Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 571
Militarism Should be Suppressed Like Hanging and Flogging
- Inter Press Service
BELFAST, Aug 18 (IPS) - I once asked Dan Berrigan, the great American anti-war activist, for some advice to me in my life as a peace activist. He replied "Pray and Resist".
TB Epidemic Threat Hangs Over Ukraine Conflict
- Inter Press Service
KIEV, Aug 17 (IPS) - Doctors are warning of a worsening tuberculosis epidemic in Eastern Ukraine as the continuing conflict there begins to take a heavy toll on public health.
Trauma Kits and Body Bags Now Fill Aleppo School
- Inter Press Service
ALEPPO, Syria, Aug 16 (IPS) - Volunteer civil defence units operating here in Syria's largest city careen through crater-pocked routes of precariously hanging, pancaked concrete where barrel bombs have struck.
Burning the Future of Gaza’s Children
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Aug 16 (IPS) - "My child became blind and lost the ability to speak, his dad died and his three brothers are seriously wounded. He still has not been told about the loss of his dad," says the mother of 7-year-old Mohamad Badran.
South Sudan Heads towards Famine and Descends into Lawlessness
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, South Sudan , Aug 14 (IPS) - Another deadline has passed. But instead of bringing about peace, the leaders of South Sudan's warring parties have allowed the country to continue its slide toward famine.
No Victors or Vanquished in Brutal Gaza Conflict
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 13 (IPS) - As the dust - and the gunpowder - settles after the month-long devastating conflict in Gaza, there were apparently no victors or vanquished.
OPINION: Islamic State in Iraq: Confronting the Threat
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (IPS) - The Islamic State's territorial expansion and barbaric executions in Iraq and Syria are a gathering threat and must be confronted. American air bombardment, however, is the wrong course of action, and will not necessarily weaken ISIS or DA'ISH, as it's known in Arabic.
U.S. Avoided Threat to Act on Israel’s Civilian Targeting
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (IPS) - United Nations officials and human rights organisations have characterised Israeli attacks on civilian targets during the IDF war on Gaza as violations of the laws of war.
Aleppo Struggles to Provide for Basic Needs as Regime Closes In
- Inter Press Service
ALEPPO, Syria, Aug 11 (IPS) - The single, heavily damaged supply road remaining into the rebel-held, eastern area of the city is acutely exposed to enemy fire.
Qualified Backing for Obama’s Iraq Intervention
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 09 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama's authorisation of limited military action in northern Iraq, announced in a national television address late Thursday night, has so far received support – albeit highly qualified in some cases -- from across the mainstream political spectrum.
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