Weapons amnesty begins positively
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Shi&#39;ite militia fighters backing the radical Iraqi cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, are handing in weapons at the start of a deal with the Iraqi interim Government to end months of violence.
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Brazilian police hail the  success of a campaign to cut gun crime by buying back weapons.
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Russia on Thursday carried out a successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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The Bush Administration has said that it is ready to offer amnesty to &quot;non-criminal&quot; remnants of the Taliban holed up in different pockets across Afghanistan.
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Libya achieved Monday a new major political victory by the EU decision fully and finally lifting the embargo on selling and exporting weapons to Libya imposed since 1986.
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BAGHDAD: Fighters in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City slum announced yesterday a deal to trade in their weapons for cash and to stop attacking US and Iraqi forces, raising hopes for an end to violence in the war-ravaged district.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shiite fighters in tracksuits and sneakers unloaded cars full of machine guns, mortars and land mines Monday as a five-day, weapons-for-cash disarmament program kicked off in Baghdad's Sadr City district - a sign of progress in the center of Shiite resistance in Iraq.    A lasting peace in the sprawling slum would allow U.S...
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PLO chairman Mahmud Abbas has voiced optimism that armed Palestinian groups will respond to his call to lay down weapons. &quot;There has been progress in the negotiations with Palestinian factions about ending
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Anti-arms campaigners on Thursday ratcheted up their campaign for an international treaty to curb the arms trade with an exhibition of photographs of the aftermath of gun violence.
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The government will announce a nationwide amnesty for firearms, which will be held later this year, in the wake of four murders in London, a newspaper has reported.
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Strikes against rocket launch sites are first since Hamas took control last week.
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President Hugo Chavez granted amnesty Monday to those accused of involvement in a failed 2002 coup that briefly drove him from power.
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Pakistan Tuesday successfully test-fired a ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads as part of its efforts to boost its defenses, a military statement said.
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The U.S. government is on its way to  brokering about $20 billion in arms sales in the fiscal year  that began October 1, steady with last year's near-record  total, the Pentagon official responsible for such sales said on  Monday.
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Spain is poised to offer hundreds of  thousands of illegal immigrants a fresh start thanks to a  partial amnesty, at the same time allowing officials to keep  better tabs on its foreigners after the March 11 bombings.
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Talks on North Korea's nuclear programs resumed on a positive note Thursday, with the Chinese hosts distributing a draft agreement and the North agreeing in principle to initial steps to disarm.
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TURBO, Colombia : Some 450 Colombian paramilitaries handed over weapons, the first of at least 3,000 right-wing fighters due to surrender their arms as an initial gesture in a peace deal.