arms trafficking
Montenegrin confesses smuggling arms to Paris on eve of November attacks
A Montenegrin caught in Germany with a car full of weapons a week before November’s Islamist attacks in Paris confessed at the start of his trial on Friday to acting as a gun…
Europe struggles to crack down on weapons trafficking
After a series of terrorist attacks in Europe, people are urging their governments to find ways to protect them. One of the major concerns is the number of illegal weapons…
Spain arrests man suspected of arming Paris gunman
Spanish police have arrested a French man suspected of supplying the arms used by an Islamist militant to kill four people at a kosher supermarket and a policewoman in Paris in…
Paris attacks guns 'traced to German arms dealer'
German prosecutors said Friday they were investigating whether an illegal arms dealer had sold four assault rifles to a person in the French capital and whether there were…
Saudi King Abdullah dies: Succession, stability and youth in question (part 1)
In The World This Week: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia dies after nearly two decades in power, hope of a longstanding ceasefire fades in the east of Ukraine, the French Republic's…
France arrests dozens in arms trafficking crackdown
Authorities have arrested 45 people across France and in French overseas territories as part of an operation targeting international arms traffickers, police said Monday.
Argentina's ex-president jailed for arms smuggling
Argentina’s former president Carlos Menem was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday after he was convicted of smuggling arms to Ecuador and Croatia during the 1990s,…
Jean-Hugues Simon-Michel, French Ambassador to the UN Conference on Disarmament
Melissa Bell speaks to Jean-Hugues Simon-Michel, French Ambassador to the UN Conference on Disarmament, about the UN General Assembly's adoption of the treaty on the…
Israel hints that it was behind Syria air strike
Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak strongly implied on Sunday that his country was behind an air strike on Syria last week, saying the attack was "proof when we say something…
Rebels advance as regional leaders meet over crisis
Congo's M23 rebels, widely thought to be backed by neighbouring Rwanda, advanced into eastern Congo Saturday as regional leaders met in Kampala and urged the rebels to stop…
Congo suspends army chief for arming rebel groups
Congolese President Joseph Kabila suspended the army’s chief of staff on Friday following a UN report accusing Gen. Gabriel Amisi of overseeing the selling of arms to rebel…
