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Sri Lanka may miss 2028 deadline to clear landmines laid by LTTE as Trump suspends aid
Sri Lanka may miss its 2028 deadline to clear landmines planted by the LTTE, as the Trump administration’s aid suspension ...
What is the International Criminal Court and how can a member country like Hungary leave?
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has announced his intention to withdraw his country from the International Criminal ...
New Zealand lawmakers reject proposed law to redefine the country’s founding Treaty of Waitangi
New Zealand lawmakers have dealt an overwhelming defeat to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s ...
Current major party policies fall short for Indigenous communities. Here’s a better path forward
Since the Voice, policies to improve the lives of First Nations people haven’t gotten much traction. What are the major parties promising this election?
Defense chiefs from around 30 countries expected at NATO for talks on a future Ukraine force
Britain and France are convening a meeting of defense ministers from around 30 countries on Thursday to press ahead with ...
As Canada is threatened, it’s urgent to revisit Indigenous sovereignty and nationhood
Indigenous nationhood has not just been a part of Indigenous ways of life for centuries, but is now closely tied to ...
New Zealand politicians sing as bill that sparked massive protests is ‘annihilated’
New Zealand politicians broke out in song Thursday after striking down a right wing-backed proposal that opponents feared ...
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Why are Finland and other nations leaving the land mine treaty?
Finland and other European countries are leaving the Ottawa Convention, the treaty banning anti-personnel mines, as the risk of confrontation with Russia continues to rise. The 1997 pact has "come ...
North Korea says its status as a nuclear weapons state can never be reversed, KCNA says
North Korea's status as a nuclear weapons state can never be reversed, no matter how much the United States and its Asian ...
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Growing calls for UK to withdraw from treaty banning landmines
Calls are growing for the UK to withdraw from the treaty banning the use of landmines. Nations in eastern Europe, including Poland and Finland, have signalled they will leave the 1997 Ottawa ...
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Trump Imposes 10% Baseline Tariff Rate on All Imports, and Higher Rates for Some Nations
when the U.S. and other nations in 1947 signed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, a treaty aimed at lowering tariffs and trade barriers between nations. Trump and his team have said that ...