Europe

January 23, 2023

Today (23 January 2023) the government has laid secondary legislation to further tighten controls for poisons and chemicals which can be used to make explosives, also known as ‘explosives precursors’, by updating the Poisons Act 1972. Following the Manchester Arena attack in 2017, the government committed to enhancing its capabilities to detect terrorist activity including that ...

January 23, 2023

Japan’s foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said his government will continue contributing to the reconstruction of Ukraine through demining cooperation with Cambodia and other countries. Hayashi made the remarks as the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) held a January 20 closing ceremony for a weeklong mine clearance technology training course for Ukrainian officers. The training, which began ...

January 21, 2023

Hanna Zamazieieva, head of the Mykolaiv Oblast Council, reported on Jan. 21 that a car hit a landmine in the village of Liubomyrivka in Mykolaiv Oblast. According to her, four people were injured, including a three-week-old baby. She urged residents to be cautious. According to Ukraine’s Reintegration Ministry, Mykolaiv Oblast is one of the most explosive-contaminated ...

January 20, 2023

A man has been arrested after he was found with a suspicious device and a suspected firearm outside a Leeds hospital, leading to a partial evacuation. People were asked to avoid the entrance to the Gledhow Wing of St James’s Hospital, which houses most of its maternity services, after the 27-year-old was detained at about 5am. Read ...

January 18, 2023

A car was severely damaged from an improvised explosive device that went off in the early hours of Wednesday morning, police said. According to police, the device went off in Skarinou, Larnaca at around 2.45am. At the scene, police determined that the explosion was caused by a pipe bomb, which was placed under the car that was ...

January 17, 2023

The event, organised in cooperation with NATO Headquarters Sarajevo, highlighted the significant participation of scientists from Bosnia and Herzegovina in regional and international research efforts. In the past ten years, over a dozen activities have been developed with Bosnia and Herzegovina within the framework of NATO’s Science for Peace and Security Programme, in such topics ...

January 17, 2023

Police are investigating a powerful explosion at the entrance to a restaurant in the central Södermalm district of Stockholm overnight. No-one was injured in the blast, but the front of the restaurant suffered extensive damage and a number of windows in residential buildings in the area were broken in the blast. Read more… Source: SverigesRadio  

January 16, 2023

There are about 80 kilograms of explosive material in the remnants of a missile detected on Saturday, January 14, in the area of the Larga border sector, Briceni district, say representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI), urging people not to approach the security zone where the explosives were discovered. “The IGPF (General Inspectorate of ...

January 13, 2023

Three powerful explosions were reported on Jan. 13 near an air base in Russian-occupied Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Viktoria Halitsina, head of the city military administration, told Suspilne television. A fire broke out at the site of the explosions, she said. Russian state-controlled news agency RIA Novosti reported that a car used by Alexei Kichigin, head of Berdiansk’s ...

January 11, 2023

Turkey is sending Ukraine US-designed cluster bombs after Kyiv was denied the weapons by Washington, it is claimed. American and European officials have told Foreign Policy that Ankara is supplying Ukraine with the potent – but controversial – artillery-fired weapon, with which it can target Russian tanks and troops. While some nations have taken clear sides in ...

January 10, 2023

A Syrian Civil War Chechen jihadist organization leader was confirmed as fighting in Ukraine against Russian forces in footage published by Ukrainian military intelligence on Saturday. Rustam Azhiev, better known by his nom-de-guerre Abdul Hakim al-Shishani, was shown in a video of operations in the Donbas city of Bakhmut, firing what was identified as an ...

January 9, 2023

A dog walker has spoken of his shock after he found an unexploded ‘nail bomb’ near a children’s play area in a Hull park. Joe Smith, who lives on Rosmead Street nearby, was astounded when he found what he described as a ‘nail bomb’ in Rosmead Street Park at 7.30pm on Saturday, 7 January. He came ...

January 8, 2023

A man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of procuring the deadly poisons cyanide and ricin to be used in an “Islamist-motivated” attack, authorities have said. The 32-year-old, an Iranian citizen, was arrested in the city of Castrop-Rauxel, in western Germany, on Sunday. “The suspect is suspected of having prepared a serious act of violence endangering ...

January 6, 2023

Residents living near an area of woodland where a blue police tent has been set up said they had heard a “few controlled explosions”. However, they added they were still none the wiser about what was going on as officers work at the scene for the third day. The woodland around Old Quarry Drive in Upper Gornal ...

January 5, 2023

A Thornhill-based landmine clearing charity has been given Scottish Government funding to continue its work in Ukraine. The Halo Trust is working in the war-torn country to remove explosives left behind by Russia’s invasion and has been handed £300,000 from Holyrood. The money will go towards helping educate local residents and farmers on how to farm safely. Read ...

January 5, 2023

A downtown Stockton market was scorched in a Molotov cocktail attack and a subsequent explosion Wednesday night, forcing 35 residents out of their apartments, which are right above the store, authorities said. Two separate arson incidents were reported at the Grab and Go Market near the corner of Acacia and El Dorado Streets Wednesday night, police ...

January 5, 2023

The artillery shells can be used in several types of artillery, including the M109 Norway donated last year. – It is critical for Europe’s and Norway’s security that Ukraine succeeds in repelling Russia’s unfounded attack. To do this, Ukraine needs international support of military equipment and training. Norway has made substantial contributions throughout 2022, and will ...

January 1, 2023

An explosion has rocked part of the city after a shell thought to be from the Second World War was destroyed on Brighton beach. Bomb disposal teams were called and a cordon was set up after reports that a wartime shell had washed up on the beach. The explosion was heard by residents as far away as ...