Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 739
U.N. Remains Deadlocked on Defining Terrorism
- Inter Press Service
When Israeli commandos killed nine mostly Turkish activists during a raid on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Palestinians last May, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the attack as a prime example of 'state terrorism'.
Pulling the Plug on Violent Propaganda
- Inter Press Service
A review of modern human history finds no shortage of instances where hate speech has fuelled genocidal rampages against minority ethnic groups.
U.S.: Will Pentagon Be Exempt from Budget Cuts?
- Inter Press Service
With pressure to slash the 1.3 trillion-dollar federal deficit rising sharply, the public debate over whether to exempt the Pentagon from such cuts is moving rapidly toward centre-stage.
UGANDA: Sexual Crimes Go Unpunished
- Inter Press Service
Anna Grace Nakasi, recently chosen to contest next February’s local council elections for Tubur subcounty, in Soroti district in North Eastern Uganda, contracted HIV when she was raped during the war.
POLITICS-JAPAN: Territorial Rows Undercutting Pacifist Stance
- Inter Press Service
Thorny territorial disputes with neighbours China and Russia appear to nudging Japan’s pacifist public toward accepting what has so far been an unpalatable prospect: a more assertive and militarily strong country.
POLITICS: Cambodia, Vietnam Differ from Laos in Cluster Bombs Ban
- Inter Press Service
On a windy morning in southern Laos in November, a team of deminers built a makeshift bunker out of sandbags and piled the barrier around a tiny explosive.
U.S. Envoy Secretly Offered Troops in Iraq after 2011
- Inter Press Service
A special envoy from President Barack Obama raised the possibility in a secret meeting with senior Iraqi military and civilian officials in Baghdad Sep. 23 that his administration would leave more than 15,000 combat troops in Iraq after the 2011 deadline for U.S. withdrawal, according to a senior Iraqi intelligence official familiar with the details of the meeting.
U.S.: Blue-Ribbon Panel Finds AfPak Strategy at 'Critical Point'
- Inter Press Service
The administration of President Barack Obama should begin shifting to a counterterrorism (CT) strategy requiring many fewer troops in Afghanistan if its pending review finds that the current counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy is not working, according to a new report by a bipartisan task force of 25 prominent analysts and former top foreign policy officials.
Community Radio Stations - Lifeline in Disasters
- Inter Press Service
'Community radio stations in Haiti play an indispensable role during catastrophes, and so do women, who can identify the most urgent needs of families during the reconstruction of the country,' said a representative of one of these stations in the Caribbean island nation.
Behind Drone Issue in Yemen, a Struggle to Control Covert Ops
- Inter Press Service
The drone war that has been anticipated in Yemen for the last few months has been delayed by the failure of U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to generate usable intelligence on al Qaeda there.
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