Hello, my name is Kanae Doi, Japan Director at Human Rights Watch. When the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines opened for signature on December 3, 1997—the international day for ...

In the southeastern Utah desert famous for red rock arches and canyon labyrinths, the long-dormant uranium mining industry is ...

The first recorded use of pressure-activated land mines was by the Confederate army in 1862 during the Civil War. Union soldiers thought they were barbarous, cowardly weapons — but by the 20th ...

European countries bordering Russia are taking steps to leave a key land mine treaty. Land mines have seen widespread and aggressive use in the Ukraine war. NGOs are concerned about the impact of ...

HELSINKI, April 4 (Reuters) - Finnish technology conglomerate Insta said on Friday it is interested in producing anti-personnel land mines in Finland once the Finnish government leaves the ...

His main responsibility would be to defuse land mines, but true to his nature, he joked about what possibly could go wrong. "I said, 'Oh, you don't really want me to do that, do you?'" he recalled ...

Discuss the accuracy of this statement with reference to either WW1 or WW2. You are expected to make effective ... Fritz are out laying many booby traps and mines. One type of booby trap is a mine ...

Taoiseach Micheal Martin was in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday for a meeting with President Donald Trump, but tariffs and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza set political “land mines” for Martin ...

An abandoned town in Namibia was once home to the world’s richest diamond mine and is now attracting ... networks of its time. However, World War 1 brought it all to an abrupt halt.

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After decades of civil war, over a million land mines remain in the ground in Sri Lanka. Women are on the front line of the demining effort. Fifteen years after Sri Lanka's brutal civil war ...

The Defense Department will provide Ukraine with antipersonnel land mines, underscoring how President Joe Biden’s administration is becoming increasingly willing to poke the Russian bear in its ...