Swiss Peaceniks Petition for Arms Export Ban
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Swiss pacifists are demanding an end to arms exports and today released a flight of doves outside parliament in the capital, Berne, to draw attention to a call for a ban on arms exports. The action coincided with the handing-in of signatures for a people's initiative which will give the Swiss voters the final say on the issue.  The backers of the initiative chose World Peace Day to hand in 109,000 signatures they collected, and celebrated with a flag-waving rally on Parliament Square. "Swiss weapons kill - worldwide" the authors of the initiative say. They want to outlaw the export and transfer of all military material, including technology that can be used for the development, production and use of weapons.
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Thousands of protesters marched through  Taiwan's capital on Saturday, urging the government to scrap a  big U.S. weapons package they said would trigger an arms race  with China and squeeze social welfare.
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The maker of stun guns comes under fire from Amnesty International.
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Switzerland's army is hardly known for its aggressive stance but this did not stop 170 armed soldiers crossing the border into Liechtenstein at the dead of night, red-faced Swiss military officials said Friday.
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Gun control activists, health care  advocates and law enforcement groups geared up on Tuesday for a  last-ditch effort to prevent a 1994 ban on assault weapons from  expiring next week, but even its most ardent backers  acknowledge the drive is all but futile.
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The Swiss parliament's biggest party pushes for a national ban on minarets.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast African leaders are backing an immediate arms embargo against Ivory Coast as well as a travel ban and freezing of assets.
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The European Union says it is not yet ready to lift a 15-year-old ban on selling arms to China, but is working toward that goal. The arms embargo dominated a one-day EU-China summit in the Netherlands that
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The European Union urged China to strengthen human rights as the EU considers ending a 15-year-old arms embargo that denies weapons makers such as BAE Systems Plc access to the growing Chinese market.
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Wildlife campaigners promote a test kit to help enforce the ban on the international trade in bear products.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. UNITED NATIONS -- France circulated Sunday a UN draft resolution calling for an arms embargo against Ivory Coast
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Amnesty International today published an open letter from Irene Khan, Amnesty's Secretary General, to EU Heads of State and governments asking them to immediately halt sales or transfers of arms to all parties in the Israel/Palestine conflict. Israel, naturally, reacted negatively to the proposal. Mark Regev, spokesman for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that an arms embargo "would leave every man woman and child in this country to face a multitude of hostile challenges that there are here. It ignores the real threats faced by the Jewish state and gives comfort to those who say Israel should be wiped off the map."
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OSLO -- Representatives from 48 nations yesterday launched a global effort to ban the use, production and stockpiling of cluster bombs by the end of next year, despite the opposition of several of the world's major military powers.
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Taipei - Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Taipei Saturday afternoon, urging the local government to scrap a historical high US weapons package, which the protesters complained would trigger a bitter arms race with the Chinese mainland and
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The United States, Britain and France want U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to pursue ways to stop weapons flowing into Lebanon over the Syrian border, according to a draft U.N. statement on Tuesday.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder wants to lift the European Union's weapons embargo against Beijing.
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BRUSSELS : European Union (EU) officials agreed in principle to lift an arms embargo on Libya after pressure from Italy. Italy has for several months been pressing its EU counterparts to lift the embargo imposed