Although Magawa weighed less than three pounds, his impact was monumental. The African giant pouched rat sniffed out more ...

If confirmed, US military use of mines which cause civilian deaths and injuries shows why decades of work to ban them cannot be undone without grave harm, says human rights expert - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The land mines were photographed in a village outside Shiraz, about three miles from one of several nearby Iranian ballistic missile sites.

At least 57 nations have live antipersonnel land mines in their territories. In 2024 alone, 1,945 people were killed by mines and 4,325 were injured, 90% of whom were civilians. Nearly half of those ...

The Trump administration reversed a Biden-era policy that prohibited the use of antipersonnel land mines except on the Korean Peninsula, according to a Dec. 2 document reviewed by The Washington Post.

When Jasper Baur was a freshman at New York's Binghamton University, his interests centered on earth sciences. Then he got ...

BANGKOK -- Three Thai soldiers on patrol were wounded Saturday when one stepped on a land mine in territory along the border with Cambodia, Thailand's army announced. The incident came just two days ...

Casualties from land mines and similar booby-trap explosives increased for the second consecutive year in 2016, to the highest level since a treaty banning such weapons of war took effect in 1999, a ...

HELSINKI — Finland’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to pull out of a major international treaty on antipersonnel land mines Thursday as the Nordic country seeks to boost its defenses against an ...

Saturday 4 April marked the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action with a senior United Nations ...

Prince Harry visited the African nation of Angola on Tuesday with a land mine clearing charity, repeating a famous trip his mother made in 1997.Harry, the Duke of Sussex, met with Angolan President ...