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Lithuania will be assisting Azerbaijan in the area of mine action through the EU Team Europe Initiative in 2023, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Trend. “Azerbaijan is one of Lithuania’s strongest partners in terms of the number of Read More …
According to preliminary information, two people were injured in a blast that rocked the southwestern Russian city of Belgorod late on Thursday, Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on his Telegram channel. The Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday that Read More …
Austria will support humanitarian mine clearance efforts in Ukraine, as part of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Support Programme for Ukraine. According to Alexander Schallenberg, Federal Minister for European and International Affairs of the Republic of Read More …
Further searches are under way after a bomb squad removed a “suspect item” from a flat in Glasgow on Monday. Police were called to the scene on Petershill Road in the Springburn area of the city just after 10am on Read More …
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had prevented an attack on energy systems in annexed Crimea, state media reported Wednesday. An unidentified Russian-Ukrainian national was detained in the Crimean city of Kerch on suspicion of preparing to commit an Read More …
Homes have been evacuated and a man has been arrested after bomb disposal units were called to a block of flats in Glasgow. Police are currently at the scene on Petershill Road in the Springburn area of the city after Read More …
A controlled explosion was carried out after a device, thought to be a corroded mortar shell, was found at a nature reserve. Suffolk police was called to Cavenham Heath Nature Reserve, Tuddenham St Mary, about 15:00 BST on Sunday after Read More …
A suspected petrol bomb has been thrown at a police vehicle in Derry. The incident happened in the Shearwater Way area of Derry at around 10am on Saturday as officers attended a reported incident. The PSNI said the vehicle then came Read More …
The Police arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with an investigation into a case of illegal possession and storage of explosives. Before the arrest and securing a court warrant, the Police carried out an investigation of the young man’s home Read More …
A Spanish magistrate on Friday ordered the conditional release of a man charged with terrorism for sending six letters containing explosives to high-profile diplomatic and government targets. The National Court magistrate said Pompeyo González Pascual, 74, must appear in court Read More …
Counter terrorism police have been deployed to the aftermath of a small explosion at a house. Emergency services were called to the property in Loring Road in Sharnbrook following the incident at about 19:40 BST on Monday. Bedfordshire Police said Read More …
Four suspected pipe bombs have been found by police in a cemetery in Northern Ireland. Officers sealed off the City Cemetery in Creggan, Londonderry, on Tuesday following the discovery of a suspicious device. Police said all four devices were located Read More …
Police in Northern Ireland have condemned a petrol bomb attack on officers during an Easter parade as “senseless and reckless”. The incendiary devices were thrown at an armoured police Land Rover in Creggan, Londonderry, on Easter Monday, while officers attended Read More …
Police in Northern Ireland have said they have “strong” intelligence terror attacks are being planned against their officers on Easter Monday. Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Simon Byrne said that officers would be moved to frontline duties Read More …
The EU has launched a project to train and donate 50 explosive and mine detection dogs to the Ukrainian authorities. Nine of them have already been paired with Ukrainian dog handlers. According to the European Commission, 30% of Ukraine’s territory Read More …
Ukraine needs $37.4 billion to carry out humanitarian demining of its lands, the country’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on April 4, citing an assessment by the World Bank. This sum includes more than $397 million needed just for the Read More …
Police in Sweden have arrested five people suspected of conspiracy to commit terrorist offences. Raids were carried out in the towns of Eskiltuna and Strängnäs, west of Stockholm; and Linköping, south of the capital, on Tuesday morning, with the Swedish Read More …
Passengers travelling through London City Airport will no longer have to limit their liquids to 100ml in their hand luggage as high-tech CT scanners have been introduced at security. The move, which will be implemented today, comes after the government Read More …
U.S. aid helped Ukraine clear and destroy more than 530 explosive remnants from its land last year, but Ukraine still has massive swaths of territory contaminated with land mines, unexploded ordnance and improvised explosive devices as a result of Russia’s Read More …
According to data from UNFICYP, 47 suspected hazardous areas in Cyprus could be contaminated with mines and/or explosive remnants of war (ERW), covering roughly 1.7 million square meters of land. A factsheet from UNFICYP, updated in October 2018, shows that Read More …