Landmines affect a third of the world's countries but only 0.2% of overseas aid is spent on clearing them, according to Landmine Free 2025, an initiative to reenergize support to landmine clearance.
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Donors and affected states contributed some $471 million for landmine clearing in 2015, a 23 percent decrease from the previous year and the lowest level since 2005, according to the Landmine Monitor.
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Several landmine explosions were reported near the area this year.
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He has turned this issue into a polarized political landmine.
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But when the rats searched the area, they found another landmine.
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What's not to love about a beautiful, doomed, landmine-clearing princess?
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The blast occurred when children stepped accidentally walked over a landmine.
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Bosnia is one of the most landmine-contaminated countries in Europe.
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A decade ago, Mosha wandered into landmine territory between Myanmar and Thailand.
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The former vice president and his wife missed a potential tax landmine.
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He is an injection into the landmine movement that is so important.
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Just like Di, Harry's goal is a landmine-free world by 2025.
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"In some states and areas, numerous casualties go unrecorded," Landmine Monitor said.
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I don't have PTSD, but Facebook this week has been a landmine.
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"There isn't enough money available for landmine clearance in general, so it makes it very difficult to deal with new landmine emergencies like the ones in Iraq and Syria," Cowan told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Angola.
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There's an area next to a school where a landmine once went off.
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Colombians now find themselves torn and the issue has become a political landmine.
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Fitzpatrick had stepped on an ethical landmine that she didn't realize was there.
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Harding was just 23 when he was killed after stepping on a landmine.
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"Perhaps we can meet again when the world is landmine-free," Harry said.
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The Landmine and Cluster Munitions Monitor identifies 57 countries as threatened by mines.
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He lost both his legs to a landmine in southern Afghanistan in 2010.
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While there, the Duke of Sussex was introduced to landmine victim Sandra Thijika.
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Why it matters: There were more than 6,000 landmine-related casualties recorded in 2015.
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They searched for 18 landmine targets and only failed to detect four of them.
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Kelly's son Robert died when he stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan in 2010.
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In 2010, his son died in combat in Afghanistan after stepping on a landmine.
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Around 60 people were in the vehicle when it hit the landmine on Sept.
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Rats in the landmine stream then learn to associate the scent of TNT with reward.
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Six Malian soldiers were killed nearby a day earlier when their vehicle struck a landmine.
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The army did not say who they believed to be responsible for planting the landmine.
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No group immediately claimed responsibility for the landmine blast and the explosion inside the mosque.
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Almost as soon as he crosses into town, he steps on a landmine and dies.
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Done incorrectly, that lifeline can trigger a tax landmine and destroy the insurance policy altogether.
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Earlier this month, three schoolboys were blown up by a landmine not far from Artyom's post.
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Four years later, a landmine blast tore through his legs during fighting in the country's east.
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A humanitarian official in the city of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, confirmed hearing reports of landmine injuries.
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For that to happen, lawmakers will have to avoid a landmine of amendments on the bill.
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Mine happened when I almost stepped on a landmine in Vietnam while working for National Geographic.
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The Landmine Monitor report said the most active producers were India, Myanmar, Pakistan and South Korea.
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The former landmine field is now a vibrant community, with several colleges, schools and small businesses.
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The former landmine field is now a vibrant community, with several colleges, schools, and small businesses.
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On Thursday, a landmine blew up a civilian passenger vehicle, again in the country's center, killing 26.
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Princess Diana visited and famously walked through an active landmine area in Angola during a 1997 visit.
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Every time you're thinking, I'm going to be shot, or, I'm going to step on a landmine.
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Several young boys from Sana'a were wounded after playing with what turned out to be a landmine.
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In western Ghor province, a landmine explosion killed seven children and wounded one on Saturday, officials said.
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Their bodies had been blown apart by a landmine they found walking home from school on Wednesday.
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Those individuals died either from "regular sniping or landmine explosions while trying to escape," or from starvation.
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His legs were both partially blown off when he stepped on a landmine trying to escape Myanmar.
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The images of her in body armour and a mask gave the anti-landmine campaign global recognition.
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"The high number of casualties is horrific," the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor's editor Jeff Abramson said.
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The cable reportedly says that under the new policy, landmine usage will be permitted around the world.
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Landmines, according to the Landmine Monitor, have killed around 130,000 people, mostly civilians, between 1998 and 2018.
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The exercise involves amphibious assault, evacuation, humanitarian assistance, landmine destruction, and jungle survival training, among other activities.
