On September, 22nd the Russian Duma approved an amnesty provision for Chechen rebels willing to lay down their arms in the next six months. The law makes permanent a temporary provision in place since July 15th. Since that date, the Kremlin claims that approximately 200 rebels have handed over their weapons to local Chechen authorities. But none of those surrendering is an actual combatant. Thus far only ex-combatants and their supporters have accepted the offer - men who haven’t carried a rifle in years, if ever. All the while guerillas continue to fight as fiercely as ever
Launched in Strasbourg a Campaign for an exchange of prisoners: a step to peace
New revelations about toxic dumping in Abidjan's port: two French citizens arrested
Anger against PM Gyurcsany turns violent
The US announced that the number of dead in Iraq fell by 50% in August. But the figure represents just a change in the method adopted for counting the victims
A renowned cartoonist travels in the war-torn country. The Panjshir valley, surrounded by the natural ramparts of the high, bare rocky mountains, holds the bright deep green that the river has given it for thousands of years. The useless carcasses of Soviet tanks rust away, taking on the color of the rocks, like extinct dinosaur skeletons. But that long-ago war and the more recent one that came after have left other gifts that do not rust in the air and remain as efficient as ever: the mines.
A foundation reunites people who should hate each other, and makes them work together. It is called Breaking the Ice and it is an initiative which involves individuals who have personally experienced the traumas and horrors of war. A travel from Jerusalem to Tripoli, in Libya, sharing their fatigue to understand each others’ problems. This is the story of their journey, told through their diary
The fear that alleged terrorists subjected to torture or abuse may retaliate against them in a U.S. court of law has prompted many CIA agents to take out private liability insurance policies to protect themselves from the charges
97 per cent of the people vote 'Yes' in the referendum called to split officially from Moldova, after the de facto separation in 1992
The Afghan civilians who have been evacuated into the southern regions of Kandahar and Helmand are now about 85,000
Veterans used as guinea pigs in the military laboratory of Porton Down sue the government
09/22/2006 Europe calling Colombia
09/21/2006 Spreading protest
09/20/2006 Usa, Impunity is expensive
09/19/2006 Transnistria wants to unite with Russia
09/18/2006 Escape from the Afghan war
09/15/2006 Iraq, Reduction in Deaths
09/12/2006 Great Britain, Lethal experiments
09/11/2006 Five years later
09/07/2006 Ivory Coast, Death Comes from the Sea
09/06/2006 Colombia's Sin City
09/05/2006 Lebanon, the life under the debris
09/04/2006 Brothers in arms
09/01/2006 Uganda, An Unexpected Truce
08/30/2006 Iraq in fragments
08/29/2006 Afghanistan, the Slaughter of Civilians
08/28/2006 Soldier and citizen
08/25/2006 Soldier and citizen
08/24/2006 Two for the Price of One
08/23/2006 The perverse fascination of war
08/22/2006 Mare Nostrum
08/21/2006 Balance sheet of war
08/18/2006 No to Homegrown Guantanamo
08/17/2006 The Magna Carta of Bolivian Dreams
08/16/2006 Volunteer refugees
08/11/2006 Russia: weapons to Iran and Hezbollah
08/10/2006 Journey to Bint Jbeil
08/09/2006 Afghanistan, ISAF officially at War
08/08/2006 Soccer against the war
08/07/2006 'IDF may be morally justified in killing civilians'
08/04/2006 'IDF may be morally justified in flattening terror strongholds'
08/01/2006 Thank you, West
07/28/2006 Islands without borders
07/27/2006 Like Galileo
07/26/2006 Trumpets of war
07/25/2006 Victims of Stan
07/24/2006 Help the refugees
07/21/2006 The Inner Front is United
07/19/2006 Houdini, get me out of here
07/18/2006 A Nepal not of the people
07/17/2006 India, a complicated slaugher
07/14/2006 Islamic autonomy in Aceh
07/13/2006 More martyrs
07/12/2006 The Bitter Glory of the Burned Man of El Aaiun
07/11/2006 Gaza, just a Pretext
07/10/2006 Armed Childhood
07/07/2006 Darfur, the war rages again
07/06/2006 Saudi Arabia, the Torn Veil
07/05/2006 The Salafites are not giving up
07/03/2006 Just shut up
06/28/2006 Saudi Arabia, joy for the returnees
06/26/2006 Kicks from the other world
06/23/2006 Domino Effect
06/21/2006 The denied syndrome
06/20/2006 The Gentle Giant
06/19/2006 The arsenal of the Horn of Africa
06/16/2006 Brazil, countdown for omophobia
06/15/2006 The Flag of War
06/14/2006 Canada, the Conclave of the Mighty
06/13/2006 Iraq: No Name, Killed with No Reason
06/12/2006 Beauty Won’t Save Chechnya
06/09/2006 Final with low accusations
06/08/2006 Up Against the Ghosts of a Dictatorship
06/07/2006 Up Against the Ghosts of a Dictatorship
06/06/2006 The Black Market in Black Gold
06/05/2006 Stories from Kabul
06/01/2006 Dams of disagreement
05/30/2006 Kabul in Flames
05/29/2006 In Beslan, Injustice
05/26/2006 Overtaking
05/25/2006 Afghanistan, The Goose With the Golden Eggs
05/24/2006 Affaire Habré: Last Act?
05/23/2006 The Damned of Soy
05/22/2006 Taliban at Yale
05/19/2006 A deadly journey across the gulf