48 Nations Gather to Fight Cluster Bombs
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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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Military chiefs from the United States and nine African countries have met in Senegal to seek ways to strengthen the battle against terrorism.
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&quot;Let us start resisting now ... We can&#39;t wait or we will be eaten up, country by country,&quot; he said. &quot;People of knowledge and experience should organise their efforts and form a leadership for the resistance to combat the crusaders.
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Peace activists around the world staged   a day of action on Sunday to highlight the "forgotten war" in   Darfur where tens of thousands of people have been killed and   more than 2 million left homeless.
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At least 48 people have died in a series of attacks across the states of Nagaland and Assam in north-east India. Two bombs exploded in the main commercial centre of Dimapur town in Nagaland - one at a train station and another at a local market.
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DAKAR, Senegal  - Residents burned tires and  children took to the streets with sticks in Senegal's capital  on Wednesday to fight an invasion of locusts, as 12 West  African nations agreed on a battle plan.
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World leaders gather in Poland to mark 60 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
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OSLO, Norway, Feb 22 (IPS) - As Branislav Kapetanovic brushes aside some  grass  to get a better view, his arms and legs are  ripped off by a  cluster bomb dropped by NATO. His eardrums burst. On the  way to  hospital  his heart stops, but he survives to tell the tale.
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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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Manama, Dec. 19 (PTI): In the backdrop of militant threats, leaders of six Gulf countries are meeting here tomorrow where they are likely to discuss ways to deal firmly with terrorism besides deliberating on the situation in Iraq and West Asia.
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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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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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OSLO -- Representatives from 48 nations yesterday 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 military powers.
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Norway hosts a 40-nation meeting this week to bolster support for a ban on cluster bombs which campaigners blame for killing and maiming thousands of civilians, many of them children.
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More than 50 nations issued a   plea on Wednesday for 10 more countries to ratify a 10-year old   treaty banning nuclear tests, a step that would transform an   informal moratorium into a binding commitment.
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Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced Monday that &quot;more than 40 countries could make nuclear weapons,&quot; reports the Associated Press.
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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.