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He said they also have resorted in the past with other actions, including demilitarized zone landmine provocations.
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Those victims were traveling from neighboring Burkina Faso in a civilian passenger vehicle when it struck a landmine.
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According to the Russian military, he was wounded in Syria's Hama province by a landmine on Sept 22.
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Most of South Sudan's approximately 60,000 amputees have suffered war-related injuries, be it gunshot or landmine wounds.
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Washington (CNN)Donald Trump stepped on a landmine with his recent comments about sexual assault in the military.
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By neglecting the U.S.'s role in shaping the world, the NIC tries to avoid a political landmine.
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In Balkh province in the north, two children were killed in a landmine explosion on Sunday, officials said.
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Callimachi: They blamed the grandfather for having planted a landmine that took the lives of several U.S. Marines.
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Landmine Monitor 2016 was released in advance of the 15th meeting of countries that have signed the treaty.
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He showed her a letter from a little boy named Kenan who lost three limbs to a landmine.
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Watch more Quick Hits at VICE News Read "Pawns in Syria's Ceasefire, Three Boys Die in Landmine Explosion"
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The draw, however, did not do Halep any favours with the 44th-ranked Kanepi always looking a potential landmine.
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One of Princess Diana's great legacies is the Landmine Ban Treaty and the role for victims within that treaty.
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Now, benchmarks have been set for any such negotiations going forward -- yet another potential landmine for Trump's business agenda.
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In 2010 Kelly's 29-year-old son Marine 1st Lt. Robert Kelly was killed by a landmine in Afghanistan.
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That is the landmine where corruption could potentially be demonstrated: Was there a quid pro quo for endorsements received?
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And what's a kid to do once she has, inevitably, stomped down full-force on a reputation-exploding landmine?
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The couple also plan to travel to Angola, where Princess Diana visited and famously walked through an active landmine area.
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This program played a big role in the country's ability to declare, in September 22015, that it was landmine-free.
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International donors, including the United States and Norway, have so far contributed nearly $112 million for landmine clearance in Colombia.
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A U.N. report said at least 681 civilians died in the province in suicide attacks, landmine blasts and air strikes.
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But the landmine program, which operates from a base on the campus of Sokoine University of Agriculture, has become hugely successful.
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The agreement also took down almost two dozen guard posts, created a no-fly zone and began a landmine removal process.
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"Infidelity comes up in our lives like a landmine," says Michael Guichet, LMFT, a licensed psychotherapist who specializes in sex therapy.
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The landmine outfit is part of an addition of seven outfits that will be rotated into the exhibition on April 26.
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It is not that hard to decide if a landmine fits the criteria that ban such weapons under the Ottawa treaty.
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Williamson stepped on a landmine Wednesday over whether vaccines should be mandated in the face of a growing nationwide measles epidemic.
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On Saturday, two children were killed in a nearby village when they stepped on a landmine while playing in the fields.
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They said the blast, in the Turkish district of Karkamis, was caused by either a landmine or an improvised explosive device.
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The special courts will mete out alternative sentences like landmine removal for ex-guerrilla leaders who are convicted of war crimes.
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In another, the U.S. Army admitted that bodies originally donated to a university for educational purposes were used in landmine experiments.
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The annual Landmine Monitor report recorded 103,605 casualties in 2016, the second highest figure since 1999 when it began gathering data.
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A pro-government militia GATIA said on Wednesday that one of its vehicles hit a landmine, killing five of its fighters.
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Algeria and Mozambique, which were once heavily mined, declared themselves free of land mines this past year, the Landmine Monitor said.
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But it seems pretty clear that if a Democrat defeats Trump in November, his landmine policy is as good as dead.
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Harry then heads to Angola, visiting the landmine clearance project which Princess Diana also visited during her campaign to ban landmines.
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Some described landmine blasts and shells falling in Muslim villages, as well as intimidation from combatants on both sides of the conflict.
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Late last month, a landmine explosion in Mopti region killed 26 people and wounded several others, many of them from Burkina Faso.
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U.S.-based PHR investigates mass atrocities globally and shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for its work medically documenting landmine injuries.
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Aung Gyi, 56, who also lost both of his legs to a landmine in 0003 battling communists, lives a drastically different life.
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In 2015, two South Korean soldiers were maimed by what Seoul said was a North Korean landmine, an accusation the North denied.
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Other young Australians, such as Reece Harding, killed by a landmine when he joined a Kurdish resistance group, never made it back.
