Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 703
Libya's 'Other' Victims
- Inter Press Service
Suleyman and Rasool have come to the University of Bani Walid, in western Libya. If they are lucky they might find some chemistry notes and, perhaps, a computer that works. Unfortunately it is not likely, since NATO reduced the campus to rubble.
KENYA: 'Hold Your Heart' Delayed Justice for Missing Insurgency Victims
- Inter Press Service
Three years after her husband’s disappearance, Phyllis Chamnai Kipkeyo from Mount Elgon, Kenya cannot stop thinking about him. She does not know if he is dead or alive. All she knows is that he was one of the over 300 people said to have disappeared during an insurgency in the region between 2006 and 2008.
U.S.-NORTH KOREA: Persistence Pays Off with 'Rogue' Regimes
- Inter Press Service
The United States and North Korea are resuming the joint search for U.S. soldiers still missing from the Korean War, one of the few positive areas of interaction between two countries estranged for more than 60 years.
U.N. Tally Excluded Most Afghan Civilian Deaths in Night Raids
- Inter Press Service
A July United Nations report asserting that only 30 civilians died in targeted raids in Afghanistan during the first six months of 2011 reflected only a very small fraction of night raids in which civilians were killed, according to officials of the independent Afghan commission which had co-produced the 2010 report on civilian casualties with the U.N. Mission.
COLOMBIA: Election Campaign Marred by Violence
- Inter Press Service
'Political power will be fought for metre by metre in the Oct. 30 local and regional elections in Colombia, because this is a country imbued with violence, with different armies disputing different parts of the territory,' said Alejandra Barrios, director of the election observation mission (MOE).
U.S.-IRAQ: Obama Confirms Full Withdrawal by Christmas
- Inter Press Service
In a decision promptly denounced by Republicans, President Barack Obama announced here Friday that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the Christmas holidays in late December.
DR CONGO: No Hope for Free and Fair Elections
- Inter Press Service
With six weeks to go before the presidential and parliamentary elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, civil society organisations say the elections will not be fair, as many doubt the ability of the country’s electoral authorities to ensure transparency.
U.S.-LIBYA: Obama Claims Vindication
- Inter Press Service
The death of former Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi was hailed here Thursday by both the administration of President Barack Obama and some of his Republican foes as the latest in a series of victories for U.S. foreign policy.
SPAIN: ETA Announces End to Europe's Last Armed Conflict
- Inter Press Service
'This is probably the most important day ever for us, the Basque people, since the death of (dictator) Franco in 1975,' journalist and historian Urko Apaolaza told IPS.
LIBYA: Muammar Gaddafi Killed as Sirte Falls
- Inter Press Service
Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after National Transitional Council fighters overran loyalist defences in Sirte, the toppled Libyan leader's hometown and final stronghold.
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