Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 526
‘Worse Than World War I’
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Mar 14 (IPS) - When the leaders of 28 European states enjoy again this week their exclusive flights, luxurious suites and official limousines, to meet for a new summit in Brussels to adopt a final decision on their proposed plan of using refugees as bargaining chips, 20.000 Syrians will most probably be still starving in the Idomeni camp in Greece, in a situation that has been described as "worse than World War I."
Turkey’s Crackdown on the Press
- Inter Press Service
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Mar 14 (IPS) - On the evening of March 4, heavily armed police forced their way into the headquarters of the Turkish daily Zaman. The hundreds of protesters that had gathered in front of the building in an Istanbul suburb in solidarity with their newspaper were violently dispersed.
“Take My Iraqis and Give Me Some Syrians” - Europe to Turkey
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Mar 08 (IPS) - In a yet another violation of international laws and their own human values, 28 European countries have just agreed with Turkey to open a new "bazaar" of refugees, this time using the old barter system. i.e. Iraqis and Afghans in exchange of Syrians.
CTBTO to Install Two Nuclear Monitoring Stations in Ecuador
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 07 (IPS) - The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO), based in Vienna, will soon install two new monitoring stations in Ecuador.
CTBTOs Executive Secretary Dr Lassina Zerbo told IPS the two stations in Ecuador, RN 24 and IS 20, "will brings us an important step closer to the completion of the International Monitoring System – the network that monitors the globe 24/7 for signs of nuclear explosive testing."
Anti-Mining Protests in Turkey Book Temporary Victory
- Inter Press Service
ARTVIN, Turkey, Mar 04 (IPS) - Over the past weeks, thousands of people across Turkey have protested against the planned construction of a gold mine in Cerattepe, close to the town of Artvin in the northeast of the country. Protesters fear that the mine will cause irreparable damage to the unique natural environment of the region.
Tanzania Farmers, Pastoralists Launch Forum to Resolve Water Conflicts
- Inter Press Service
PAWAGA, Tanzania, Mar 03 (IPS) - At a remote village of Itunundu in Iringa, farmers and pastoralists recently met to discuss the best way to share land resources while charting out a strategy to prevent unnecessary fights among themselves. No one in the village ever imagined that this meeting would ever take place as the two groups had for long considered themselves enemies: they often clashed for water and pastures to feed their animals thus causing deaths and loss of property.
Exorcising Stalin
- Inter Press Service
Schools are in for Summer
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Mar 02 (IPS) - "We are extremely jubilant over the rebuilding of our school that the Taliban destroyed it in 2013, due to which we used to sit without a roof," Mujahida Bibi, a student of 8th grade in Government Girls Middle School North Waziristan Agency, told IPS.
New Nuclear Hysteria in the Middle East
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Feb 29 (IPS) - Three years ago when the tsunami of panic around Iran's potential capability to develop nuclear weapons reached its peak, a combined diplomatic, media campaign warning that a Gulf Arab state would think of purchasing atomic bombs was spread like an oil spot.
Malawi's Refugee Crisis
- Inter Press Service
BLANTYRE, Malawi, Feb 25 (IPS) - Imagine fleeing from your home because you feel unprotected by the people who are required to so by law. And when you get to where you feel safer, the very same people come to persuade your keepers to let you come back with them, claiming you are running away from nothing! Well, this is the situation some 5,800 Mozambican nationals have found themselves in. Hundreds of them, including unaccompanied children, have been fleeing from Tete Province, near the Malawi border, since late last year following renewed fighting between government forces and opposition Renamo fighters.
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