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Lasers Are Making It Easier to Find Buried Land Mines

Wired

scientists in the US have developed a technology that can detect land mines from far away and with high accuracy, potentially lowering the risk of removing mines from current and former conflict zones. There are currently more than 110 million land mines buried across the world, and in 2023, mines killed or injured 5,700 people, with civilians making up 84 …

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4 weeks ago

The UN chief and pope call for nations to end the use of antipersonnel land mines

Associated Press

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The U.N. head, Pope Francis and others called Monday for nations to end the production and use of land mines, even as their deployment globally grows. It is within reach.” In a statement read on behalf of Pope Francis, his deputy Cardinal Pietro Parolin said that antipersonnel land mines and victim-activated explosive devices continue to be …

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US to give antipersonnel mines to Ukraine

Deccan Chronicle

Kyiv: The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will give Ukraine antipersonnel mines to help it slow Russia’s battlefield advances, marking the second major shift on U.S. military support for Kyiv in days. After allowing Ukraine to use longer-range American missiles to launch strikes deeper into Russia, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the shift in Washington’s policy on antipersonnel …

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1 month ago

The US is sending antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine. Here’s what it means

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The U.S. decision to provide Ukraine with antipersonnel land mines expands the use of a weapon that the international community has long condemned because of its danger to innocent civilians. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the new policy will give Ukraine “nonpersistent antipersonnel land mines” that are safer because they lose the ability to detonate over time. The …

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1 month ago

US to give antipersonnel mines to Ukraine

Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will give Ukraine antipersonnel mines to help it slow Russia’s battlefield advances, marking the second major shift on U.S. military support for Kyiv in days. After allowing Ukraine to use longer-range American missiles to launch strikes deeper into Russia, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the shift in Washington’s policy …

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Ukraine to get US land mines for use against Russian forces: Reports

Al Jazeera

US President Biden’s decision to provide antipersonnel mines comes after Ukraine fired ATACMS missiles into Russia. US President Joe Biden has approved providing antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine in what has been seen as another policy reversal on weapons provided to Kyiv by the outgoing United States administration, according to reports. Ukraine has received US-made antitank mines throughout the war …

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1 month ago

U.S. will allow Ukraine to use American antipersonnel land mines against Russian forces

LA Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said the change in Washington’s policy on antipersonnel land mines for Ukraine follows changing tactics by the Russians. The Biden administration will allow Ukraine to use American-supplied antipersonnel land mines to help it slow Russia’s battlefield progress in the war, the U.S. Defense secretary said Wednesday, in Washington’s second major policy shift in …

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8 months ago

Five people killed by unexploded land mines in Cambodia

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Two separate explosions from ordnance …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Soldiers and civilians are dying as Mexican cartels embrace a terrifying new weapon: Land mines

LA Times

In one moment, a column of soldiers and military pickups creeps along a dirt road in western Mexico. “You live in fear every day — of land mines, of drones, of assassins,” said a rancher from the outskirts of El Aguaje, a contested town on the front lines of a war between the Jalisco cartel — known by its Spanish …

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1 year, 3 months ago

AP orders stones for third phase of comprehensive land survey

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: Mines minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy has announced that orders have been placed for 25.42 lakh survey stones to be used for Jagananna Bhu Hakku Bhu Suraksha comprehensive land rights programme being implemented in Andhra Pradesh. During the first phase, state government had supplied 25.80 lakh survey stones for marking the boundaries. Ramachandra Reddy pointed out that placing the orders …

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1 year, 6 months ago

South Sudan struggles to clear mines after decades of war as people start returning home

Associated Press

MAGWI COUNTY, South Sudan — For the first time since fleeing South Sudan’s civil war eight years ago, Jacob Wani returned home excited to rebuild his life. If I go, maybe something can hurt me.” As South Sudanese trickle back into the country after a peace deal was signed in 2018 to end a five-year civil war that killed nearly …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Azerbaijan to UN court: Armenia must stop laying land mines

Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Azerbaijan appealed Tuesday to the United Nations’ highest court to urgently order Armenia to stop the laying of land mines and booby traps on Azerbaijani territory and disclose the location of those already planted, in the latest legal battle focused on the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region. He called Azerbaijan’s land mine claims “yet another transparent attempt to …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Azerbaijan to UN court: Armenia must stop sowing land mines

Firstpost

Netherlands: Azerbaijan appealed Tuesday to the United Nations’ highest court to urgently order Armenia to stop the laying of land mines and booby traps on Azerbaijani territory and disclose the location of such explosives that already have been placed, in the latest legal battle focused on the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region. Azerbaijani Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Elnur Mammadov told judges …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Human Rights Watch urges investigation of alleged use of land mines by Ukraine

NPR

Human Rights Watch urges investigation of alleged use of land mines by Ukraine Enlarge this image toggle caption Future Publishing via Getty Images Future Publishing via Getty Images KYIV — A human rights group says it has documented "numerous cases" of Ukrainian forces firing land mines into territory that was controlled at the time by Russia. In a new report, …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Ukrainians learn mine-clearing skills from Cambodian experts

LA Times

A Ukrainian deminer, left, holds a mine detector as he listens to a Cambodia Mine Action Center demining expert, right, during a training session in Preytotoeung village, Battambang province, Cambodia, on Thursday. Cambodian experts, whose country has the dubious distinction of being one of the world’s most contaminated by land mines, walked a group of Ukrainian soldiers through a minefield …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Cambodian experts begin training Ukrainian deminers

