More than 70 countries push for cluster bomb ban
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Nearly 70 countries pledged support on Friday for an international ban on cluster bombs, but the world's biggest producers of the munitions, the United States, Russia and China, were not among them.
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World leaders and personalities from some 60 countries Tuesday launched a new UN forum aimed at averting the "predicted clash of civilizations" in the wake of September 11 and other terror attacks.
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Senior officials of 143 governments are calling for the total ban of production and use of anti-personnel landmine. Senior government officials of 143 countries across the world
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Australian's Defence minister Robert Hill calls on Asia-Pacific countries to help combat weapons of mass destruction.
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UNITED NATIONS - Facing a surge of attacks around the globe, the UN Security Council on Friday voted unanimously to step up its campaign against terror but backed away from authorizing a new list of terrorists who could be subject to sanctions and
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Pressure is growing on more nations to implement the Council of Europe's anti-cybercrime treaty.
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As North Korea, South Korea, and Iran raise risks of an arms race, the global challenge to nonproliferation grows.
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OSLO, Norway, Feb 23 (IPS) - Germany and Canada are among a group of  nations  that have opposed a move to ban cluster bombs.
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The United States supports launching negotiations on a global treaty to reduce civilian casualties from cluster bombs, but does not back a ban on the weapons, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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A declaration calling for a 2008 treaty banning cluster bombs was adopted Friday by 46 out of 49 nations attending a conference in Oslo
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NAIROBI (Kenya): Delegates at a major landmine conference in Nairobi on Thursday called on states still outside an international ban to join the treaty, and condemned the continued use of the deadly devices that kill or main some 40 people every day.
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Tens of thousands of people from  around the world gathered in Hiroshima on Sunday to pray for  peace and urge the world to abandon nuclear weapons on the 61st  anniversary of the first atomic bombing.
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Some 70,000 people received weapons training and religious instruction in al-Qaeda camps, the German police says.
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France, Britain and Germany circulated a draft resolution on Monday that calls for the UN nuclear watchdog to notify member states if Iran resumes uranium enrichment activity.
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The 48th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) concluded Friday evening with a call for the prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass
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UNITED NATIONS Dozens of countries are lining up to support UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (KOH&#39;-fee AN&#39;-nan) after Senator Norm Coleman called for Annan&#39;s resignation.
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More than 130 former world leaders, politicians and Nobel laureates call for urgent efforts to find Arab-Israeli peace.