Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 693
Obama to Pro-Israel Lobby Group: 'Too Much Loose Talk of War'
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama Sunday made a clear statement against a rush to war - either by the U.S. or Israel - with Iran, while also emphasising that he would pursue that option if alternatives were unsuccessful in ensuring that Iran would not develop a nuclear weapon.
Pakistan's Hospitals That Come Home
- Inter Press Service
With no money to see a doctor, Gul Lakhta,50, had resigned himself to blindness when a ‘mobile hospital’ drove into his village in the Bajaur Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), on Pakistan’s rugged border with Afghanistan.
Suicides Surge in Kashmir
- Inter Press Service
On Feb. 6, a young girl committed suicide by swallowing poison at her home in Kashmir. A few weeks later a teenaged girl from Srinagar hung herself at her residence.
Israeli Poll on Iran Undercuts Netanyahu on Eve of Major Meet
- Inter Press Service
On the eve of a critical set of meetings here between top U.S. and Israeli officials, a new survey finds little backing among the Israeli public for a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities without Washington's approval.
Syria Stalls Senior U.N. Official's Visit to War Zone
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations, which remains politically deadlocked over the drawn-out crisis in Syria, has hit another roadblock, this time over humanitarian assistance to the thousands of men, women and children caught up in the 11-month-old conflict.
Sri Lanka Rattled by Planned UN Rights Resolution
- Inter Press Service
Strung across the main road leading away from the international airport is a banner that has an intriguing message: ‘USA, Pls Do Not Support Terrorism’.
INDIA: Kashmir Missing Its 'Demographic Dividend'
- Inter Press Service
Kashmir is missing out on a ‘demographic dividend’ and unable to cash in on its youthful population for lack of initiatives from a state government bogged down by a two-decade-old separatist insurgency.
‘When’ to Attack Iran, Not ‘If’
- Inter Press Service
'The quiet before the storm' is how Israeli pundits describe the countdown — not to Israel going solo on Iran’s nuclear and military installations, but to the meeting between due Monday next week between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
U.S.: Growing Pessimism on Afghanistan After Quran Burning
- Inter Press Service
While top officials in the Barack Obama administration insist that U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is working, the violent aftermath of last week's apparently inadvertent burning of copies of the Quran at a military base is fuelling growing pessimism about the U.S. and NATO mission there.
NGOs Urge 'Solution from Within' for Somalia
- Inter Press Service
While the international community discusses Somalia's future in London and Brussels, European and Somali non-governmental organisations are calling for a radical shift from a military to a humanitarian approach as the only solution to the country's war-torn condition.
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