Associated Press

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Fifteen Ukrainian deminers are being trained by experts in Cambodia who are among the world’s best because of experience from clearing the leftovers of nearly three decades of war. The Ukrainian deminers are being hosted by the Cambodian Mine Action Center, a government agency that oversees the clearing of land mines and unexploded ordnance in Cambodia. …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Most land mine use by US military banned, except for Korea

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration announced Tuesday that it would restrict the use of anti-personnel land mines by the U.S. military, aligning the country’s policy more closely with an international treaty banning the deadly explosives. Bonnie Jenkins, the State Department’s undersecretary for arms control and international security, said the new policy fulfills “a commitment that President Biden made as …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Russia-Ukraine crisis updates | April 5, 2022

The Hindu

As Russian invasion of Ukranian territories continues, world leaders are rallying to suspend Russia from its seat on the U.N.’s top human rights body. Read | The road to Ukraine peace runs through Delhi Here are the latest updates: United Nations Crimes by Russia no different than those carried out by ISIS: Ukraine President tells UNSC Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Russia urged to stop using land mines in its war in Ukraine

Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — A top official in the global campaign against the use of land mines urged Russia on Monday to stop its troops in Ukraine from laying the weapons that too often kill and maim civilians. Alicia Arango Olmos, Colombia’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva and this year’s president of the state parties to the 1997 convention …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Ukraine latest updates: Zelenskyy says Russia laying land mines

Al Jazeera

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says retreating Russian troops are leaving behind land mines creating a “catastrophic” situation. 2 Apr 2022 - 19:26 GMT Ukraine minister says regained control of ‘whole Kyiv region’ Ukraine has regained control of “the whole Kyiv region” after invading Russian forces retreated from some key towns near the Ukrainian capital, deputy defence minister Ganna Maliar has …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Oxfam says battle over Yemeni city displaced 1,00,000 people

The Hindu

A yearlong battle over the strategic Yemeni city of Marib has displaced about 1,00,000 people, the international charity group Oxfam said on February 8. The stark warning underscored how the fighting over Marib has worsening an already dire humanitarian situation of the displaced, many of whom have fled multiple times from fighting elsewhere in war-wrecked Yemen, Oxfam said. However, their …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Oxfam says battle over Yemeni city displaced 100,000 people

Associated Press

CAIRO — A yearlong battle over the strategic Yemeni city of Marib has displaced about 100,000 people., the international charity group Oxfam said Tuesday. The stark warning underscored how the fighting over Marib has worsened an already dire humanitarian situation of the displaced, many of whom have fled multiple times from fighting elsewhere in war-wrecked Yemen, Oxfam said. However, their …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Nagorno-Karabakh: Land still laced with mines, year after war

Al Jazeera

Several people have been killed and injured as de-mining agencies say lack of resources slows efforts to clear weaponry. They have found and destroyed almost 2,000 cluster munitions since the end of the war in November last year, but suffer from a lack of funding. “Cluster munitions have a high failure rate and can cause injuries and fatalities long after …

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3 years, 6 months ago

News18 Afternoon Digest: Delhi Hospital Revokes 'No Talking in Malayalam' Order for Nurses, Dilip Kumar Hospitalised & Other Top Stories

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Political Row Erupts as Delhi Hospital Bars Nurses from Talking in Malayalam at Work. Who Said What After a furor over its ‘no speaking in Malayalam at work’ order, a Delhi government hospital on Sunday revoked its circular for its nursing staff. Dilip Kumar Admitted to Mumbai Hospital For Breathlessness; Doctors Monitoring Veteran Actor Veteran Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar has …

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Lasers Are Making It Easier to Find Buried Land Mines

The UN chief and pope call for nations to end the use of antipersonnel land mines

US to give antipersonnel mines to Ukraine

The US is sending antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine. Here’s what it means

US to give antipersonnel mines to Ukraine

Ukraine to get US land mines for use against Russian forces: Reports

U.S. will allow Ukraine to use American antipersonnel land mines against Russian forces

Five people killed by unexploded land mines in Cambodia

Soldiers and civilians are dying as Mexican cartels embrace a terrifying new weapon: Land mines

AP orders stones for third phase of comprehensive land survey

South Sudan struggles to clear mines after decades of war as people start returning home

Azerbaijan to UN court: Armenia must stop laying land mines

Azerbaijan to UN court: Armenia must stop sowing land mines

Human Rights Watch urges investigation of alleged use of land mines by Ukraine

Ukrainians learn mine-clearing skills from Cambodian experts

Cambodian experts begin training Ukrainian deminers

Most land mine use by US military banned, except for Korea

Russia-Ukraine crisis updates | April 5, 2022

Russia urged to stop using land mines in its war in Ukraine

Ukraine latest updates: Zelenskyy says Russia laying land mines

Oxfam says battle over Yemeni city displaced 1,00,000 people

Oxfam says battle over Yemeni city displaced 100,000 people

Nagorno-Karabakh: Land still laced with mines, year after war

News18 Afternoon Digest: Delhi Hospital Revokes 'No Talking in Malayalam' Order for Nurses, Dilip Kumar Hospitalised & Other Top Stories