Human-rights groups say the use of tear gas as a weapon marks a new chilling trend among Turkey's notoriously nasty riot police.Hasan Kilicgedik, a thirty-year-old Kurd, was among the tens of thousands of people who took to the streets in protest of the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his increasingly authoritarian ways.
UN security council resolution 2118, which will underpin the process of ridding Syria of its chemical weapons, marks a watershed in the conflict.
Thanks to the presence of a mysterious extraterrestrial monolith, Kubrick's great apes learn to make use of tools and weapons, marking the beginning of a technological evolution that continues today and is celebrated by our annual Crunchies Awards.
The successful miniaturization of a nuclear weapon would mark a major advancement for North Korea's nuclear program.
The successful miniaturization of a nuclear weapon would mark a major milestone for North Korea's notorious nuclear program, further escalating international tensions over the country's pursuit of nuclear-capable ICMBs and raising concerns that the secretive state is already able to reach the mainland United States with such a device.
But the reinforcements, and particularly their heavy weapons, may mark a definitive shift in the battle.
The weapon is marked as being in the "developmental" stage.
A million chemical weapon munitions marked for storage or disposal were shipped to Redstone, where the U.S. had produced blister agents and other chemical weapons during the war.
Prof Ronald Arkin and Prof Noel Sharkey will debate the need for so-called killer robots during the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), marking the first time the issue of killer robots has been discussed within the CCW.
Reid's dumping of Feinstein's assault weapons ban marks the first stage in the epic political struggle over guns prompted by the Newtown school tragedy in December, in which 20 children and six teachers were killed.
