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U.N. Adopts Treaty to Regulate Global Arms Trade
(UNITED NATIONS) — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first U.N. treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar international arms trade Tuesday, a...
U.N. to Vote Tuesday on Treaty Regulating Arms Trade
(UNITED NATIONS) — The U.N. General Assembly is expected to vote Tuesday on what would be the first U.N. treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar international...
Iran, North Korea, Syria Block U.N. Arms Trade Treaty
(UNITED NATIONS) — Iran, North Korea and Syria blocked adoption of a U.N. treaty that for the first time would regulate the multibillion-dollar international...
Optimism in U.N. Over 1st Global Arms Trade Treaty
(UNITED NATIONS) — The first global treaty on regulating the multimillion-dollar arms trade appeared to be nearing consensus, supporters said, though worries...
The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
On 11 November, my friend Andrew Feinstein authored an op-ed in the New York Times entitled Arms and the Corrupt Man. Andrew gave the reader a tantalizing...
Arms Trade: Window-Shopping for Weapons
The visit to Washington last week of Chinese Defense Minister Zhang Aiping was attended by a minimum of fanfare. His mission: to work out a deal with Defense...
U.N. Arms-Trade Treaty
'We owe it to those millions--often the most vulnerable in society--whose lives have been overshadowed by the irresponsible and illicit international trade in...
Morning Must Reads: April 15
In the news: Guantanamo Bay prisoners, UN arms treaty, the family and the labor market, legal immigration, raisin regulation, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, Kim Il Sung,...
Must-Reads from Around the World
The U.N. signs the first treaty to regulate the global arms trade, Malaysia will have a general election later this month, and the world’s poorest countries said...
Officials: Arms Shipments Rise to Syrian Rebels
(AMMAN, Jordan) — Mideast powers opposed to President Bashar Assad have dramatically stepped up weapons supplies to Syrian rebels in coordination with the U.S...
