The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons: ‘We have received some documentation and there is more to come.’ Photograph: Evert-Jan Daniels/EPA
Syria submits weapons inventory
‘Initial disclosure’ received by watchdog in The Hague is now being studied by weapons experts
Syrian government says war has reached stalemate
Audio: Syrian deputy PM suggests ‘ceasefire’ 
Martin Chulov: Syria’s war more complex than ever
The bomb that nearly exploded over North Carolina was 260 times more powerful than the device which devasted Hiroshima in 1945. Photo: Three Lions/Getty Images
How the US narrowly averted atomic disaster
Exclusive: Air force nearly detonated bomb over North Carolina in 1961, but one switch averted disaster
Goldsboro revisited – declassified document
Eric Schlosser on the world of ‘nuclear madness’
General Keith Alexander is the director of the National Security Agency. Photograph: Doug Kapustin/Reuters
NSA chiefs defend agency’s conduct
General Keith Alexander and deputy pen letter to families ‘in light of unauthorised disclosure of classified information’
Merkel accused of negligence on NSA
The Arctic could be ice-free in summer within decades, scientists have said. Photograph: Jenny E Ross/Corbis
Arctic ice in significant retreat
National Snow and Ice Data Center says expanse of ice in Arctic on 13 September was sixth-lowest of all time
Big business ‘funds bid to discredit climate science’
Republicans block science laureate vote
EPA outlines steps to limit coal plant pollution
UN makes high-risk attempt to break deadlock on talks
An Afghan police officer searches people at a checkpoint in Helmand. Photograph: Watan Yar/EPA
Afghan insurgents want peace deal, says ex-Taliban minister
Agha Jan Motasim says hardliners distort leader’s views and drone threat ‘is silencing message of moderation’
At the heart of both climate change and development agendas is fairness. Photograph: Aaron Favila/AP
Global efforts to tackle poverty and climate change must come together
Traditional development issues, such as agriculture and energy, are among the most effective ways to reduce emissions
When the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, takes the floor of the UN general assembly next week, he will address two of the most pressing challenges of our time: poverty and climate change.
The debates on these issues are on track to coincide in 2015, a moment that will likely shape international action on climate and development for the next generation. In September 2015, UN negotiators will work towards an agreement on what will come after the millennium development goals (MDGs) expire that year. In Paris, just two months later, negotiators will convene to establish a global climate agreement. The combination of the sustainable development agenda and the international climate agreement will be a defining moment for the UN system – and for the world.
Opinion
‘I was stop-and-frisked by the NYPD more than 100 times’ – video
Daniel A Medina followed the story of Keeshan, a young black man whose teenage years, like so many others’, were scarred by the controversial police tactic that a court has ruled a violation of minorities’ rights
The American flag at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Aug. 7, 2013.Chantal Valery/AFP/Getty Images
Faulty computers put 9/11 Guantanamo case on hold
Military hearing recessed with no ruling on ‘Starbucks solution’
The judge in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal recessed a weeklong hearing in the Sept. 11 conspiracy case on Friday evening without ruling on a defense request to halt future hearings until Pentagon computer problems are fixed.
The judge, Army Colonel James Pohl, said he would issue a decision “in due course.” The next pretrial hearing in the death penalty case against five suspected al Qaeda conspirators is scheduled to start on Oct. 22 at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.
The chief defense counsel for the war crimes tribunal testified this week that using the Wi-Fi connection at Starbucks was a better bet than risking putting confidential defense documents on a glitch-prone Pentagon computer network.
Defense lawyers said their work files had been lost or altered, their emails had been disrupted and that outside monitors had access to documents the lawyers are ethically bound to keep confidential………………
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