Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 604
Ivoirians Face an Incomplete Justice
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Oct 31 (IPS) - "We are sad. We want our president back," Yao Amandine told IPS from a street corner in the Ivorian economic metropolis, Abidjan, after the International Criminal Court ruled against granting former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo a conditional release on Tuesday.
Fragile Peace Holds on a Syrian Island
- Inter Press Service
QAMISHLI, Syria, Oct 31 (IPS) - "The whole region is under control but be careful in the city centre," says a Kurdish militiaman at the eastern gate of Qamishli, 600 km northeast of capital Damascus, confirming rumours about breaches in Syria's relatively stable northeast.
Women Battle On After Lanka War
- Inter Press Service
BATTICALOA/KILLINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka, Oct 30 (IPS) - The battle might have been over four long years ago, but for the women in Sri Lanka's former conflict zones in the northern and eastern provinces, the war continues.
Caught Between Two Sudans
- Inter Press Service
ABEYI, Oct 30 (IPS) - When Chris Bak returned two weeks ago to the disputed border town of Abyei, which voted this week on whether to join Sudan or South Sudan, he barely recognised it as the place where he grew up. "Everything is dirty," he told IPS. "We were just going around and around, but we didn't this place."
Syrians Under Siege Now in Egypt
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 28 (IPS) - Mahmoud Abu Yousef, 28, sits in one of the suburban subway stations of Egyptian capital Cairo selling socks. He had fled Syria with his wife and one-year-old child this February after his parents and three brothers were killed in the civil war that has been raging in his country since March 2011.
Taliban Waiting to Take Over from the U.S.
- Inter Press Service
Genocide Replaces Separatism in Tamil Diaspora Vocabulary
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 26 (IPS) - Sri Lankan Tamil hopes for a separate state – Tamil Eelam – in the north and east of the island were dashed when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were summarily defeated in May 2009 by government forces.
Four Years after a Tamil Defeat, the Diaspora Regroups
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 25 (IPS) - Seated at a desk piled high with court documents and yellowed newspapers, Visvanathan Rudrakumaran remembers leaving Sri Lanka and coming to New York for the first time, three decades ago.
Pakistan Drone Story Ignored Military Opposition to Strikes
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (IPS) - The Washington Post on Thursday reported what it presented as new evidence of a secret agreement under which Pakistani officials have long been privately supporting the U.S. drone war in the country even as they publicly criticised it.
Q&A “Terrorist Groups Are Killing, Abducting and Displacing Kurdish People”
- Inter Press Service
QAMISHLI, Syria, Oct 25 (IPS) - Kurdish fighters have emerged as a powerful player in the Syrian war thanks to the Yekîneyên Parastina Gel (YPG - "People's Protection Units"), a seemingly well-organised armed group which has so far proved capable of defending the territory it claims in northern Syria.
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