Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 612
Low Expectations for High-Level Nuke Meet
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 13 (IPS) - The upcoming event at the United Nations is being billed as something politically unique.
DRC Peacebuilding Ignores Local Solutions
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 13 (IPS) - Despite existing local expertise and strategies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to build peace-supporting structures at the community level, official debates and media coverage continue to focus predominantly on military interventions.
Hopeful but Homesick in Peshawar Schools
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 13 (IPS) - "I miss my mother and cry every night," eight-year-old Afaq Ali tells IPS. He is a Class 5 student at the University Public School in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the administrative centre for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to its west.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/Somali President Rides Through a Bumpy Year
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU/NAIROBI, Sep 12 (IPS) - After his first year as president of the world's most dangerous and failed state, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is still grappling with limited financial resources, corruption, a lack of service delivery, and the ongoing assassinations of government officials, including attempts on his own life.
Europe Failing Syrian Refugees
- Inter Press Service
LUCERNE, Switzerland, Sep 12 (IPS) - Refugee rights organisations are demanding an EU-wide temporary protection regime for Syrian refugees. The announcement by some countries that they can take a few thousand refugees is not enough, the groups say.
Israelis Prepare Themselves Regardless
- Inter Press Service
RAMAT GAN, Israel, Sep 12 (IPS) - Unmindful of news of the U.S. delaying its military action on Syria to pursue the Russian plan for international monitors to take control and destroy Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons, Israelis continue to collect their gas mask kits at Home Front Command distribution centres.
Mixed Reactions to Obama’s Embrace of Russian Deal
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - President Barack Obama's decision to put off a vote by Congress on the use of military force against Syria in order to pursue a Russian proposal to place Damascus' chemical-weapons arsenal under international control has evoked both cheers and jeers from across the political spectrum here Wednesday.
Preoccupied with Syria, U.S. Still Saddled with Egypt
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 11 (IPS) - The United States, which is preoccupied with the ongoing political and military developments in Syria, is still saddled with an unresolved problem elsewhere in the Middle East: the military takeover of Egypt's first democratically-elected government.
Even if Syria Complies on Chemical Arms, Six Others Still at Large
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 10 (IPS) - If Syria eventually agrees to relinquish its stockpile of chemical arms under the 1993 international Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), what of the six other countries that have either shown reluctance or refused to join the treaty?
Somalia President Rides Through a Bumpy Year
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU/NAIROBI, Sep 10 (IPS) - After his first year as president of the world's most dangerous and failed state, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is still grappling with limited financial resources, corruption, a lack of service delivery, and the ongoing assassinations of government officials, including attempts on his own life.
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