Liberia faces disarmament deadline
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Armed UN troops backed by armoured personnel carriers enforced a nationwide disarmament deadline in Liberia on Sunday, days after a fresh burst of violence showed illicit weapons still at large in the war-battered West African
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is withdrawing its forces from the region to meet an African Union ceasefire deadline, an AU spokesman says. village of Labado on Saturday, Assane Ba said on Sunday.
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The top United Nations envoy to Sudan postponed talks Wednesday with rebel officials in southern Sudan until he can meet with their leader to negotiate the deployment of up to 10,000 peacekeepers to monitor an accord aimed at ending Africa's longest-running conflict.
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The defense attorney for former Liberian President Charles Taylor said Wednesday he needs more time to prepare before the war crimes trial resumes.
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The UN nuclear watchdog is worried the US-led war aimed at disarming Iraq may have unleashed a proliferation crisis if looters have sold equipment that can be used to make atomic weapons, Western diplomats said.
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MONROVIA  - UN peacekeepers arrested a dissident rebel leader and seized weapons in a clampdown on the Liberian capital on the last day of a campaign to disarm fighters in the west African state.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor's war crimes trial could begin as early as April 2, according to a tentative date set by the Special Court for Sierra Leone on Friday.
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Eight days before a UN Security Council deadline for Khartoum to rein in state-sponsored Arab militias in Darfur, Interior Minister Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hussein said in comments that they would be disarmed only gradually.
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A deadline is raising tensions and upping the stakes in a UN-Khartoum showdown.
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It may take up to two years to disarm the Arab militia in the Darfur region of western Sudan and secure the vast region for the return of 1.2 million people who fled the violence there, a senior U.S. diplomat said Friday.
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Prosecution and defense lawyers asked for another delay in the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor on Thursday, saying the defense will not have enough time to prepare for the first witness, who is due to testify July 3.
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Days before a UN deadline for Sudan to disarm and prosecute those responsible for violence in the country&#39;s Darfur region, nations are looking to the African Union
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Diplomats acknowledged Wednesday that any U.N. Security Council resolution to stop fighting in Lebanon could take until next week, as the United States and France struggled to bridge wide differences on what to do first: send in peacekeepers to disarm Hezbollah or impose a cease-fire.
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No date given for resumption of six-party disarmament process.
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A deadline set by militants who have  threatened to kill two Americans and a Briton seized in Iraq  was due to expire Monday, and more than two dozen other  hostages were also facing death unless rebel demands were met.
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The war crimes tribunal trying former Liberian President Charles Taylor for allegedly orchestrating atrocities in West Africa's upheavals needs more money to complete its cases, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
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Public hearings on Liberia's lengthy conflict are to start at its Truth and Reconciliation Commission.