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Latest News
- Bangladesh: One killed, two hurt in bomb, gun attack on BNP office
November 3, 2025
A retired schoolteacher was killed and two others injured in a bomb and gun attack at a BNP office near the IT Gate of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology ...
- Nigeria says US help against Islamist insurgents must respect its sovereignty
November 3, 2025
Nigeria said on Sunday it would welcome U.S. help in fighting Islamist insurgents as long as its territorial integrity is respected, responding to threats of military action by President Donald ...
- Pakistan: Security forces defuse 100kg bomb in Kalat
November 2, 2025
Security forces on Sunday successfully defused a 100-kilogram locally manufactured bomb in Balochistan’s Kalat district, preventing what officials said could have been a large-scale terrorist attack. According to Levies sources, the ...
- Estonia: ‘Large aerial bomb’ found in Ida-Viru County
November 2, 2025
A large explosive device found in a forested area in Ida-Viru County Sunday morning is to be detonated by a bomb disposal team. The bomb disposal unit that responded to ...
- Nigeria: Troops foil terrorist attacks, secure North East communities
November 2, 2025
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), Joint Task Force North East, have successfully thwarted multiple terrorist attacks and neutralised key threats in the North East region. According to Lieutenant Colonel Sani ...
- Italy: A bomb attack on a Postamat station leaves criminals fleeing empty-handed
November 2, 2025
They planted a crude but still high-impact bomb in the Postamat cash dispenser in Tinnura. The explosion destroyed the machine and threw shrapnel onto a car, but it still didn’t open ...
- UK: Two arrested, ten people in hospital after mass stabbing attack on board Doncaster to London train
November 2, 2025
Ten people are in hospital – nine believed to have life-threatening injuries – after a stabbing attack on board a Doncaster-London King’s Cross train on Saturday. Two people have been arrested ...
- Cambodia, Thailand Designate Pilot Site for Border Demining
November 1, 2025
Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to launch a pilot humanitarian demining operation along their shared border, the Cambodian Ministry of National Defence said Friday. The Cambodia–Thailand Joint Coordinating Task Force (JCTF) ...
- Pakistan: Abandoned telephone exchange building blown up in Lakki
November 1, 2025
An old and abandoned building of a telephone exchange was blown up with explosives in Takhtikhel area of Lakki Marwat district on Friday, the police said. An official said that the ...
- Syria: SDF says captured five ISIS militants in Raqqa
November 1, 2025
Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday said they “dismantled” an Islamic State (ISIS) cell, in a “precise” security operation in coordination with international coalition forces in Raqqa province, capturing ...
- Ukraine: Anti-tank mines from downed Russian drone destroyed in Sumy region
November 1, 2025
Police bomb disposal experts in the Sumy region destroyed anti-tank mines that were attached to a downed Russian drone. According to Ukrinform, the Sumy region police reported this on Telegram. “The ...
- Spain: One soldier dead and another injured after explosion at the Álvarez de Sotomayor army base in Almeria
October 31, 2025
Private Daniel Ruiz Mateo, assigned to the Command of the ‘Álvarez de Sotomayor’ Manoeuvring and Shooting Range, in Viator (Almeria), died this Friday, 31 October, after an explosion occurred at ...
- Solomon Islands: Bomb explodes at Townground area
October 31, 2025
An unexploded ordinance (UXO) went off this evening, Thursday, at Town Ground, West Honiara causing a huge bang and fear within the vicinity. Reports reaching Solomon Star said, the explosion ...
- Ukraine: Explosion at Ukrposhta sorting center in Kyiv, police detain suspect
October 31, 2025
Police have detained a man involved in the explosion at one of the sorting centers of Ukrposhta, Ukraine`s National Post, in the Solomianskyi district on October 30. The suspect is a ...
- Yemen: Executive Mine Action Center destroys war remnants in Hodeidah
October 31, 2025
The Executive Center for Mine Action carried out an operation today to destroy large quantities of war remnants—including landmines, cluster munitions, and other explosives—north of the Kilo 16 area in ...
- Solomon Islands: Over 6k UXOs disposed off in 2024
October 30, 2025
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Unit of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) has safely disposed of 6,121 unexploded ordnances (UXOs) nation-wide in 2024. Of this total, 3,200 UXOs were ...
- UK pledges £4m to clear land mines to help flow of aid in Gaza
October 30, 2025
The UK will give £4m to help clear landmines from parts of Gaza so more aid can get in, the foreign secretary has announced. It will be used by the ...
- Kashmir: NDRF conducts Table-Top Exercise on CBRN in Kargil
October 30, 2025
In view of the upcoming mock exercise on Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN), the 13th Battalion, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) conducted a Table Top Exercise (TTE) today at ...
