Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Praful Bidwai NEW DELHI, May 2 (IPS) – Relations between India and Iran, which deteriorated over the past three years from traditional friendship and warmth into mutual suspicion and tension, have started looking up again. [...]
US/IRAN: Changing of the Guard Key to Talks
Global News Blog / IPS Tuesday, April 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Omid Memarian* BERKLEY, California, Apr 29 (IPS) – A week after Senator Hillary Clinton’s harsh remarks that if hardliners in Tehran were to launch an attack on Israel, it would result in the ”total obliteration” of [...]
AUSTRALIA: Seeking a Bigger Global Role
AUSTRALIA: Seeking a Bigger Global Role Global News Blog / IPS Tuesday, April 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Apr 29 (IPS) – Recent overseas trips by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd are said to have projected a more robust image of Australia onto the [...]
US/MIDEAST: Palestinian Negotiators Go Home Frustrated
Global News Blog / IPS Monday, April 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Khody Akhavi WASHINGTON, Apr 28 (IPS) – Five months after the U.S. hosted the Annapolis conference to push for a decisive Israeli-Palestinian peace, negotiations between the two sides have shown no visible progress. As President George [...]
