News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 311
Banning Nukes Still a Political Fantasy
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 03 (IPS) - The General Assembly's first-ever high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament closed last week on a predictable note: the longstanding proposal for the elimination of nuclear weapons remains firmly in the realm of political fantasy.
Q&A: "Guinea Bissau Is Dangerously Close to Becoming a Failed State”
- Inter Press Service
LISBON, Oct 02 (IPS) - Guinea Bissau is "close to becoming a failed state," but not due to ethnic or religious violence, which has never existed in that small West African nation, argues Nobel Peace laureate and United Nations envoy José Manuel Ramos-Horta.
Q&A: "This Is Not Huntington’s World"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 01 (IPS) - While a fine wine might get better with age, the same is not true for flawed political theories.
Disabled Make Do with Scraps from the Aid Table
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 01 (IPS) - Amidst the incomprehensible suffering that followed the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, international aid agencies rushed to provide services to the displaced and injured.
/CORRECTED REPEAT/Healthcare Loses Support in Somalia
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Sep 30 (IPS) - Maryan Yusuf, 39, is weak and barely able to speak because of her excruciating pain. A few hours earlier she delivered a baby at Somalia's Afgooye Hospital, where essential drugs are dwindling at an alarming rate. 'Interrogating' an Assad Militiaman
- Inter Press Service
MA’ARRET AN-NU'MAN (Idlib Province, Syria), Sep 30 (IPS) - The prisoner is led, handcuffed and dirty, into what until last year served as a school. "A shabiha," said one of the anti-regime rebels in the room. "We found him two days ago at a checkpoint."
More Egyptian Unrest Rises in Social Media
- Inter Press Service
BERKELEY, California, Sep 29 (IPS) - Gory social media images that fueled the global Jihadist influx into Syria 18 months ago are back. But this time the outpouring is coming from Egypt.
Weakening Al-Shabaab Finds New Aggression
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Sep 28 (IPS) - Strong action now expected against the al-Shabaab group may well end up strengthening the group rather than weakening it, local people fear. The extremist group is suspected of involvement in the attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi.
Weakening Al-Shabaab Seeks New Aggression
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Sep 27 (IPS) - Strong action now expected against the al-Shabaab group may well end up strengthening the group rather than weakening it, local people fear. The extremist group is suspected of involvement in the attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi.
Victims Memorial in Spain Awaits Names of the Dead
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Sep 27 (IPS) - A pyramid is being built in the old San Rafael cemetery in the southern Spanish city of Málaga - a monument to thousands of people shot by firing squads here during the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War and the 1939-1975 dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.
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