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The land mine is one of the most destructive and indiscriminate weapons of war ever devised. The history of this insidious ...

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Former Taliban fighters are tracking down their own bombs and helping to remove them from Afghanistan’s roadsides. Ex-Taliban ...

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At these mines, hundreds of Korean laborers were mobilized during World War II. Japanese officials paid tribute to “all workers” at the mines Sunday, but didn't acknowledge or apologize for ...

“With this bill signed into law, Utahns can bypass bureaucratic hurdles and senseless lawsuits to clean up abandoned mines ...

and was able to supply over 90% of the antimony - crucial to the production of tungsten steel - required by the US military during World War II. Output from the mine went into a gradual decline ...

The island, littered with land mines from the country's 26-year civil war, is her team's daily battleground. Chandradevi leads a demining crew working to make the land safe once more.

Old mines pose myriad dangers, with 381 people killed and 152 injured at abandoned mine sites nationwide between 2000 and ...