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- Nigeria: Police Service Commission in collaboration with Nigeria Police Force seeking to recruit 50,000 Police Constables
December 11, 2025
The Police Service Commission (PSC), in collaboration with the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is pleased to announce the commencement of recruitment of Fifty Thousand (50,000) Police Constables into the Nigeria ...
- UK: Police and fire crews ‘swarm military factory after blast’
December 11, 2025
An explosion has reportedly rocked a military supplies plant in the UK prompting a major emergency services response. The incident happened at Chemring Countermeasures facility near Salisbury at around 5.30pm ...
- Thailand: Army suspects foreigners operating Cambodian drones
December 11, 2025
The Thai army says it suspects English-speaking foreigners might be controlling Cambodian bomber drones that have targeted Thai forces during the ongoing border clashes. The 2nd Army Area, which is responsible ...
- NSWC Indian Head Division Co-Hosts EOD Technology and Bombing Prevention Summit
December 11, 2025
Indian Head, Md. – Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division’s (NSWC IHD) Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Center (EODTECHCEN) co-hosted the second annual EOD Technology and Bombing Prevention Summit at ...
- Sahel: Boko Haram’s intelligence networks fuel its deadly resurgence
December 11, 2025
Since launching its Camp Holocaust offensive at the beginning of 2025, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has carried out over 200 attacks, killing at least 500 people. And Jama’tu ...
- Ukraine: National Guard soldier killed, four injured in Kyiv explosions
December 11, 2025
A National Guard soldier was killed and four people were injured in two explosions in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district. The injured include another National Guard serviceman, a security guard, and two ...
- Pakistan: North Waziristan primary school destroyed in explosion
December 11, 2025
In North Waziristan’s Mir Ali area, a government primary school was destroyed in an overnight explosion, affecting more than 600 students and disrupting education in the region. In the Mir ...
- California: Beale EOD team safely disposes of Military Ordnance found in Mendocino County
December 10, 2025
The 9th Civil Engineer Squadron (CES) Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team, responded to Mendocino County, California, after local authorities reported the discovery of an item believed to be military Unexploded ...
- Cyprus: Bomb explosion in Akrotiri vehicle
December 10, 2025
A bomb exploded in a parked vehicle in the Akrotiri community in the early hours of Wednesday, according to the sovereign base areas (SBA) police. Officers were called to the scene ...
- Hawaii: Maui man sentenced to 40 months for possessing explosive powder
December 10, 2025
Jess Kiesel Lee, 43, of Kula, Maui, was sentenced last week by US District Judge Jill A. Otake to 40 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release ...
- Nigeria: IED explosion injures four in Borno, Boko Haram attack Yobe police officer’s home
December 10, 2025
Four people were injured when a truck carrying bags of onions reportedly triggered an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at Lingir Village, Guzamala Local Government Area, Borno State, on Wednesday. The ...
- Ukraine Launches GRIT Platform for Efficient Land Demining Prioritization
December 10, 2025
As part of the Demine Forum 2025, the Ministry of Economy and Environment presented the Ukrainian platform GRIT (Ground Rehabilitation through Innovation Technologies) for analysing territories for demining. Its task is ...
- Cambodia needs $150 million to be mine-free by 2030
December 10, 2025
Cambodia requires at least $150 million to complete humanitarian demining operations and reach its goal of becoming mine-free by 2030, Senior Minister Ly Thuch, First Vice-President of the Cambodian Mine ...
- Spain: The Centre of Excellence for Improvised Explosive Devices teaches the course on ‘Weapons Intelligence Team’
December 9, 2025
The Centre of Excellence for Improvised Explosive Devices (C-IED COE) organised and ran a new edition of the Weapons Intelligence Team (WIT) Training Developer Course at its facilities in Hoyo ...
- U.S., Japan Naval Forces Complete Mine Warfare Exercise 3JA 2025
December 9, 2025
The U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) completed Mine Warfare Exercise (MINEX) 3JA 2025 off the coast of Southern Japan near Aburatsu, Nov. 12-26. MINEX 3JA is part of ...
- Ireland: Viable explosive device and €18,000 in drugs seized in Limerick
December 9, 2025
Gardaí attached to the Limerick Divisional Drugs Unit conducted a search operation at two residential properties in Talbot Avenue, Prospect, Limerick on Monday afternoon, December 8th, 2025. The operation led ...
- Ukraine: UN FAO, Qatar Fund for Development allocate $10 mln to support rural communities affected by mine risk
December 9, 2025
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) have signed an agreement worth $10 million to support rural communities affected by ...
- Mexico: Car bomb targeting community police station kills 6 in Michoacán
December 8, 2025
The explosion of a car bomb outside a community police station in the town of Coahuayana, Michoacán, on Saturday killed six people, including at least three police officers. Michoacán Attorney ...
- UK: Teenager convicted of producing explosives
December 8, 2025
A call to a domestic assault has today led to the conviction of an 18-year-old man, who had spent years manufacturing a collection of weapons from his bedroom. Today, Sakhile Ntsele, ...
- Europol: New report explores use of robotics and unmanned systems in the fight against crime
December 8, 2025
The integration of unmanned systems into crime is already here, and we have to ask ourselves how criminals and terrorists might use drones and robots some years from now. Just as ...
- Northern Ireland: Viable pipe-bomb found as homes evacuated in West Belfast security alert
December 8, 2025
A number of homes were evacuated following the discovery of a pipe-bomb in West Belfast. Emergency services are currently at the scene in the Areema Drive area of Dunmurry. A pSNI ...
- From CBRN laboratory to battlefield: International field trials with gas masks
December 8, 2025
Worldwide, the demand for advanced equipment that provides protection against chemical and biological weapons is growing. Despite international treaties prohibiting the development, production and use of such weapons, incidents involving ...
- Nigeria: Authorities secure the release of 100 kidnapped students
December 8, 2025
After more than two weeks in captivity, 100 students kidnapped from their school in Nigeria have been released. On November 21, more than 300 hundred people, most of them students, ...
- Thailand launches air strikes after border clash with Cambodia kills soldier
December 8, 2025
Thailand launched air strikes on its neighbour Cambodia today, the Thai army said, with both sides trading blame for the latest eruption of fighting on their disputed border which killed ...
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