OSLO (Reuters) - More than 90 nations signed a treaty on Wednesday to ban cluster bombs that have killed and maimed thousands of people, though powerful arms producers including the United States, Russia and China, remain outside the pact.
Despite those and other military powers not signing, 18 of 26 NATO members, including Britain, France, Germany, signed the convention which many hailed as a humanitarian achievement.
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