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- Lebanese authorities arrest 25 after attack on UN peacekeepers
February 15, 2025
Lebanese authorities arrested more than 25 people on Saturday following an attack on a United Nations convoy that wounded two peacekeepers the day before, the interior minister said in a ...
- Austria: Man stabs 5 people in Villach killing 14-year-old in what police describe as a random attack
February 15, 2025
A 23-year-old man stabbed five passersby in southern Austria on Saturday in what police said was a random attack that left a 14-year-old dead and four others injured. The suspect was ...
- Spain: Authorities arrest fugitive responsible for 2017 bomb explosion in Florence
February 15, 2025
The anarchist Salvatore Vespertino, a fugitive since July 2023 who had been missing since February of the same year, was captured tonight in the Spanish city of Vallecas (Madrid). The anarchist, ...
- Israel: Hamas stages propaganda event as 3 hostages released in Gaza
February 15, 2025
The sixth round of the hostage release deal is underway, with Sagui Dekel-Chen, Iair Horn and Alexander “Sasha” Troufanov set to be handed over by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad ...
- Ukraine’s minefields must be a priority at Munich meeting
February 15, 2025
Clearing the deadly debris of war should be a key goal of delegates at the Munich Security Conference, the head of the world’s largest landmine clearance charity, The HALO Trust, ...
- Pakistan: At least 10 dead, 6 injured as blast in Harnai targets pickup truck carrying mine workers
February 14, 2025
At least 10 people were killed and six others were injured when an explosion hit a pickup truck carrying coal mine workers in Balochistan’s Harnai area on Friday, officials said. According ...
- Azerbaijan: Truck hits landmine in Aghdam
February 14, 2025
A truck struck a landmine in the liberated village of Bash Garvand, Agdam, causing serious damage to the vehicle, Azernews reports. The HOVA truck, which was operating in the area, was ...
- IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 275
February 14, 2025
A drone attack early this morning caused a fire on the building confining the remains of the reactor destroyed in the 1986 Chornobyl accident, a deeply concerning incident that underlines ...
- Cyprus: Police investigating explosion at woman’s house in Strovolos
February 13, 2025
Police were investigating an explosion that occurred in the early hours of Thursday at a woman’s home in Strovolos. The explosion at the 65-year-old’s home happened shortly before 1am, with ...
- Cambodia: CMAC team discovers war-left U.S. aerial bomb MK-82 in Kandal province
February 13, 2025
An expert team of the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) has found and safely removed a war-left U.S.-made MK-82 aerial bomb in southern Kandal province, a mine clearance chief said ...
- Solomon Islands Police Force EOD Team ends operation in Western Province
February 13, 2025
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) Explosive Ordnance Disposal Department (EODD) team has successfully concluded a significant operation on Shortland Islands in the Western Province (WP) recently. Supervising Director of ...
- France: Two people fight for life and 10 more injured after man throws grenade into Grenoble bar
February 13, 2025
Two people fighting for their lives are among the at least 12 who were injured after a grenade was thrown into a packed bar by a man brandishing a Kalashnikov ...
- Germany: At least 20 injured after car drives into crowd in Munich
February 13, 2025
A car plowed into a group of demonstrators in Munich on Thursday injuring at least 20 people, police said, hours before world leaders were set to descend on the southern ...
- US spy planes hunt for intel on Mexican drug cartels as surveillance flights surge near border
February 12, 2025
The US military has significantly increased its surveillance of Mexican drug cartels over the past two weeks, with sophisticated spy planes flying at least 18 missions over the southwestern US ...
- Libyan state minister survives assassination attempt in Tripoli
February 12, 2025
A Libyan state minister survived an assassination attempt when gunmen opened fire on his car in the capital Tripoli on Wednesday, a government statement said. The Tripoli-based Government of National Unity ...
- UK to allocate US$5.5 bn in military aid to Ukraine this year
February 12, 2025
UK Defence Secretary John Healey has announced that Britain will provide £4.5 billion (approx. US$5.5 billion) in military aid to Ukraine in 2025. Healey at a Ramstein-format meeting on Wednesday, 12 ...
- U.S. Navy EOD and divers conduct arctic warfare training exercise SNOWCRABEX 2025
February 12, 2025
LITTLE FALLS, Minn. – U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group (EODGRU) 2, conducted Snow Crab Exercise 2025 at Camp Ripley in Little Falls, Minnesota, Jan. 27-Feb. 7. SNOWCRABEX, controlled this year ...
- IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 274
February 12, 2025
Today’s scheduled rotation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team currently based at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) was cancelled as a result of intense military activity in ...
- Uganda: Ebola cases in rise to 9, while 265 others are being monitored under quarantine
February 11, 2025
Ebola cases in Uganda have risen to nine, while 265 other people were being monitored under quarantine, health authorities said Tuesday. The nine include the first victim, a male nurse who ...
- Somalia: ISIS attacks military bases in Puntland
February 11, 2025
ISIS attacked military bases in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland state overnight with suicide car and motorbike bombs, a military official said on Tuesday. Puntland announced a major offensive against ISIS and a ...
- Northern Ireland: Enniskillen man facing explosive charges to be quizzed about ‘separate suspected incidents’
February 11, 2025
A Co Fermanagh man allegedly involved in transporting radio-controlled explosives designed to pierce armoured vehicles is to be questioned about separate suspected incidents, a court heard on Tuesday. The suspect is ...
- India: Police recover 16000kg of explosives from truck, detain driver and his aide in West Bengal
February 11, 2025
On Tuesday (11th January) morning, the police recovered 16000 kg of explosives from a truck in the Rampurhat area in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. According to reports, the cops ...
- Ireland: Gardaí appeal for information following pipebomb attack in Limerick
February 11, 2025
Gardaí appealed for witnesses on Tuesday after a pipe bomb was thrown at the front entrance of a house in Limerick overnight but failed to detonate. It’s believed the attack ...
- Afghanistan: Suicide bombing in Kunduz kills five, injures seven
February 11, 2025
A spokesman for the Kunduz police headquarters says five people were killed and seven others injured in a suicide bombing on Tuesday morning. Jumaddin Khaksar, a spokesman for the provincial police ...
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