International Agreement Calls On Member States To Curb Military Sonar And Other Noise Technology
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In the third recent international government action calling for limits on the use of high intensity military sonar, the 16 member states of the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, ...
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Science & environment: An armada of robot submarines and marine sensors are to be deployed across the Atlantic
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BRUSSELS -- European Union states should clamp down on radical imams and Internet "hate speech" and train police and teachers on the dangers of Islamist militancy, according to a confidential plan seen by Reuters.
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A UN campaign launched in Greece is urging people living on the Mediterranean coast to stop treating the sea as a dustbin.
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The US is threatening to withhold military technology considered crucial to the health of the UK defence industry as the row over European moves to lift the arms embargo on Beijing intensifies.
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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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The US and Japan have signed a new agreement on missile defense programs. It&#39;s considered a key step in carrying out new defense guidelines that ease Tokyo&#39;s pacifist stance, which is outlined in its constitution.
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Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement Friday on rough targets aimed at getting some of the world's biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
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The British Medical Association is to call for international action to curb advancements in the development of biological and genetic weapons.
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Conservationists on Wednesday blasted President Bush's decision to exempt the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using high-power sonar in its training off Southern California Â a practice they say harms whales and other marine mammals.
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DELEGATES from more than 140 countries gathered yesterday seeking to eliminate and ban landmines that kill or maim up to 20,000 people a year worldwide.
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UNITED NATIONS -- In a highly anticipated report prompted by the deep divide over the war in Iraq, an international panel made 101 recommendations yesterday on how to deal with global threats in the 21st century including the use of preemptive and preventive military strikes with approval from the UN Security Council.
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European Parliament members issued a declaration Wednesday demanding the European Union ban the import of seal products to protest Canada's seal hunt.
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A glance at the main elements of the Conventional Forces Treaty in Europe:
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A naval exercise off the Australian coast using submarine-hunting sonar could kill whales or cause them to become stranded, the International Whaling Commission warned in a report.
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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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An international treaty aimed at curbing tobacco sales and advertising is set to come into force.