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Hidden Bombs Hit Libyans
By Simba Russeau
CAIRO - The conflict in Libya between pro- and anti-Gaddafi forces will continue to take its toll on communities long after the war has ended as long as hidden bombs remain scattered across public areas.
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CAMBODIA
Cluster Bombs Cloud Prospects for Peace
By Irwin Loy
PHNOM PENH - Allegations that Thailand used controversial cluster munitions during recent border clashes with Cambodia have become the latest wedge driving tensions between the two neighbours.
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POLITICS
Cambodia, Vietnam Differ from Laos in Cluster Bombs Ban
By Irwin Loy
SEKONG, Laos - On a windy morning in southern Laos in November, a team of deminers built a makeshift bunker out of sandbags and piled the barrier around a tiny explosive.
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LAOS
For Cluster Bomb Survivors, War Far From Over
By Irwin Loy
VIENTIANE - Eighteen-year-old Phongsavath Manithong rubbed his eyes with the back of his arms as he described how his life changed forever.
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Cluster Munitions Treaty Leaves U.S. Behind
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - A campaign to rid the world of cluster munitions has still to rope in the U.S. government, a major producer and stockpiler of the deadly payload, on the eve of a key global conference in Laos to ban its production and use.
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Long-Awaited Cluster Bomb Ban Enters Into Force
By Esther Banales
UNITED NATIONS - Thirty-eight countries will start observing the Convention on Cluster Munitions this Sunday, Aug. 1, after a rapid entry into force since the treaty was announced two years ago in Oslo.
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UN’s Big Five Facilitate Arms Transfers to Rights Violators
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The five permanent members of the Security Council - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - are accused of facilitating the transport of conventional weapons and cluster munitions to countries where they could be used to commit human rights violations and war crimes.
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DISARMAMENT
France Urged to Ban Cluster Bomb Funding
By A. D. McKenzie
PARIS - Human rights groups are urging the French government to adopt a law that would ban the financing of companies that produce cluster munitions, the deadly bombs that have killed or maimed thousands of civilians in the past 40 years.
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Cluster Bomb Ban to Become Law – Without U.S.
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - Just over a year after it was opened for signature, an international treaty banning cluster bombs received the final two ratifications it needed to become international law Tuesday.
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MIDEAST
Gazans Brace for Cold, Bleak and Miserable Winter
By Mel Frykberg
EZBT ABBED RABBO - Tens of thousands of Gazans living in tents and damaged homes face a wet, cold and miserable winter as Israel’s blockade of the coastal territory continues to prevent the importation of building and reconstruction material.
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US-CUBA
NGOs Hail Congressional Moves to Ease Embargo
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - Leading advocates for lifting the nearly 50-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Cuba are hailing Congress's approval Tuesday of a general appropriations bill that eases - albeit in a mostly symbolic way - several restrictions on travel and sales to the Caribbean nation.
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DISARMAMENT
New Treaty Bans Weapons Victimising Civilians
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - When the United Nations talks of "Israeli-occupied territories", the conventional definition is that these disputed lands include the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights - all of them annexed after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
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Russia-Georgia Conflict Left Legacy of Displaced
By Nastassja Hoffet
UNITED NATIONS - As the European Union launches a probe into the conflict between Georgian and Russian troops in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia last August - with much of the blame now being cast on Georgia for firing the first shots - thousands of civilians remain displaced and homeless at the start of winter.
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