Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 709
CIA's Push for Drone War Driven by Internal Needs
- Inter Press Service
When David Petraeus walks into the Central Intelligence Agency Tuesday, he will be taking over an organisation whose mission has changed in recent years from gathering and analysing intelligence to waging military campaigns through drone strikes in Pakistan, as well as in Yemen and Somalia.
SRI LANKA: Less Guns Mean More Food
- Inter Press Service
As paddy cultivation revives in Sri Lanka’s former war zones, prospects for the island’s food security have improved dramatically.
Q&A: 'Civilians Must Not Suffer the Effects of the Armed Conflict' in Colombia
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous people in the province of Cauca in southwest Colombia want their territory to be free of war, and are organising a protest march to demand that the police and military close down their bases and the guerrillas abandon their camps in the native reservations in the north of this mountainous province.
NIGERIA: Lax Security Reason for U.N. Bombing
- Inter Press Service
Security experts say that unless something is done to regulate the high level of illicit transactions and proliferation of commercial explosives in Nigeria, scenes like the United Nations suicide bombing will become more frequent.
U.S.-LIBYA: Debate Stoked Over 'Leading From Behind'
- Inter Press Service
As rebels moved to consolidate control over a post-Gaddafi Libya, foreign policy analysts here are debating whether Washington's role in the nearly six-month civil war in the oil-rich North African nation marks a new model for military intervention and 'regime change' in objectionable countries.
U.N. Set to Take International Lead in Post-Gaddafi Libya
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations appears poised to play a major role in Libya in the coming days and months. It remains unclear, however, if the world body will be able to restore peace and democracy in that conflict-ridden oil-rich country, independent analysts and diplomats say.
NEPAL: Fasting Against Corruption Spreads
- Inter Press Service
Inspired by Indian socialist leader Anna Hazare’s celebrated public fast against corruption in the Indian capital of New Delhi, starvation protests have sprung up in Nepal to press for a timely new constitution.
COLOMBIA: Risky Games Against National Peace Meeting
- Inter Press Service
One of Colombia's most popular national radio stations broadcast the wiretapped telephone conversations of a leader of a regional movement of displaced persons, David Martínez, misreporting that the voices heard were those of 'guerrilla ringleaders'.
Afghan Security Faces Long-Term Challenges
- Inter Press Service
U.S.-led efforts to build Afghan security forces capable of preventing Taliban resurgence face a series of challenges, from the reluctance of southern Pashtuns to serve in a national army, to maintaining the billions of dollars in infrastructure and equipment provided by the U.S. and other foreign countries over the past decade.
Watchdogs Blast Ethnic Cleansing in South Kordofan
- Inter Press Service
On Jun. 19, Angelo al-Sir, a subsistence farmer from a small village east of Kadugli, capital of the oil-rich South Kordofan state in Northern Sudan, saw his pregnant wife, two of his 10 children, his nephew and another relative killed in an airstrike in broad daylight.
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