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On track to claim about 2628 in 28503 of all American dollars in 22019, the health sector is a complex political landmine.
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The first statement came from Warren, who on Saturday responded to my story on Twitter announcing her position on the landmine issue.
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He said the landmine was laid by fighters from the Arakan Army, an insurgent group that recruits mostly from Rakhine's Buddhist majority.
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Landmines killed or injured some 6,897 people in 2018, according to the Landmine Monitor report by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
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Prince Harry showed he's got his late mother's moxie -- walking through a landmine field just like she did some 22 years ago.
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It was unclear whether the blast was a landmine or a roadside bomb planted by Islamist militants, said local government official Akbar Iftikhar.
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It took ten years for her landmine-inflicted wound to heal, but since then she, too, has received various versions of her prosthesis.
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She brought massive media attention to homeless people, leprosy patients and landmine survivors, instead of spending time cutting ribbons at cozy village fêtes.
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What's happening: Some clearance efforts are underway, supported by the Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance and the UN–backed Yemen Mine Action Center.
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Depending on your perspective, finding an old-ass stash of drugs can be like digging up forgotten treasure, or stepping on a landmine.
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Your son, Marine Lt. Robert Kelly, 29, gave his in service, killed after stepping on a landmine while leading a platoon in Afghanistan.
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Elsewhere in central Mali, 12 civilians including a baby were killed on Sunday when the vehicle they were traveling in hit a landmine.
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To graduate as a landmine-sniffer, a rat has to find 100 per cent of landmines in a test field in a single sweep.
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"My dad was a tough guy — a former cop, former boxer, full-time landmine," Reynolds, 41, told Mr. Porter in an interview released Wednesday.
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He and his colleague and friend Jerry White of the Landmine Survivors Network were alongside the late princess as she focused on the victims.
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Romero, a former army soldier, lost a leg and his vision in one eye when he walked over a landmine planted by FARC guerillas.
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Among those who returned was Libardo Garcia, who lost two brothers in the conflict - one was shot and the other killed by a landmine.
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It's like tiptoeing through minefields where even if you step on a landmine, they don't all kill you, some just pelt you with candy.
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She sneaked across the border at night, dreading that she would step on a landmine planted by Chile in the desert in the 286s.
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"Trump's landmine policy reversal is barbaric, weakens America's moral leadership, and is quite simply a giveaway to the military industrial complex," the statement reads.
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"Trump's cruel and reckless decision to reverse the landmine policy is further proof that he's unfit to serve as commander-in-chief," Gerdes said.
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As president, Tom will immediately reinstate the Obama administration's policy of banning landmine production and will work toward lasting peace in the Korean Peninsula.
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Still, if Gowdy were to become the next chairman, he'd be tasked with the potential political landmine of leading oversight of a Republican administration.
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"The scale of the problem is exceptionally large, and the impact is horrendous," said Loren Persi Vicentic of Landmine Monitor, an independent nonprofit group.
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The Landmine Monitor said that 32 donors, led by the United States, contributed nearly $480 million in 2016 for mine clearance and victim aid.
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Since 8503, the Army has spent $2850 million on this initiative, called the Gator Landmine Replacement Program, yet it is still in its early stages.
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His message comes just months after he visited the area of Angola where Diana famously walked through an active landmine field, now an active community.
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Over two decades later, Prince Harry honors his late mother by walking those same minefields with the former landmine victims, honoring Diana's instrumental humanitarian work.
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Gil was 14 when he heard the screams of his father who stepped on a landmine while tending his cassava crops one day in 2005.
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In 2002, I remember navigating past the checkpoints of rival Kurdish militias in northern Iraq, gazing at hillsides sprouting those frightening little landmine warning signs.
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Harry then heads to Angola, visiting the landmine clearance project that featured in some of the most famous photographs of his late mother, Princess Diana.
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She walked through the exact same minefield back then to bring awareness to the landmine crisis around the globe while calling for an international ban.
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As they reached the southern edge of town, someone tripped over a landmine, and the loud blast alerted a nearby Hezbollah checkpoint of their escape.
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"If a child stepped on a landmine now, there would be no one to help, unless the vet agreed to operate," said the SAMS doctor.
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - A landmine explosion blew up a civilian passenger vehicle in central Mali on Thursday, killing 26 people and wounding several others, state TV reported.
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After Afghanistan, Colombia has the second highest number of landmine casualties, with more than 11,500 people killed or injured by landmines since 1990, government figures show.
