
The French government is poised to expel about 20,000 illegal immigrants, mostly Sub-Saharan Africans, campaigners say. The French move runs contrary to the trend across Europe.ENVIRONMENT: Heat Wave Shows Limits of Nuclear Energy
The extreme hot summer in Europe is restricting nuclear energy generation and showing up the limits of nuclear power, leading environmental activists and scientists say.EUROPE: Global Warming, Not Just Heat Wave
The heat wave sweeping Europe is a direct consequence of the warming of the earth's atmosphere, experts say.RIGHTS-FRANCE: Assault Makes Zidane an Immigrant Hero
French football star Zinedine Zidane could have become a bigger hero among immigrant groups after he brought down Italian player Marco Materazzi with a head butt during the World Cup final in Berlin Jul. 9.SPORT: World Cup Shows Different Faces of Immigration
Anyone unfamiliar with football could be excused for asking whether Italy was playing the World Cup final with France or with a team from Africa.HEALTH: Treatment Plan Takes Off
The French government has added a small tax to national and international air travel to fund a fight against disease in poor countries. A senior minister told IPS that France aims to raise eventually a billion euro a year from the tax.ENVIRONMENT-EUROPE: Gas Pipeline Threatens Fragile Marine Ecosystems
The North European Gas pipeline (NEGP), a Russian-German joint venture to deliver Russian natural gas to Europe in 2010, will destroy rich and fragile marine ecosystems along the Polish and German coastlines, prominent environmental activists say.ENVIRONMENT-FRANCE: Dismantling End-of-Life Ships Requires Global Answers
The asbestos-laden French ship Clemenceau continues to provoke controversy, after being at the heart of an international debate on how and where so-called end-of-life ships should be dismantled.ENVIRONMENT: Acidic Seawater Endangering Marine Life
Carbon dioxide emissions have led to a substantial increase in seawater acidity, endangering marine life, leading scientists say.ENERGY: Not All See Enough Uranium
Uncertainty hovers over the extent of uranium reserves, and over the health and environmental impacts of nuclear power plants.SPORTS: Green Goals for World Cup Nets
With its Green Goal programme, the organisers of the 2006 Football World Cup aim to reduce the environmental impact of the international sports tournament that is expected to draw more than three million spectators in Germany beginning Jun. 9. But environmental groups say the efforts will come up short.
Green Goals for World Cup Nets
The soccer World Cup, being contested this month in Germany, aims to leave behind an ecological legacy. But just one of the 12 stadiums hosting the games comply with all of the environmental standards, say activists.ENVIRONMENT DAY-EUROPE: The Awkward Return of the Brown Bear
Many residents of the Pyrenees, especially shepherds, are afraid of a hungry giant that stands more than two metres tall, weighs up to 200 kilograms, multiplies relatively rapidly and doesn't respect international borders.RIGHTS: When Children Leave On a One-Way Vacation
Felix Moncada Suarez and his family had prepared themselves to board the flight from Roissy airport near Paris for Ecuador capital Quito on the evening of May 19. It was not a flight they wanted to take.
The Awkward Return of the Brown Bear
France, Spain and Andorra are working to reintroduce the brown bear in the Pyrenees Mountains. Fearful residents oppose the effort.RIGHTS: Children Face Expulsion, to Save French Identity
Five-year-old Mariama could be taken away from France Jun. 30. By that date all children of illegal immigrants must leave France, under an order issued October last year.LATIN AMERICA-EU: Modest Accords, Major Discord
The fourth EU-Latin America/Caribbean summit ended Friday in Austria with a few limited agreements to bolster trade, while other free trade negotiations were postponed and there were more doubts than certainties in relations between the two regions.LATIN AMERICA-EU: Transnational Corporations Stand Condemned
The governments of Argentina and Bolivia joined civil society organisations, in the Austrian capital, to accuse European companies of disregarding laws on the environment, civil rights and labour in their operations in Latin America and the Caribbean.LATIN AMERICA-EU: Cooperation or Dependency?
The EU-Latin America/Caribbean summit, to take place Friday in the Austrian capital, will be marked by the contradictions that pervade relations between the two regions. While the governments tout cooperation, civil society organisations complain that it often merely serves to strengthen ties that benefit corporate Europe.LATIN AMERICA-EU: Fair Trade Fills Supermarket Shelves
Bananas from Ecuador, chocolate from Bolivia, coffee from Guatemala and Mexico, sugar from Nicaragua: agricultural products imported from Latin America are increasingly visible on supermarket shelves in the Austrian capital, where the heads of state and government of Europe and Latin America will meet on Friday.LATAM-EU: Another Summit in Vienna
A little more than 190 years ago, from September 1814 until June 1815, European political powers gathered in Vienna to redraw the map of the continent, based on "the principle of legitimacy" rather than rights derived from war.« Previous Page — Next Page »
The Week with IPS
NEXT STOP - SDGs
Tracking global progress towards a sustainable world
Tracking global progress towards a sustainable world
