1.07 arms trade

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The failure to achieve justice and accountability for many recent and past crimes has fostered a climate of impunity in Timor-Leste.

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The checks on US military aid are gone, and now the floodgates have opened.

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Activists staged a die-in to dramatize the bloody results of Blackwater's profits.

Summary:Chávez says he plans to emulate repressive regimes around the world.

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Musharraf has destroyed the constitution, the judiciary, and his own credibility. Time for him to go.

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"I'm often asked whether there aren't big differences between the Iraq War and Vietnam. And I'm always quick to say, of course, there are differences. In Iraq, it's a dry heat. And the language that none of our troops or diplomats speak is Arabic rather than Vietnamese." -Daniel Ellsberg

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Western Sahara is a sparsely populated territory about the size of Colorado, located on the Atlantic coast in northwestern Africa just south of Morocco. Traditionally inhabited by nomadic Arab tribes, collectively known as Sahrawis and famous for their long history of resistance to outside domination, the territory was occupied by Spain from the late 1800s through the mid-1970s, well over a decade after most African countries had achieved their freedom from European colonialism.

The nationalist Polisario Front launched an armed independence struggle against Spain in 1973, and Madrid eventually promised the people of what was then still known as the Spanish Sahara a referendum on the fate of the territory by the end of 1975.

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Archbishop Odama of Gulu has offered himself to the International Criminal Court in place of the indicted Lords Resistance Army leaders -- if they agree to end the war.

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Israeli cluster bombs were made in the US; Hezbollah's were from Iran. First step? Ban the transfer of cluster munitions.

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What should have been an opportunity to negotiate agreements became instead a performance by gun owner lobby groups.