An outdated mining law from 1872 allows companies in the United States to claim mineral rights on most federally owned land, much of which was taken from Indigenous people. A new report from Human ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – A landmine explosion in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor countryside has left four children injured, underscoring the persistent dangers posed by remnants of war in the region, the Syrian ...

AN ongoing China-aided landmine elimination project has cleared over 150sq km of land contaminated with mines and explosive remnants of war (ERWs) in Cambodia, benefiting about 2.5 million people ...

Daw Khin, 57, stepped on a landmine while cleaning her outdoor toilet. She had only recently returned to her village in Myanmar's eastern Karenni State in 2022, more than a year after being forced ...

A $110-million-plus project to build nearly 1.4 million square feet of warehouses on former mine land above the Casey Highway in Mayfield and Archbald is closer to materializing. Century ...

Only the invention of the metal detector created an effective tool for clearing minefields after the war. Despite great advances in technology, progress was slow. The First World War had not even ...

Each M692 carries 36 M67 anti-personnel landmines (APL), each round of which can rapidly deliver a 600 square meter (6,500 square feet) minefield out to a range of around 18 kilometers, which can be ...

According to data from the Collective Awareness To UXO (unexploded ordnance), it is a “High-Explosive-Blast (HE-Blast), large metal cased, Anti-Vehicle (AV), landmine which may be laid ...

“There is a good chance people are going to die,” said Bill Morse, who co-founded Cambodian Self Help Demining and the Landmine Relief Fund. “Somebody is going to walk into a minefield that ...

Mendhar/Jammu: At least three landmines exploded due to a forest fire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district on Sunday, officials said. A fire broke out in Behrooti forest ahead of the ...

Jack Lummus' professional football career ended the moment a landmine blew off both of his legs at Iwo Jima. Lummus, a Marine Corps first lieutenant who died on March 8, 1945, at the age of 29 ...

Mali demands $199 million, new mining code compliance Barrick suspends operations after Mali seizes $250 million gold Mali issues arrest warrant for Barrick CEO Mark Bristow TORONTO, Jan 27 ...