LAGOS - At least eight people were killed after a bus travelling along the Maiduguri-Damboa road in Nigeria's northeast Borno state on Saturday detonated a landmine, security sources and ...

An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other undetonated explosives in Cambodia, Belgian non-profit APOPO announced Friday.

After 14 years of brutal conflict in Syria, an estimated 5 million children are living in high-risk areas where deadly landmines and unexploded ordnance threaten every step they take outside their ...

Progress made over decades in ridding the world of landmines was at risk, he said. UNMAS's head of policy and advocacy, James Staples, said nearly 60 countries or territories, from Ukraine to ...

When you are actually in a healthy relationship devoid of emotional landmines, you might get anxious and feel like you have to do anything you can to keep it. But often what you think you ...

Ronin and his landmine-sniffing rat pack are making a name for rodents everywhere by saving innocent civilians from hidden explosives. The African giant pouched rat recently set a new world record ...

Every year, they kill and injure civilians, despite the government destroying 4 million landmines since the 1990s. Today, more than 5,000 people around the country are working to neutralise the ...

As countries quit the convention, global demining efforts are also backsliding amid "crippling" U.S. funding cuts, according to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. The U.S. government ...

Lithuania has since withdrawn from a separate treaty banning cluster munitions, and its Parliament is scheduled to vote this week on leaving the land mine convention, too. Latvia’s Foreign ...