Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 666
Q&A: “Women's Participation in Peace Processes Is Still Very Small”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 21 (IPS) - Friday is not just any day – it's the International Day of Peace. Concerts, debates and moments of silence will be held all over the planet to commemorate the ideal of global truce and tolerance.
Saving Libya From its Saviours
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Sep 21 (IPS) - The dark rain clouds and circling military helicopter accentuated the mood of the small, sombre crowd gathered in Tripoli’s Martyr’s Square to commemorate Libya’s dead heroes.
Taliban Outflank U.S. War Strategy with Insider Attacks
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON/KABUL, Sep 20 (IPS) - Sharply increased attacks on U.S. and other NATO personnel by Afghan security forces, reflecting both infiltration of and Taliban influence on those forces, appear to have outflanked the U.S.-NATO command’s strategy for maintaining control of the insurgency.
Murder Tops Crimes by Women in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Sep 20 (IPS) - The number of Afghan women being jailed for murder has been increasing every year, officials say. More than a quarter of the 700 women in prison are serving murder sentences.
Egyptian Christians in Uneasy Safety
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Sep 20 (IPS) - Many of Egypt's Coptic Christians met the recent assumption of the presidency by the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi with trepidation, even panic – some even made plans to leave the country. Almost three month's into Morsi's term, these fears, say some experts, appear largely unfounded.
Uganda’s ‘Haunted’ Children Slow to Receive Medical Help
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Sep 20 (IPS) - On a wet earth littered with fresh fruit from a large mango tree in Tumangu village in northern Uganda, Betty Olana (42) sits on a papyrus mat watching over four emaciated children infected by the mysterious nodding syndrome that leaves victims mentally challenged and nodding repeatedly when they see food or cold water.
Donors Urged to Give Space to New Somali Govt
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 20 (IPS) - Both the U.S. government and the United Nations warned Wednesday that new fighting in a key rebel-held area of Somalia needed to ensure the safety of civilians, in a battle that could be a critical turning point following the country’s recent surprise election results and decades of lawlessness.
Female Suicide Bomber Strikes Kabul Bus
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Sep 18 (IPS) - A suicide car bomber has killed 12 people in the Afghan capital, nine of them foreigners, officials said, in an early-morning attack claimed by an armed group which said it sent a female attacker to avenge an anti-Islam film.
Separated, And Cohabitating For Now
- Inter Press Service
SHEIKH JARRAH, Occupied East Jerusalem, Sep 18 (IPS) - “See the bullets from the 1948 and 1967 wars,” Badr Abu Ad-Dula says, showing the scars of the old frontline on the outer walls of the building where he and his family of 13 live. “Here’s the Jordanian outpost.” The elderly Palestinian points at a loophole, now a bedroom window.
Amid Tension in Islamic World, U.N. Chief Pleads for Harmony
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 17 (IPS) - Amidst growing political tensions in the Islamic world over a video caricature of the Prophet Muhammad originating in the United States, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is making an “urgent “plea for political harmony worldwide.
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