Iraq: Mismanagement leads to gun flood
A new report from Amnesty International describes 'very serious failures' in the process which has flooded Iraq with weapons since the US-led invasion in 2003, allowing guns to be diverted to insurgents despite grave abuses of human rights by all parties in the conflict.
A large stockpile of surplus ammunition burned uncontrollably after fire-fighters failed to extinguish a forest fire in the Kharkiv region of the Ukraine on 27 August.
