Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 635
Arms Trade Treaty May Take Years to Be Legally Binding
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 11 (IPS) - When the 193-member General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for a long outstanding Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) last week, there was a lingering question left unanswered: how long will it take to reach the 50 ratifications necessary for the treaty to be legally binding?
Oil Flows Beneath the Battlefield
- Inter Press Service
DERIK, Syria, Apr 11 (IPS) - At seven o'clock in the morning on Mar. 1, Kurdish militias took over the only operational oil refinery in Syria, located about 800 kilometres northwest of Damascus.
Obama Requests Modest Bump in Foreign Aid
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 11 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday asked Congress to approve some 52 billion dollars in foreign aid and international spending in 2014, slightly higher than the current year's budget which was cut due to the partisan impasse over how to reduce the yawning federal deficit.
Moving on from Rwanda’s 100 Days of Genocide
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Apr 07 (IPS) - Bernard Kayumba, the mayor of Karongi district in western Rwanda, remembers just what it was like to be caught up in the genocide that claimed the lives of almost one million people in 100 days 19 years ago.
Tunisia Now Exporting “Jihadis”
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Apr 06 (IPS) - Tunisian families have begun to dread knocks on their doors, or late-night phone calls, fearing that the messenger will bear the news that their son has been smuggled out of the country to join the "jihad" in Syria.
Free Ticket to 'Apartheid'
- Inter Press Service
AZZUN ATME, Occupied West Bank, Apr 06 (IPS) - "At least we are not treated like dogs and made to feel so uncomfortable," Amjad Samara, 30, a labourer from Nablus in the northern West Bank told IPS as he and a group of Palestinians waited at the checkpoint near Qalqilia to cross into Israel for their day job.
Libya Intervention More Questionable in Rear View Mirror
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 05 (IPS) - While the tenth anniversary last month of Washington's invasion of Iraq provoked overwhelmingly negative reviews of the adventure except among its most die-hard neo-conservative proponents, a more recent - albeit far less dramatic and costly - intervention has faded almost completely from public notice.
As Iraq Becomes 'Iran-Like'
- Inter Press Service
MOSUL, Iraq, Apr 04 (IPS) - Armoured vehicles and thousands of soldiers masked in black balaclavas guard the entrance to the city of Mosul, 350 kilometres northwest of Baghdad. Arriving here gives one the unmistakable feeling of entering a territory that is still under occupation – only this time, the Iraqi Federal soldiers, not the U.S. military, play the role of the occupying army, locals tell IPS.
Libyans ‘Fighting Drug Dealers for Our Country’
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Apr 04 (IPS) - In Libya, a dose of LSD or the painkiller tramadol costs 78 cents, and a joint of cannabis is 7.80 dollars. Here, drugs are affordable to the poor for a simple reason. "Slashing prices is a way to create demand and open up a market," a Western diplomat tells IPS in Tripoli, the capital.
BOOKS: Afpak Insider Dissects Obama's Policy Missteps
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 03 (IPS) - Publication this month of Vali Nasr's "The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat" is well-timed.
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