Ban on cluster bombs pressed
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OSLO -- Forty-six countries agreed yesterday to push for a global treaty banning cluster bombs, a move activists hope would force the superpowers that oppose the effort -- the United States, China, and Russia -- to abandon the weapons.
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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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Israeli military prosecutors say the use of cluster bombs last year in Lebanon was legal under international law.
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A European proposal to block access to bomb-making instructions is unworkable, sites say.
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NAIROBI  - For the first time since it entered into force five years ago, the international treaty to ban antipersonnel landmines comes up for review here, but no official US delegates will be present among the hundreds of diplomats, campaigners and
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The International Atomic Energy's 35-nation board of governors passed a resolution calling for the country to suspend all uranium enrichment activities that could contribute to producing fuel for a nuclear bomb.
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Public religious meetings are banned in Pakistan after Thursday's bomb explosion in Multan kills at least 40 people.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi authorities announced sweeping security measures yesterday designed to prevent suicide bombings and other attacks during the national election scheduled for Jan. 30, including a three-day ban on car travel between major cities and wide cordons around thousands of polling places.
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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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Internet searches for bomb-making  instructions should be blocked across the European Union, the  bloc&#39;s top security official said on Monday.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday moved to block President George W. Bush from developing a new generation of atomic warheads, as Democratic and Republican opponents said the administration had not developed an adequate post-Cold War nuclear strategy.
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Iraqi authorities ordered a one-day vehicle ban in Baqouba on Friday in response to a series of deadly suicide bombings and other attacks by al-Qaida in Iraq against predominantly Sunni fighters that have allied with the United States.
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The 48th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) concluded Friday evening with a call for the prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass
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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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NAIROBI  - Some 144 countries party to an international treaty banning landmines appealed to those still outside the pact, which include the United States, China and Russia, to join it and hasten the total eradication of the deadly devices.
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A cluster bomb left over from Israel's war against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon wounded two members of an international team of land mine-clearing experts on Friday, Lebanese security officials said.
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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.