Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 679
Netanyahu - Unlike Olmert - Refuses Explicit Iran Attack Threat
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 18 (IPS) - The perception that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities unless sanctions and diplomacy succeed in shutting them down has been the driving force in the Iran crisis.
Syria Blast Strikes at Heart of Assad's Rule
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Qatar, Jul 18 (IPS) - Syria's defence minister and interior minister are among those who were killed after a suicide bomber struck the National Security building in Damascus during a meeting of cabinet ministers and senior security officials, state media reported.
Negotiators Lack Focus at Arms Treaty Talks, Observers Warn
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 18 (IPS) - More than halfway through four-week negotiations for a binding treaty to regulate the global weapons trade, observers are warning that the talks are a week behind schedule.
Report Claims No Pakistani Civilian Deaths from Drones in 2012
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 17 (IPS) - Civilian deaths due to drone strikes in Pakistan are falling rapidly, and the death rate is now close to zero - or so asserts a New America Foundation (NAF) report.
Death Stalks Pregnant Women in East Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
MAE SOT, Thailand, Jul 17 (IPS) - From a wooden, weather-beaten building on the edge of this border town, Mahn Mahn charts dangerous missions deep Myanmar (also Burma) for the 2,000-odd health workers under his wing.
A Grim Search for the Missing
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jul 17 (IPS) - A bloody civil war was reaching its climax but this Tamil family, who had already experienced the conflict intimately, had one last decision to make that would prove to be the hardest one of all.
Sudan, South Sudan Resume Talks Amid Doubts for Long-term Success
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 16 (IPS) - Ahead of an Aug. 2 deadline, the leaders of Sudan and South Sudan over the weekend engaged in their first direct talks since hostilities spiked in late April.
Russia Says West Using "Blackmail" over Syria
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Qatar, Jul 16 (IPS) - Russia has said it would block moves at the U.N. Security Council to extend a U.N. monitoring mission in Syria if Western powers did not stop resorting to "blackmail" by threatening sanctions against Damascus.
Human Rights Worse After Gaddafi
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Jul 14 (IPS) - “The human rights situation in Libya now is far worse than under the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi,” Nasser al-Hawary, researcher with the Libyan Observatory for Human Rights tells IPS.
DRC Warlord Sentence a Joke, Say NGOs
- Inter Press Service
KINSHASA, Jul 12 (IPS) - Non-governmental organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo province where Thomas Lubanga Dyilo used children as fighters in his militia in 2002 to 2003 have slammed his 14-year sentence as inadequate – and potentially dangerous.
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