46 of 49 nations OK ban on cluster bombs
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A declaration calling for a 2008 treaty banning cluster bombs was adopted Friday by 46 out of 49 nations attending a conference in Oslo, officials for the Norwegian government and two non-governmental groups said.
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Silhouettes, representing the 2,982 children confirmed killed by by cluster bombs, crowd a snowy square outside the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday.Comment
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Liechtenstein has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, bringing to 116 the number of nations that have endorsed the pact, the Vienna-based treaty organization said Wednesday.
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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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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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'Million bomblets' in S LebanonUp to a million cluster bomblets discharged by Israel in its conflict with Hezbollah remain unexploded in southern Lebanon, the UN has said.    The UN's mine disposal agency says about 40% of the cluster bombs fired or dropped by Israel failed to detonate - three times the UN's previous estimate.    It says the problem could delay the return home of about 200,000 displaced people by up to two years.    The devices have killed 14 people in south Lebanon since the August truce.    The manager of the UN's mine removal centre in south Lebanon, Chris Clark, said Israel had failed to provide useful information of its cluster bomb strikes, which could help with the clearance operation.
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The tiny Alpine republic of Liechtenstein has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, bringing to 116 the number of nations endorsing the pact, the treaty organization said Wednesday.
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A U.S.-initiated project that aims to reduce the dangers of nuclear proliferation and control radioactive waste gained support Sunday, as 11 more nations signed on with original members Russia, China, France and Japan.
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An estimated 12,000 people were killed in half a dozen countries across South and Southeast Asia, with thousands more missing or unreachable.
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A wave of bombings and shootings killed 46 people Saturday in two states in India&#39;s remote and turbulent northeast, authorities said, underscoring the continued threat
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DONG HA, Vietnam  - In the same week that dozens of countries declared plans to ban cluster munitions, a boy was killed by the explosion of a steel ball he picked up and threw while tending livestock.
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The United States supports launching negotiations on a global treaty to reduce civilian casualties from cluster bombs, but does not back a ban on the weapons, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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UNITED NATIONS, March 9 -- U.S., British, French and German diplomats agreed in a closed-door meeting Friday to drop a proposal to impose a mandatory travel ban on Iranian officials linked to the country's most sensitive nuclear activities, Security Council diplomats said.
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Israeli military prosecutors have concluded that the country's use of cluster bombs during last year's war in Lebanon was legal under international law, military officials said Monday.
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More than 40 countries with peaceful nuclear programs could retool them to make weapons, the head of the UN atomic watchdog agency said Monday amid new US and European
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Nearly 60 countries signed a treaty on Tuesday that bans governments from holding people in secret detention, but the United States and some of its key European allies were not among them.