Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 723
Explosions Greet Nigerian President's New Term
- Inter Press Service
Bomb blasts hit a military base in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi on Sunday, killing ten and injuring more than a dozen just hours after the swearing in ceremony of President Goodluck Jonathan in the capital, Abuja. News reports also said three others died in a bombing in Zuba, just outside the capital.
SRI LANKA: Peace Dividend Skips Remote Villages
- Inter Press Service
The road to Unnichchai in eastern Sri Lanka makes for a nerve-wracking journey trying to avoid large crater-like potholes, squeezing across narrow bridges, and passing by a patchwork landscape of paddy fields - both abandoned and cultivated - with not a building in sight.
New Leadership for the ICC
- Inter Press Service
As the International Criminal Court gears up to elect six judges and a new prosecutor, observers are warning that political rather than merit-based considerations could govern the evaluation of candidates.
GEORGIA: Opposition Rallies in the Face of Repression
- Inter Press Service
More than half of Georgia’s population still lives in abject poverty due to economic stagnation, worsening living standards, rising unemployment and low pay nearly nine years after the 2003 bloodless ‘Rose Revolution’ that promised post-Soviet economic revival, a new political course and better living conditions.
U.S.: House Votes Suggest Growing War Weariness
- Inter Press Service
In a sign of growing war weariness in Congress and among the general public, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted Thursday to bar the deployment of U.S. troops to Libya and narrowly defeated a provision requiring President Barack Obama to submit a plan for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Mideast Uprisings Underlie Falling Peace Index
- Inter Press Service
The world has witnessed a decline in global peace over the last year, according to the 2011 Global Peace Index, or GPI, released by the Institute for Economics and Peace Wednesday.
U.S./SOUTH ASIA: Influential Think Tank Urges Long-Term Commitment
- Inter Press Service
With public and Congressional debate hotting up over post-bin Laden U.S. policy in South Asia, a think tank with close ties to the administration of President Barack Obama is calling for a strategy that will keep Washington deeply engaged in the region for a long time to come.
Arab Spring Solidarity Defies National Boundaries
- Inter Press Service
Ever since the ousting of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, ordinary citizens have been leading uprisings all over North Africa and the Middle East against unwanted rulers. But what is now known as the 'Arab Awakening' is not confined to people resisting within their own borders. Some Arabs are helping the fight in neighbouring countries too.
Tajikistan's New Generation of Guerrillas
- Inter Press Service
While most of the world is closely watching the Middle East, monitoring the human rights situations in Bahrain, Syria, Libya and Israel, the International Crisis Group (ICG) is keeping its eye on neighbouring Central Asia.
Violence Threatening South Sudan Independence
- Inter Press Service
Escalating violence in Abyei, the largest of several towns in the disputed borders between North and South Sudan, has displaced thousands of people and, according to U.S. officials, is threatening the viability of both the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and the soon-to-be independence of Southern Sudan, set for Jul. 9, as the potential for civil war between the two sides grows.
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