RIGHTS:  'Progressive' Nations Insist on Cluster Bombs
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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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WASHINGTON -- The United States said yesterday that Israel may have violated an agreement with Washington in its use of US-made cluster bombs during July's war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
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SANTIAGO  - Leaders of the Asia-Pacific axis promised a hard crackdown on terror and united against North Korean nuclear weapons program at a summit in Chile, but they ducked a radical new plan for region-wide free trade.
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TEHRAN (MNA) -- The proposal by the European Union big three states of France, Germany and Britain, which would require Iran to give up its program to develop the complete nuclear fuel cycle, is quite illegal and runs counter to the nuclear Non
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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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Does access to fuel ease nations toward nuclear weapons? Rising demand has nonproliferation experts unsettled.
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The UK government is accused of trying to reclassify two kinds of cluster bombs ahead of a proposed international ban.
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The world will have to wait until 2010 before the United States of America bans the use of anti-personnel landmines. This is the message the military superpower sent to the delegates attending the first review
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OSLO, Dec. 4 (IPS) - Following the breakdown of UN negotiations, Norway  is launching its own push to ban cluster bombs that kill and maim  almost only civilians. The country is hoping to repeat the  unprecedented success of the anti-landmine campaign in the 1990s.
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North Korea is well practiced in getting some of what it wants through provocation. Bullying through a bullhorn has worked time and again for a small nation with an outsized military force and an even bigger capacity for bluster and threat.
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MOSCOW  - Russia has the right to carry out pre-emptive strikes on militant bases abroad, Russia's defence minister said Sunday, citing the recent school hostage crisis. He said Moscow and the United States see eye-to-eye on fighting terrorism.
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US and Russia resort to name-calling over Ukraine. The UN's atomic energy agency warns that Pyongyang has enough weapons-grade plutonium for up to six a-bombs. The Pope gets his due in a graphic novel.
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Clearing unexploded cluster bombs used   by Israel in Lebanon during the month-long war, many of them   U.S.-manufactured, could take 10 years, a British-based   demining group said on Friday.
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As the IAEA meets, advocates of a nuclear-fuel bank argue that it would help safeguard against terrorism.
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BEIRUT -- Up to a million unexploded cluster bomblets from Israel's war with Hezbollah are now the biggest threat to civilians in south Lebanon, where they litter streets, homes, and orchards, UN agencies said yesterday.
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China assailed the United States on Monday for listing it as a country that violates religious freedoms. The State Department list released last week included China among Myanmar, North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan as places where people cannot practice their faiths freely.
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Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted by Russian missiles if they agree to host a proposed U.