Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Lithuania and Finland appeared set to start domestic production of anti-personnel landmines next year to supply themselves ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HELSINKI, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Finland's military will initiate the acquisition of anti-personnel landmines and start training staff ...

Anti-personnel mines are widely reviled, especially in the humanitarian community, but there are certain places in which they could be used to prevent war in the first place. The eastern edge of ...

Poland plans to withdraw from the international treaty banning the use of anti-personnel mines, joining five other countries on Europe’s eastern flank including Ukraine, which argue that Russia’s ...

A deminer of the Ukrainian national police inspects mines that were found in a field in Izyum district, Kharkiv region, on Oct. 24, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Sergey Bobok/AFP via ...

US President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday lifted US restrictions on landmines, saying new technology made them safer, outraging campaigners for the abolition of the explosives that maim ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree withdrawing his country from an international agreement banning the use of anti-personnel mines on Monday. The 1997 Ottawa Convention bans the ...

We write to request information regarding reported US military use of air-dropped landmine systems in Iran and to seek clarification of current US policy governing the use of such landmines. Human ...

Finland’s military will initiate the acquisition of anti-personnel land mines and start training staff, conscripts and reservists to use them later this year, it said Wednesday, after the country’s ...

HELSINKI, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Finland's military will initiate the acquisition of anti-personnel landmines and start training staff, conscripts and reservists to use them later this year, it said on ...