Global Issues News Headlines for “Arms Control”

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: ‘A New World Order Is Going to Emerge, Whether We like It or Not’

2026-11-13T08:15:53-08:00

CIVICUS discusses the case for United Nations (UN) reform with Heba Aly, director of the Article 109 Coalition, an international civil society network that calls on states to review and update the UN Charter.

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Security Council LIVE: Fragile Gulf calm tested as threats to Hormuz shipping mount

2026-11-13T04:00:00-08:00

Nearly nine months after Israeli and US strikes on Iran set off a regional war, the Gulf remains on a knife edge. Iran has all but closed the Strait of Hormuz, which carried a fifth of the world’s oil before the conflict. Attacks on shipping are rising, and efforts to stop a return to full-scale fighting have yet to produce a deal. The Security Council is meeting at Bahrain’s request to discuss the threat to regional and maritime security. Follow live below – and for full meetings coverage year round, go here.

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DR Congo Ebola outbreak: Unrest fuelled by armed groups holds back response

2026-11-13T04:00:00-08:00

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to spread amid repeated and ongoing deadly attacks on civilians and frontline health workers by armed groups that are obstructing efforts to stop transmission, UN responders said on Friday.

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‘The War Must Stop’: Nobel Peace Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk on the Urgent Need to Protect Ukraine’s Women and Children

2026-11-12T07:52:05-08:00

BENGALURU, India, November 12 (IPS) - Four years after Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, the human cost of the war keeps rising. Even though the global public eye is primarily glued to the progress of the conflict itself, its geopolitical implications and territorial bargaining, the millions of Ukrainian women and children experience the burden of this war that changed their lives and future forever.

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I Sustain My Accusation

2026-11-12T06:56:29-08:00

GENEVA, November 12 (IPS) - This is the final article in a four-part series with related titles, highlighting the responsibility of mainstream media and religious leaders for the world’s current appalling state and the calamities that may await future generations if proper measures are not taken in time. When megalomania is given a “human face,” historical facts are distorted, acts of aggression are whitewashed, unlawful wars are portrayed as vehicles of “democracy, human rights, and morality,” other people’s intelligence is undermined and mocked, bias overshadows international norms, and religion becomes an instrument of bigotry, I sustain my accusation:

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Six killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital

2026-11-12T04:00:00-08:00

An Israeli airstrike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital on Wednesday night killed six people, injured 27 others and caused extensive damage.

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Haiti: More than 1,000 killed between July and September, UN report reveals

2026-11-12T04:00:00-08:00

More than 1,000 people were killed in Haiti during the third quarter of this year, as armed gangs continue to terrorize the population in the capital Port-au-Prince and beyond, the UN team in the island nation, said in its latest human rights report.

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COP31: Why Africa Must Rethink Nuclear Energy

2026-11-11T13:05:44-08:00

ANTALYA, Türkiye, November 11 (IPS) - Gabriel Sheunopa Manyangadze holds a placard reading “No nuclear spin, let renewables win” as a campaigner leads protesters against nuclear energy in Africa at the United Nations climate summit in Antalya, Turkey.

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From Nuclear Weapons to Artificial Intelligence, a New Test of Humanity’s Restraint

2026-11-11T10:36:19-08:00

ASSISI, Italy, November 11 (IPS) - Eight decades after atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world is confronting a new and potentially dangerous question: What happens when decisions involving human life increasingly pass from people to machines?

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Lebanon: After 48 years patrolling the Blue Line, UN peacekeepers prepare exit

2026-11-11T04:00:00-08:00

The situation in southern Lebanon remains volatile and extremely difficult for communities trying to rebuild their lives, UN peacekeepers based there report, despite a significant decrease in hostilities following an agreement in June between the United States, Lebanon and Israel.

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