Gov't to announce gun amnesty
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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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Malaysia has extended an amnesty for illegal immigrants to leave the country until Jan. 31, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Wednesday, in a gesture of sympathy to Asian nations ravaged by a tsunami. More than 69,000 people have been killed in the region and thousands left homeless after a powerful undersea earthquake off Indonesia's island of Sumatra triggered the weekend tsunami.
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It is not clear however, who will represent Slovakia at the ceremony. Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda will definitely not attend, although the Hungarian and Bulgarian prime ministers have already confirmed ...
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HARARE - The Zimbabwe government will not invite âimperialistâ countries to observe its elections due to be held in March next year, a Saturday newspaper quoted President Robert Mugabe as saying.
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Iraq's interim government will declare  a nationwide arms amnesty next week, but insists the city of  Falluja must turn in foreign militants or face assault,  National Security Adviser Kassim Daoud said on Monday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haiti's prime minister on   Friday asked Washington to lift the 15-year-old arms embargo   that bars the troubled Caribbean country from buying U.S.   weapons for its ill-equipped police force.
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Taiwan's lawmakers are expected to give their long-delayed approval next month to a special budget for U.S. weapons purchases worth as much as &#36;15 billion, Taiwan's point man on China policy said on Wednesday.
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Private investigators hired by the city to conduct sting operations on out-of-state gun shops could be breaking the law, and the dealers they caught making illegal sales will not be prosecuted, federal officials said Thursday.
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LONDON, Feb. 18 -- Prime Minister Tony Blair announced Sunday that he wanted to lower to 17 the age at which a mandatory five-year sentence could be imposed for illegally possessing a gun. The announcement followed the shooting deaths of three teenagers.
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Gerry Adams, leader of Northern Ireland&#39;s largest nationalist party, signaled that an accord on paramilitary weapons was unlikely to be announced, reducing the chances the province&#39;s
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South Africa has a new gun-ownership law, and since it took effect, weapons dealers and users have become upset as firearms sales have dropped to near zero.
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Iraq&#39;s interim government says it will extend the weapons handover program for Sadr City, a Baghdad slum rife with anti-US sentiments, and will soon extend the arms amnesty program nationwide.
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The government is expected to signal it is ready to recognise the Ulster Defence Association ceasefire.
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Iraq's interim government will declare  a nationwide arms amnesty next week, but insists the city of  Falluja must turn in foreign militants or face assault,  National Security Adviser Kassim Daoud said Monday.
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The protocol signed in 2002 in Kishinev, Moldova, on joint antiterrorist measures to be taken in the CIS territory due to be discussed in Armenian Constitutional Court on Friday was postponed till October 5 ...
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In Tuesday&#39;s national briefs, Amnesty International is concerned about the rising death toll from taser guns, the penalty phase of the Scott Peterson double murder trial gets underway, and more.
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The government is likely to bring in new anti-corruption laws in the wake of bribery allegations against the country&#39;s largest arms manufacturer, Solicitor General Vera Baird told parliament Monday.