By Mohammed Ati BASRA, Iraq, April 24 (Reuters) - The Iraqis who pick over their country's old battlefields for military scrap metal and wiring have few other ways to make a living, but the task...
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Menace of Houthi-laid landmines adds to Yemeni misery
by Reuters Thursday, 8 March 2018 15:52 GMT "I was walking with my brother, I stepped on a mine and it went off" Houthis plant thousands of anti-personnel mines Mines have killed dozens in just a few...
Mines still claim legs and lives in Libya's Benghazi, months after war ceased
Mines planted during more than three years of war in Benghazi are taking a high toll on under-equipped deminers and residents trying to return to districts where protracted battles took place By...
Iraqis desperate to return to homes rigged with bombs by Islamic State
Many villagers have been killed or maimed by mines and booby traps left behind by fighters as they withdrew By John Davison BASHIQA, Iraq, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Khedr Selim trod gingerly through the...
Funding cuts, insurgency hamper Afghan goal to clear mines by 2023
"The longer these minefields last, the higher the human cost" Uncleared minefields deter investment, hinder economic recovery International funding for landmine clearance decreasing Conflict makes...
Iraqi military freezes civilians' return to Ramadi over mine deaths
BAGHDAD, April 24 (Reuters) - Iraq's military called for civilians displaced from Ramadi to stop returning home after dozens of them were killed by Islamic State mines planted in the western city's...
Bombs hamper troops two weeks after victory declared in Iraq's Ramadi
BAGHDAD, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Two weeks after declaring victory over Islamic State in Ramadi, Iraq's elite counter-terrorism forces have pushed militants out to its eastern suburbs, but bombs littering...
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In school on Syria border, Turkey's challenges as EU gatekeeper are clear
Source: Reuters - Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:03 GMT *Poor pay, lack of prospects strengthen allure of Europe *Even with foreign aid, children work to support families *Land mines, insecurity make Syria...
Colombia aims to rid country of landmines by 2025 - campaigners
By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA, March 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Colombia, one of the most mine-scarred countries in the world, could be free of landmines in a decade after the government and FARC...
French forces detain suspects in Mali U.N. attack
Source: Reuters - Sun, 19 Oct 2014 16:47 GMT Author: Reuters DAKAR, Oct 19 (Reuters) - French forces have detained three men and seized a large cache of arms which they believe were linked to a...
More than 60 deminers seized in mass Afghan kidnapping
By Dylan Welch KABUL, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Unknown gunmen on Tuesday seized more than 60 Afghan workers clearing Soviet-era anti-tank mines in western Herat province, the largest mass kidnapping...
India + 1 more
Heavy rainfall worsening landmine peril for Kashmiri farmers
KEERNI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – One day when he was young, Mohammad Deen was ploughing his field with a pair of oxen, in the mountain village of Keerni in Poonch district, which sits...
Landmines maim and kill Colombia's children, rural communities
Author: Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Earlier this month, teenager Juan David Perez and his grandmother were walking in the countryside in northern Colombia when the...
Landmines kill 10 in northern Yemen battle zone
SANAA, March 23 (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed by landmine explosions on Friday in a part of northern Yemen where Shi'ite Muslim fighters and tribal militiamen have fought running battles...
Rats help Colombia sniff out deadly landmines
Security forces train rodents to find landmines Hundreds of Colombians injured or killed each year (Updates with additional details) By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - In a laboratory on...
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S.Koreans on landmine alert after deadly mudslides
28 Jul 2011 09:28 Source: Reuters // Reuters About 10 landmines have not been recovered Damage from storms seen at hundreds of millions of dollars North Korea also hit by storms (Adds president,...
Angolan landmines kill 166 people in four years
Millions of landmines still scattered across the nation * Angola is carrying out extensive de-mining programme LUANDA, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Landmines left behind by Angola's three-decade long civil war...
Colombian rebels planting landmines in Panama- govt
03 Jul 2010 03:57:11 GMT PANAMA CITY, July 2 (Reuters) - Colombian drug-running rebels are planting landmines in neighboring Panama along cocaine smuggling routes between the two countries shared...
Iraqi Kurd digs up landmines after losing legs
* Retired Kurdish soldier lost limbs to landmines * Now uses basic tools to remove mines * Landmines threat to rebuilding of Iraqi economy * Individuals hamper work of organisations to clear fields ...
Philippine rebels agree to remove landmines in south
MANILA, April 23 (Reuters) - The Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group will work parallel to the government to clear landmines and unexploded bombs left by decades of conflict on troubled Mindanao...