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Security forces have destroyed about 601 acres of illegal poppy cultivation across Manipur over the past five days, from December 16 to 20, and recovered a 9-kg improvised explosive device (IED) in Thoubal district on Saturday, police said. The biggest Read More …
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 the military facilities at around 11.00 am. Private Alejandro Carvajal Read More …
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 occurred closed to the Scripture Union building along the Lengakiki Read More …
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 40-year-old resident of Ternopil who attempted to send ammunition Read More …
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 Hodeidah city. The operation was supported by the International Committee Read More …
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 cleared in Western Province under Operation Render Safe. Officer-in-Charge Read More …
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 United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) to demine areas preventing Read More …
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 Conference Hall Baroo today. The table-top exercise aimed at strengthening Read More …
The Center for Documenting Violations Against Shia in Syria strongly condemns the horrific crime committed by armed gangs affiliated with the criminal Jolani in the Ghazlaniyah area of Damascus countryside. The attack claimed the life of citizen Atallah Al-Qattan, a Read More …
Scores of people have been killed in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during their recent capture of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region, according to a medical group and researchers. The RSF, which has been Read More …
Gardai have arrested a man over an anthrax hoax aimed at an associate of the editor of Ireland’s leading conservative news site. The Irish Mirror reports that gardai believe the woman who was the victim of the hoax sent to Read More …
Elite policemen from the Special Action Force (SAF) arrested a suspected bombmaker of the Dawlah Islamiyah- Hassan Group during an operation in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat. Police Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez, Jr., acting chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Read More …
Three Syrian soldiers were injured while carrying out demining operations in the countryside of Homs near the Syrian-Lebanese border and in the town of Kafr Nabouda in Hama countryside, military source said Tuesday. “Three soldiers from the engineering units of Read More …
About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting 81 suspects and sparking shootouts that left at least 60 suspects and four police officers dead, officials said. The Read More …
A man who was found with a large amount of dangerous chemicals in his garden shed has been convicted of various offences linked to explosive and poisonous substances. Harry Whittaker, aged 31, was arrested on 6 May 2024 after Bedfordshire Read More …
Nine Levies officials and a pedestrian were injured in a roadside explosion that targeted the convoy of the Kech deputy commissioner in Turbat on Monday. In a separate incident, dozens of armed men invaded a town in Kacchi district and Read More …
The US military conducted strikes against four more boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 14 people on board the vessels, with one survivor, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. It marked the first time multiple strikes Read More …
The Garda Emergency Response Unit observed a week-long simulated counter-terrorism naval exercise organised by Sweden and the EU police agency Europol. Ten member states took part in the various exercises, and three states — including Ireland — were there as Read More …
A man who left “sophisticated graffiti art” outside the US Embassy as a “gift” has denied making a hoax bomb threat. Daniel Parmenter, 44, who lives with his mother in Bayswater, west London, had left a collection of items – Read More …
A senior al-Shabaab commander and founding member of the militant group was killed in a Somali government airstrike in Middle Jubba, the Defence Ministry announced Monday. The ministry said the strike, conducted on the night of October 26, targeted Bu’aale, Read More …