Bosnian gun lottery scheme ends
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A UN scheme to get Bosnians to trade in their illegal weapons for lottery tickets finishes.
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Colombian soldiers killed 5 rebels in a gun battle as the army broke up an extortion scheme in which the guerrillas demanded protection money from a cousin of former President Cesar Gaviria, authorities said on Friday.
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The Irish Republican Army abandoned its longtime opposition to disarmament on Thursday, pledging to get rid of its weapons by the end of the month.
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The Serious Fraud Office has ended its corruption inquiry into a Â£6bn fighter plane deal with Saudi Arabia.
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The pharmaceutical's settlement ends a government probe.
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Police in London took the wraps off a specially commissioned work of art made entirely of firearms surrendered by the public during a gun amnesty.
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BUCHAREST, Romania - A man who went to prison three years ago for claiming that he was robbed of Romania's biggest ever lottery prize has won a new lottery jackpot - this time for real.
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A Bosnian immigrant was convicted Wednesday on charges he concealed his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre so he could get into the United States but was acquitted of other charges.
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CHARLESTON, South Carolina  -- A guns-drawn raid at a high school last year did not violate civil rights laws and the case is closed, the US Justice Department said.
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THE Israeli army ended its 17-day-long incursion into the Gaza Strip over the weekend after carrying out its assignment to exact a price for the firing of rockets by Hamas at towns inside Israel.
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In exchange, the rebels were paid for the weapons and U.S. commanders agreed to halt military operations against the group.
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina  - The prime minister of the Serbian half of Bosnia resigned Friday, a day after the U.S. government and Bosnia's top international administrator sanctioned Bosnian Serbs for failing to arrest and hand over war crimes suspects to the UN tribunal.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina BANJA LUKA -- Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, a Bosnian Serb commission conceded yesterday in its final report on the 1995 massacre. Bosnian Muslim officials claim that up to 8,000 men and boys were killed at Srebrenica in July 1995, when Serb troops overran the UN-declared safe zone in Europe's worst ...
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BUCHAREST, Romania  - A man who went to prison three years ago for claiming that he was robbed of Romania's biggest ever lottery prize has won a new lottery jackpot - this time for real.
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MOSCOW, July 14 -- Russia on Saturday formally suspended its participation in a conventional arms treaty dating from the last years of the Cold War that limits NATO and Russian military deployments in Europe.
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HOPES of a final breakthrough to end paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland collapsed within sight of success yesterday. With agreement close, and the IRA having at last agreed to give up all its weapons
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The EU has ended 11 years of sanctions against Libya and eased an arms embargo to reward the country for giving up plans to develop weapons of mass destruction.