BEN Wallace has urged Britain to withdraw from a global landmines ban championed by Princess Diana. The former Tory defence secretary claimed the weapons were vital to fend off Russia. Britain ...

Britain signed up to voluntary bans on landmines, in 1997, and cluster bombs in 2008, as they kill and maim civilians decades after conflicts end. Landmines are placed on or in the ground and are ...

The UK should withdraw from treaties banning the use of landmines because they may be needed in a conflict against Russia, former Conservative Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said. The UK and ...

In a joint statement released Tuesday, the defence ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia recommended withdrawing from the landmine ban, citing the rising threat from Russia and its ...

There are few better symbols of Europe’s military fecklessness during the brief era of relative peace that followed the end of the Cold War than the 1997 Ottawa Treaty, which banned the use of ...

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