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A 38-year-old woman who was seriously injured in an early-morning explosion in central Thessaloniki has died from her injuries. The blast occurred in a parking lot next to a bank branch, at the intersection of Platonos and Agios Dimitriou streets, Read More …
Even after 16 years after the guns fell silent in Sri Lanka’s civil war, the hidden danger of landmines still lingers across the Northern and Eastern provinces. Speaking at a Donor Coordination and Appreciation Ceremony in Colombo yesterday, Prime Minister Read More …
In Mykolaiv region, demining operators are using an industrial drone system equipped with a modern magnetometer to detect explosive ordnance. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense, according to Ukrinform. The ministry reminds that southern Ukraine is one of Read More …
Police sources revealed that a specialized team from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal–Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (EOD-CBRN) unit was immediately dispatched to the scene. Reportedly, the device, suspected to be linked to the earlier military incident, was safely evacuated by Read More …
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition campaign group said Friday that one of its ships bound for the Gaza Strip, carrying aid and dozens of activists, was attacked in international waters by drones in the middle of the night off Malta, causing Read More …
The U.S. is pushing Congo and Rwanda to sign a peace accord at the White House in about two months, accompanied by bilateral mineral deals that would bring billions of dollars of Western investment to the region, President Donald Trump’s Read More …
A 56-year-old Styrian was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday at the Graz Regional Criminal Court for several bombs he had built and placed at the Jehovah’s Witnesses. The IT technician had actually intended to kill his ex-wife, he confessed Read More …
New York state’s fifth annual Canine Week is being held at the state’s Preparedness Training Center in Oriskany, in Oneida County. Fifty-seven explosive detection teams across the state are participating. “When an opportunity comes along to become a K-9 handler, Read More …
A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with a series of explosions in a southeast Salem neighborhood. The first explosion was reported on Wed., April 23 around 2:30 a.m. According to the Salem police department, investigators found damage to a Read More …
An explosion happened on Tuesday in Aralia village, Baluakandi union, Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj while a bomb squad was trying to deactivate a mortar shell. The blast damaged several nearby houses. Gazaria Police Station’s Investigation Officer, Shahidul Islam, said the Read More …
A blast bomb thrown at a family home in Belfast last weekend could have killed, the Sunday World has been told. The explosive device – found in the garden of a property in Cluanbeg Drive on the loyalist Rathcoole estate Read More …
At least nine people have been killed in a suburb of the Syrian capital after clashes broke out between government forces and local Druze gunmen, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The fighting in Damascus’ suburb of Read More …
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained three agents of Ukraine’s special services who were plotting to assassinate a serviceman taking part in the special military operation, the FSB press office reported. “In Khanty-Mansiysk Region, the FSB has thwarted the Read More …
Under pressure of the Military Forces, the perpetrators abandoned a cloth bag containing four explosive devices, each weighing approximately one kilogram, in a wooded area. The troops moved to the place, and following the security protocols, the Sok on a Read More …
Due to the discovery of an aerial bomb in Oldřišov in the Opava region, the police, in cooperation with firefighters, had to evacuate around 200 people today. The bomb was found during excavation work and was disposed of by bomb Read More …
During planned demining operations that began late last week on Saaremaa, bomb disposal experts have already discovered 1,260 explosive devices. The search efforts will continue through May 5. The first days of large-scale demining operations that began on April 25 Read More …
Declassified images from U.S. military satellites are helping find forgotten mine fields in Cambodia. From the late 1960s almost until the end of the 1990s, a bloody war between communist groups and democracy defenders raged, with a few short breaks, Read More …
At least 26 people were killed on Monday when two vehicles detonated an improvised explosive device in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, the heartland of an Islamist insurgency, residents said. The International Safety Organization, which provides security to foreign non-governmental organisations Read More …
Dover Coastguard requested Southend-on-Sea RNLI volunteers to assist with the controlled detonation of ordinance found to the east of Canvey point. The charity’s hovercraft, H004 Vera Ravine was launched at 4pm Sunday afternoon 27 April 2025. Due to the location Read More …
The ISIL (ISIS) group has killed five Kurdish fighters in an attack in eastern Syria’s Deir Az Zor, the group’s news agency has reported, underscoring concerns about its resurgence. Farhad Shami, spokesperson for Syria’s Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), confirmed Read More …