Cluster bombs: a war's perilous aftermath
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UN figures estimate that 26 percent of south Lebanon's cultivatable land is affected by the ordinance.
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Today, the Lancet medical journal published a report which concludes that 100,000 civilians died in the US-led invasion of Iraq. This is an incredibly high estimate, and at first may seem too farfetched not to be propaganda. But it cannot easily be dismissed. The report's authors are researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. The Lancet is a highly-respected, peer-reviewed publication. The report appears to be a serious academic attempt to study the public health consequences of the invasion.  Also, The New Republic magazine has conducted an interview with Prof. Gilbert Burnham, the report's main author.   Excerpts and comments below.
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The United States will create a team of experts to defuse cluster bombs and other explosives that pose a threat to civilians after the end of a conflict, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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Israel dropped at least 350,000 cluster   bomblets on south Lebanon in its war with Hizbollah guerrillas,   mostly when the conflict was all but over, leaving a deadly   legacy for civilians, a U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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A Cold War center for hydrogen bomb development repositions itself to lead hydrogen production for auto fuel and other energy uses. South Carolina officials want to dominate the field and reap the economic benefits.
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It was 1996 in Iraq, and Saddam Hussein was in power. U.N. inspectors were searching for weapons of mass destruction, and U.N. sanctions were on. U.S. jets screamed overhead in no-fly zones. Rival Kurdish factions battled openly. And the Babani family regularly stacked giant bags of powdered milk...
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With Maoist attacks on the rise in Nepal, authorities apprehend large-scale displacement of people. In fact, a good indicator of this âflight of passageâ is a newspaper report on Iraq-bound Nepalese that
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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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Representatives from 48 nations on Thursday launched a global effort to ban the use, production and stockpiling of cluster bombs by the end of next year, despite the opposition of several of the world's major ...Comment
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Israel likely misused American-made cluster bombs in civilian areas of Lebanon during the war against Hezbollah last summer, the State Department said
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BRUSSELS, Oct 29 (IPS) - The U.S. is leading efforts to resist a complete  ban on cluster bombs, human rights activists have complained.
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The signs say "KEEP OUT" and warn of radiation contamination, but the mushroom-pickers trudge right past them carrying their pails. Eighteen years after the reactor at Chernobyl in neighboring Ukraine exploded, spewing a cloud of radiation that blew north and contaminated 22 percent of this ex-Soviet republic, activists warn of a new threat facing Belarusians: the longing to return to normal life.
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OSLO, Norway, Feb 23 (IPS) - A process to ban cluster bombs by 2008  received a  solid boost Friday in a remarkable u-turn by countries such as   Germany and Britain.
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For more than 20 years, it&#39;s been one of the world&#39;s forgotten wars. Some 2 million people have died, yet it&#39;s received relatively scant global attention.
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Air raids, roadside blasts, suicide bombings, land and sea battles and thousands killed. So much for the 2002 ceasefire between Sri Lanka's army and the Tamil Tigers.
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Fighting fires and facing incoming spittle, stabbings and Molotov cocktails: Is it all part of the job?.
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A look at some insurgent-linked material recovered by the U.S. military in Iraq: