Unreported Europe Troubled waters: the hidden legacy of chemical weapons dumping Brothers Giovanni and Michele de Candia have been fishing off the Italian coast of Molfetta for decades. It is a livelihood that they claim has come 21/02/2014
USA US authorities recognise 3-D firearms pose a threat to public safety Following concerns that firearms made using 3-D printers could evade metal detectors with disastrous consequences, the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco 14/11/2013
My Europe Series EU fires first salvo for stricter gun control Gun crime is on the rise in Europe with the Schengen open border policy making it easier for criminals to move weapons across the continent. In 13/11/2013
Syria Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons could be destroyed by June 2014 Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons could be destroyed by mid-2014, it’s been claimed. Ahmet Uzumcu, chief of the world’s chemical weapons 09/10/2013
World Prohibition of Chemical Weapons chief talks to euronews Syria’s decision to start sending data to the international watchdog on chemical weapons comes just a few days after it joined the 23/09/2013
World Syrian chemical disarmament needs 'ceasefire to implement' The deadly chemical weapon attack on civilians in Syria three weeks ago tore the civil war across a red line that US President Barack Obama had 12/09/2013
World Iran backs plan to put Syria's chemical weapons under international control Iran says it’s behind Russia’s offer to work with Syria to put its chemical weapons under international control. Iran’s Foreign Ministry 10/09/2013
Ukraine Ukraine police claim gun and grenade seized in FEMEN's offices Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN have accused the police in Kiev of planting explosives and guns in the activists’ headquarters in an attempt to smear 27/08/2013
Canada Video emerges of first 3D printed rifle firing single shot A video has emerged on YouTube of what could be the first homemade all-plastic rifle to be constructed using a 3D printer. The video appears to 26/07/2013
My Europe Series Syria on chemical hair trigger “Has Syria overstepped the red line? Have chemical weapons been used against rebels? And does this require an armed intervention by the US?” asks 10/05/2013
World Newtown, USA mourns Three days after the mass killing in Newtown, Connecticut, the victims’ families and the townspeople are in anguish – shared across the country. At 17/12/2012
focus Cairo police alarm at growing illegal arms trade Cairo in the daytime is mostly only dangerous for its crazy traffic and choking pollution, even if a lack of law and order since last year’s 09/08/2012
