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Paul Vieira covers Canada for The Wall Street Journal, and is based in Ottawa.
More than 124 countries, including Britain, have forsworn the production, transfer, stockpiling or use of cluster munitions.
T HIS SPRING, the Lithuanian hamlet of Lavoriskes is tranquil. No traffic disturbs the country road that leads from the ...
Funding cuts threaten support for victims, while several countries are withdrawing from a treaty that bans the use of indiscriminate weapons such as mines. John Zarocostas reports.
Since their widespread deployment in modern warfare, landmines have claimed close to one million lives globally. And the human cost extends far beyond this eye-popping number when you also consider ...
The government, along with two other Baltic nations and Poland, agreed last month to quit the 1997 accord that prohibits from ...
The Latvian parliament voted to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, citing ...
The Latvian parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention international treaty that bans ...
Israel, along with several major powers, is not a signatory to the 1997 Ottawa Treaty banning the use of anti-personnel mines, but in 2011, it formed a governmental Mine Clearance Authority to ...
Canada emerged from Trump's Liberation-Day trade-policy unveil with no new tariffs other than what the White House previously announced, notably the 25% tariff on vehicles; 25% duty on steel and ...