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Britain to obstruct global ban on cluster bombs use in Dublin conference
Sep 9 2008, Arpita Mukherjee

When the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, promised last year to work internationally for a ban on weapons that cause unacceptable harms to civilians in wars, the world thought that finally the innocent civilians would be saved from the ravages of..

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