Landmark cluster bomb treaty takes effect

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Landmark cluster bomb treaty takes effect
Geneva (AFP) Aug 1, 2010 - A landmark international treaty to ban cluster munitions took effect on Sunday, requiring signatories to stop the use, production and transfer of the deadly weapons. Pope Benedict XVI hailed the ban and joined calls for all countries to sign up to the deal that also obliges those that have ratified it to destroy their stockpiles of the bombs. China, Russia, the United States and Israel a ... more

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