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The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro coordinated a specialized operation on Monday, April 13, 2026, to remove an explosive device found on the Copacabana beach boardwalk. The intervention occurred at the site where crews are currently building the stage Read More …
Troops of Sector 3 under the Joint Task Force (North East), Operation HADIN KAI, have repelled an attempted infiltration by insurgents at a military position in Monguno, but suffered fatal losses from an Improvised Explosive Device shortly after the engagement. Read More …
A team of Royal Navy divers safely detonated more than 3½ tonnes of explosives during a visit by HMS Tamar to the remote Pitcairn Islands. Pitcairn is a tiny British Overseas Territory in the southwest Pacific with only 38 residents Read More …
Controlled explosions were carried out by the Army last week, after 32 smoke mortars were discovered in Powys. The items were believed to have been found by someone digging in the Three Cocks area, near Brecon. They were safely removed Read More …
Lithuania has launched a trilateral explosive ordnance disposal exercise in Klaipėda, bringing together military specialists from Lithuania, Portugal and the United States. The drills, which opened on Monday, are taking place at the Kairiai training ground, within Klaipėda port waters, Read More …
Hezbollah has increasingly been using first-person-view (FPV) explosive suicide drones against Israeli forces in Lebanon, and while these technologies and tactics have been emerging in the Levant, they have long been established in the war between Ukraine and Russia. Drone Read More …
Explosive ordnance disposal experts from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region have recovered and destroyed 43 pieces of ammunition dating back to World War II. According to the State Emergency Service agency, 38 mortar shells and Read More …
The Finnish Defence Forces and police detonated an unexploded warhead found in a remote area of Iitti on Saturday. The device had detached from a suspected Ukrainian drone discovered nearby. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP) told Yle on Sunday that Read More …
Security forces have reportedly destroyed 21 bunkers in Manipur’s Ukhrul district and seized 13 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from the Tengnoupal district. On Saturday, 14 bunkers were destroyed in Sikibung village and seven in Mongkot Chepu, both under the jurisdiction Read More …
A security alert in the Canning Place area of north Belfast has now ended. Local policing Sergeant Kelly said: “A suspected pipe bomb was found at the front of a residential property on Sunday morning, 12th April.“ A number of Read More …
The IDF destroyed on Friday an explosives manufacturing lab in Tulkarm in the West Bank, the military said on Sunday morning. Numerous improvised explosive devices (IEDs), including about 200 pipe bombs, fire extinguishers, and large gas cylinders meant to be Read More …
A suspected unexploded World War II device was safely detonated in a controlled explosion at Mansel Park in Millbrook on Sunday afternoon. The Army’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal team rushed to the scene after the item was discovered by a man Read More …
Five officials, including three personnel of the Special Task Force (STF), were injured in a crude bomb explosion in Bihar’s Begusarai district on Saturday, police said. The incident happened in the Navkothi area in the afternoon, they said. The explosion Read More …
A 20-year-old man has been arrested after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman early Friday morning. The incident happened around 4:00 am when a suspect “threw an incendiary destructive device” at Read More …
The U.S. military has launched operations to begin de-mining the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said on Saturday. Centcom said in a social media post highlighted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that two Navy guided-missile destroyers began “setting Read More …
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has detected improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and anti-personnel mines along the Naikhongchhari border in Bandarban and seized a significant quantity of flammable chemical substances in separate operations. According to a BGB press release, a patrol team Read More …
A man from Webster is pleading guilty to building and setting off pipe bombs in Weare. Officials say Dale Stewart Jr. detonated two pipe bombs on Dustin Tavern Road and Sugar Hill Road in April 2023. Investigators found an undetonated Read More …
Jihadists killed an army general and several troops in an attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria, local government and intelligence sources told AFP Thursday. Brigadier General Oseni Omoh Braimah was the second top officer to be killed in Read More …
A man has been charged with terrorist offences involving a group in East Africa. Jermaine Grant, 43, of no fixed address, is accused of directing the activities of the Somali-based terrorist organisation Al-Shabaab. He has also been charged with three Read More …
Nearly 2,000 times in seven years, a bomb went off somewhere in Nigeria’s North-East. A new report puts a hard number on what security forces and civilians there have been living through. A 2025 Nigeria Mine Action review documents 1,934 Read More …