Full Coverage: Arms & military

28.07.2006 The UN has urged the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil rebels to resume peace talks so that the nearly 300,000 internally displaced people can return to their homes. UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said after a trip to Sri Lanka that conditions should be created all over the country that allow people to return home.

26.07.2006 Despite spending the last three months engaged in peace talks with the Nepalese government, Maoist rebels are still not prepared to demobilise, disarm or integrate, their leaders said in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.

23.07.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 22 (OneWorld) - Iraq's most revered Shi'ite cleric called for an end to sectarian violence Friday, just days after separate announcements declared that, on average, 100 Iraqi civilians died every day in May and June and more than a 1,000 fled their homes each day over the past five months.

14.07.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 13 (OneWorld) - A judge in Spain has issued arrest warrants for eight former Guatemalan officials, including a former president, Efrain Rios Montt for crimes committed during what is known by many as the Guatemalan Genocide.

13.07.2006 Les agents douaniers de la capitale ont procédé le mardi 11 juillet 2006, à une saisie d’une douzaine d’armes à feu de calibre 9 mm et d’environ 500 cartouches dans un container au bord de mer de Port-au-Prince, apprend l’agence en ligne AlterPresse.

12.07.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 12 (OneWorld) - Iraq will ask the United Nations to end immunity from local law for U.S. troops, the country's human rights minister said on Monday, as the military named five soldiers charged in a rape-murder case that has outraged Iraqis.

12.07.2006 It was not only Mumbai that was rocked by explosions on Tuesday, even the capital of the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar, was rocked by grenade explosions that killed six tourists. The grenades used in the attack were found to have Chinese markings.

12.07.2006 Over 190 people were killed when seven bombs exploded in local trains in Mumbai on Tuesday evening during the rush hour. The explosions were a flashback to Mumbaikars about the serial bomb blasts that had taken place in 1993, 2002 and 2003.

12.07.2006 Indian campaigners have voiced their disappointment over the stand taken by the Indian government to block an agreement that would have stopped small arms sales that break international humanitarian law. The proposal was discussed at the UN World Conference on Small Arms, which ended on July 7 in New York. The agreement, which was backed by over 100 countries was opposed by India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and Cuba.

11.07.2006 UNITED NATIONS, July 11 (OneWorld) - Following the collapse of diplomatic talks at a recent world conference on small arms, many governments and international civil society groups who want to see a global crackdown on the multibillion-dollar illegal business in guns are now looking to the United Nations General Assembly for help.

05.07.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 5 (IPS) - IPS contributor Alaa Hassan was killed on his way to work last Wednesday. He was 35 years old. He is survived by his mother, five brothers, five sisters and his wife who is pregnant with their first child.

03.07.2006 NEW YORK, July 2 (OneWorld) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the Bush administration's use of military tribunals has prompted fresh calls for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and other secret prisons run by the U.S. military.