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Latest News
- Israel: Bat Yam residents shaken by coordinated explosions
February 21, 2025
Residents of Bat Yam were left shaken on Thursday night after two explosions rocked empty buses in separate parking lots in the city. Security forces, including the Israel Police and the ...
- Italy prosecutors open terrorism probe into oil tanker blasts
February 20, 2025
Italian authorities opened a terrorism investigation into explosions last weekend that damaged an oil tanker off northern Italy, in the latest of four such incidents in the Mediterranean and Baltic ...
- Syria: Explosion leaves casualties in Idlib’s al-Nairab
February 20, 2025
An explosion of an unexploded ordnance in a residential home in the town of al-Nairab, eastern Idlib governorate, resulted in fatalities and injuries, amidst ongoing search operations for missing persons. A ...
- Florida man allegedly killed wife with homemade bomb inside car after argument
February 20, 2025
Shocking footage shows the moment a car exploded in Florida, killing a woman who police believe was targeted by her husband. Doorbell footage obtained by NBC 6 shows that the car ...
- Vietnam: $1.9 billion Quang Ninh LNG power project calls for mine clearance bids
February 20, 2025
The $1.9 billion Quang Ninh LNG power plant, the first such facility in northern Vietnam, is inviting bids for the mines and explosives clearance package. In a Tuesday announcement, the project ...
- Russia continues mine clearance operation in eastern Laos
February 20, 2025
Over the past three months, Lao and Russian military bomb disposal experts have removed 285 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from a planned total area of 187,180 square metres in ...
- Mexico: Jalisco Cartel using fake bodyguard job ads to recruit ex Colombian soldiers to produce landmines
February 19, 2025
The Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) is actively recruiting Colombian soldiers in order to handle the installation and production of explosives, more concretely landmines, according to testimony from a former ...
- Myanmar: Nine injured in landmine blast in Tanintharyi region
February 19, 2025
Nine people, including children, were injured in a landmine explosion in southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region on Tuesday (Feb 18). The attack carried out by terrorists occurred at around 2.10pm local time ...
- Japan: Man who attacked ex-PM Kishida with homemade pipe bomb is convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison
February 19, 2025
A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan’s former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 ...
- Nigeria: Two dead, dozens injured in Zamfara market explosion
February 19, 2025
Two victims of the gunpowder explosion that rocked the Talata Mafara weekly market in Zamfara State have died while receiving treatment at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto. The deceased, ...
- Zimbabwe appeals for more donor funding to complete landmine clearance
February 19, 2025
Zimbabwe on Tuesday appealed for more donor funding to complete the clearance of landmines in some parts of the country. Defense Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri made the call at a dialogue on ...
- Spain: Explosive substance seized at Mallorca school
February 18, 2025
The Guardia Civil has removed three bottles of picric acid, also known as trinitrophenol (TNP), from a secondary school in Llucmajor. The containers were found in the chemistry and biology ...
