States to seek cluster bomb ban
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Forty-six nations agree to work towards a treaty banning cluster bombs, but lack the backing of several key states.
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[India News]: Jammu, Nov 16 : Jammu and Kashmir goverment would voice for the scrapping of the memorandum of understanding banning creation of new jobs in government sector during the forthcoming visit of the Prime Minister, state Health minister Suman
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Calling for a new line of attack in Saudi Arabia
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The Air Force will recommend the firing and disciplining of several service members involved in the mistaken flight of nuclear warheads across the country in August, according to a military official familiar with the investigation.
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The nation's governors sought help Thursday from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in their ongoing fight against proposals in Congress to give President Bush more control &#151; and governors less &#151; over the National Guard during disasters.
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From parks to bars to the workplace, more states are proposing far-reaching bans that would limit public smoking.
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Twenty-three US groups launched an effort Tuesday to stop a US deal aimed at providing India with civilian nuclear fuel and technology, saying it would instead beef up New Delhi's atomic weapons capability.
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Southern states join in the marijuana battle to protect states' rights
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U.S. officials said Tuesday they are willing to negotiate a treaty on the use of cluster bombs, reversing their position that no new agreement on the weapon was necessary.
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Administration officials are preparing long-range plans for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists whom they do not want to set free or turn over to courts in the United States or other countries.
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U.S. officials said Monday they are willing to negotiate a treaty on the use of cluster bombs, reversing their position that no new agreement on the weapon was necessary.
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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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Officials from 120 nations meet in New Zealand to try to agree a text for a proposed ban on cluster bombs.
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By Tucker, Jonathan B  The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which bans the development, production, stockpiling, transfer, and use of chemical arms, is the first treaty to prohibit an entire category of "weapons of mass destruction" under strict international verification.
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Thousands of unexploded U.S.-made cluster bomblets scattered across the hills and valleys continue to take lives
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The socialist leaders of six central European nations signed a declaration on Friday, Sept. 14, condemning US plans to base its missile defense shield on European soil. In what will be a massive blow to the United States' plans to base its missile defense shield in Central Europe, left-wing leaders from the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia plus Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer and Germany's Social Democratic Party chief Kurt Beck condemned the plan
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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