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- IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – update 221
April 9, 2024
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was informed about a further drone attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) today, in the latest indication of a major worsening of ...
- Children and War: The Impact of Weapon Contamination in Iraq
April 8, 2024
As one of the most heavily contaminated countries in the world, Iraq grapples with the enduring legacy of past conflicts, including landmines and cluster munitions. Basra, in particular, stands as ...
- Singapore: Security officer to be charged for failure to dispose of fake bomb during exercise
April 8, 2024
A 46-year-old security officer’s failure to dispose of a fake improvised explosive device (IED) used in a simulation exercise led to police officers being activated to investigate a bomb threat. Investigations ...
- India: Huge cache of explosives recovered in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district
April 8, 2024
Security forces recovered a huge cache of explosives, hidden by Naxalites, from two places in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Sunday, an official said. The recovery was made between Tondamarka and Dabbamarka ...
- Pakistan: One police officer killed, 6 others wounded in grenade attack at a mosque near Quetta
April 8, 2024
A police officer died and six other officers were wounded in a grenade attack Monday at a mosque in southwestern Pakistan, authorities said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack ...
- Sri Lanka: A stretch remains to be cleared of landmines in North
April 8, 2024
Chief Government Whip and Housing Minister Prasanna Ranatunga on Saturday said that there was a stretch of 23 km to be cleared of landmines in the North. Addressing a ceremony held ...
- Idaho Man Arrested for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS
April 8, 2024
Alexander Scott Mercurio, 18, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was arrested Saturday, April 6, 2024, in Coeur d’Alene for attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS. According to the affidavit ...
- Lithuania: Molotov cocktails thrown at Russian embassy in Vilnius
April 8, 2024
The Russian embassy in Vilnius was targeted with Molotov cocktails on two consecutive nights, prompting an extensive investigation by Lithuanian authorities, according to reports on Monday. The first attack occurred late ...
- ASEAN member states in Cambodia visit mine clearing activities in Oddar Meanchey province
April 7, 2024
Ly Thuch, First Vice President of Cambodia Mine Action Authority (CMAA), led a delegation from the Embassy of ASEAN Member States in Cambodia to inspect the demining activities of Halo ...
- Lebanon: Chinese, French peacekeepers exchange mine clearance, EOD experience
April 7, 2024
The 22nd Chinese Peacekeeping Multi-Role Engineering Company to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) had exchanges on mine clearance and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) with the French peacekeeping ...
- Pakistan: Six law enforcers killed in attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan
April 7, 2024
Six security personnel, including a DSP, were martyred and 12 militants killed in separate incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan on Friday night and Saturday. In one incident, eight militants were ...
- Ukraine: IAEA experts confirmed physical impact of drone attacks at ZNPP
April 7, 2024
IAEA experts confirmed physical impact of drone attacks at ZNPP today, incl. at 1 of its 6 reactors. One casualty reported. Damage at unit 6 has not compromised nuclear safety, but ...
- Azerbaijan: Excavator hits landmine in Aghdam
April 7, 2024
An incident involving a landmine occurred in the Novruzlu village area of the Aghdam district, Azernews reports. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General’s Office, and the Mine Action Agency ...
- Syria: 7 children killed in explosive device blast in Daraa countryside
April 6, 2024
Seven children were martyred and two civilians were injured, including a woman, when an explosive device planted by terrorists exploded in the southern neighborhood of Al-Sanamayn city in the northern ...
- New Jersey, Delaware, Idaho Guard Conduct Interagency Training
April 5, 2024
TRENTON, N.J. – The New Jersey, Delaware and Idaho National Guard participated in interagency chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosives training with the FBI and state and local law ...
- UNDP equips 1,010 State Service of Emergency of Ukraine deminers with support from EU, governments of Denmark, Japan and Sweden
April 5, 2024
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine, with generous funding from the European Union, the governments of Denmark, Japan and Sweden, has provided a substantial batch of demining and ...
- India: Kerala CPI(M) worker dies as crude bomb explodes in Kannur
April 5, 2024
A CPI(M) worker was killed and another seriously injured when a crude bomb, which they were allegedly making, went off in Kerala’s Kannur district early on Friday. The police have identified ...
- Australia: Nations combine on mine warfare activity
April 5, 2024
The Royal Australian Navy has laid sea mines for the first time in nearly 50 years during Exercise Dugong. The mine warfare and clearance diving activity, from March 4-22, was designed ...
- UNMAS: It is time to stop the use by terrorists and other non-State armed groups of improvised explosive devices
April 4, 2024
Director of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), Ilene Cohn, said, “it is time to stop the use by terrorists and other non-State armed groups of improvised explosive devices.” ...
- Ukraine: International partners have allocated over US$700 million for humanitarian mine action projects
April 4, 2024
Ukraine’s international partners have allocated more than US$700 million in equivalent funds for humanitarian demining projects between 2022 and 2027. It is noted that the key donors to Ukraine are the ...
- Vietnam: Mine clearance of unexploded ordnance continues
April 4, 2024
Efforts to settle the consequences of bombs and mines in 2024 will continue focusing on clearing bombs, mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) left over from the war and supporting victims, ...
- UN reaffirms their support to Somalia in protecting lives from explosive ordnance
April 4, 2024
On the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, the United Nations reaffirms their support to Somalia in protecting the lives of civilians from the explosive hazards ...
- NATO to plan long-term Ukraine aid, mulls 100-billion euro fund
April 4, 2024
NATO allies agreed on Wednesday to initiate planning on long-term military support for Ukraine, but a proposal by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to do so via a 100 billion-euro ...
- Liquid restrictions at UK airports to remain in place until June 2025
April 4, 2024
Travellers will have to wait another year for 100ml limit to be lifted after government extends deadline for new scanners. The Department for Transport had previously set a target for the introduction of ...
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