Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 648
Obama to Accelerate Handover to Afghan Army
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (IPS) - President Barack Obama announced Friday that U.S. forces will accelerate the transfer of primary security responsibilities to their Afghan counterparts and take on an exclusively support and training role beginning this spring.
U.S. Urged to Stem Broader Ethnic Violence in Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (IPS) - Worried over the possibility of further escalation of armed conflict in Myanmar, activists here are calling on Washington to take stronger action to condemn state forces for aerial bombardment of ethnic Kachin rebels and civilians in the country's north, which some say constitutes crimes against humanity.
Netanyahu Suffers for Being Too Popular
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Jan 11 (IPS) - "We feel like we finally live a normal life in a normal country," marvelled a popular radio host. Normalcy – this rare appreciation by Israelis of the privilege to indulge in small talk about the stormy weather that's wreaked the whole region – is so abnormal here.
Slum Dwellers Say "No" to Blood Money
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jan 10 (IPS) - With less than two months before Kenyans head to the polls for what is shaping up to be the most competitive and polarised general election in the country's history, many fear that this East African country of over 40 million has not seen the last of electoral violence.
Education Fights Militants and Military
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 10 (IPS) - Eight-year-old Muhammad Akram was forced to quit school when he was in the second grade, when the Taliban destroyed the small, government-run school that he and his brother had been attending.
Historic Mapuche Land Conflict Flares Up
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Jan 08 (IPS) - A string of attacks in the southern Chilean region of Araucanía, where native Mapuche people are struggling for their land rights, puts the spotlight squarely on what analysts call the "supine ignorance" displayed by authorities about the country's history.
Obama Nominates Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIA
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 08 (IPS) - Rounding out his second-term foreign policy picks, U.S. President Barack Obama Monday nominated former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon and his top counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan, to direct the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Major Test for Israel Lobby As Obama Leans to Hagel for Pentagon
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 05 (IPS) - With President Barack Obama reportedly primed to nominate former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon early next week, the powerful Israel lobby, led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), faces a major dilemma.
OP-ED: The Arab Spring at Two: What Lessons Should We Learn?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 04 (IPS) - As the Arab Spring enters its third year, new Arab democracies and the international community should reflect on several critical lessons from the past two years.
Groups Decry Obama’s Failure to Close Guantanamo
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 04 (IPS) - Human rights groups are denouncing President Barack Obama's failure to veto a defence bill that will make it far more difficult for him to fulfill his four-year-old pledge to close the Guantanamo detention facility this year.
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