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The sound of a pop from the thick North Korean woods can be heard some nights, as a deer or wild boar treads on a landmine.
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Amnesty said it had reviewed graphic images showing an elderly woman's shredded legs immediately after a blast, which medical experts agreed were consistent with a landmine.
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LAMPANG, Thailand (Reuters) - Mosha the elephant, who stepped on a landmine along the Thai-Myanmar border 10 years ago, received her ninth prosthetic leg on Wednesday.
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"This came as the result of the detonation of a landmine the mujahideen had planted for patrols of the French occupation," it said in the statement.
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He was there to check out the landmine clearing efforts of The HALO Trust ... a charity Princess Di brought a lot of attention to in 1997.
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The special courts will mete out alternative sentences like landmine removal for ex-guerrilla leaders who are convicted of war crimes committed during the five-decade war.
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And while the prince is sure to make a visit to these landmine areas, it is unknown if Meghan will accompany her husband due to security concerns.
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In Mandera, in the extreme northeast of Kenya, a governor's convoy was blown up by what the Kenyan Red Cross said appeared to have been a landmine.
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N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - A landmine planted by Islamist group Boko Haram killed four Chadian soldiers on patrol near Chad's border with Niger on Saturday, two security sources said.
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Another security official in the area told Reuters the truck they were travelling in had run over a landmine in Kiunga, a town close to the border.
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Instead, the heating and air-conditioning business owner fears the report could prove a political landmine for overzealous Democrats trying to take down a president they despise.
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The vehicle hit the landmine while carrying 60 passengers through an area where ethnic militias regularly kill civilians from rival groups and Islamist militants are also active.
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Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Angola and Afghanistan are among the most mined countries in the world, according to the Landmine Monitor, the most authoritative source on the issue.
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It'll get personal for Harry in Angola Midway through the tour, Harry will pay tribute to his mother, the late Princess Diana, and her anti-landmine legacy.
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Harry then heads to Angola, visiting the landmine clearance project that featured in iconic photographs of his late mother, Princess Diana, during her campaign to ban landmines.
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The men were traveling in convoy to provide reinforcement to a police post in the Gadchiroli district when a landmine detonated, killing all 16 men, including the driver.
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Ken Rutherford, who traveled to Bosnia with Princess Diana in August 1997 alongside his friend Jerry White for their Landmine Survivors Network, met with Harry at the reception.
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Three landmine blasts caused extensive damage to three military trucks in Rakhine's central Minbya township on Wednesday morning, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said.
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An army official based in Indian-controlled Kashmir said two Indian soldiers were wounded while returning from the raid - one stepped on a landmine and another was shot.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's recent moves on trade have turned an issue long considered part of the Republican orthodoxy into a political landmine for his own party.
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Army spokesman Belhassen Ouslati said the three soldiers had been killed in the landmine blast and that clashes were continuing after the ambush in the Mount Sammama area.
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Set against a tense, eerie silence in the landmine-riddled mountains separating South and North Korea, the Demilitarized Zone may be the highest-stakes negotiation site on earth.
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According to the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, which reports on compliance with the Ottawa Convention, 59 countries around the world still have land mines on their territory.
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The organization uses state-of-the-art geospatial mapping technology to track progress on landmine clearing in an effort to restore the livelihoods of those affected by war.
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Known casualties that year came to 19753,605, including 2,089 deaths, according to a new report by Landmine Monitor, a research arm of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
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Last month, suspected leftist insurgents killed at least 15 police and a civilian in a landmine attack on two security vehicles in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.
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But Morey turns out to have stepped onto a much bigger landmine — Chinese politics, just as the National Basketball Association grows more thirsty to get into the Chinese market.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Two U.N. peacekeepers were killed and several injured early on Friday when their convoy hit a landmine in Mali, the United Nations said in a brief statement.
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So far this year, nine soldiers and civilians involved in coca eradication have been killed with almost 50 injured, mostly mutilated by landmine explosions, according to Defense Ministry statistics.
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Government forces in Myanmar and Syria — neither of them treaty members — were the only ones known to have planted land mines during the past year, the Landmine Monitor said.
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So far this year, nine soldiers and civilians involved in coca eradication have been killed with almost 22006 injured, mostly mutilated by landmine explosions, according to Defense Ministry statistics.
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Even in my own reporting, Buttigieg's team failed to respond to pointed questions about US landmine policy and whether the US should have low-yield nuclear weapons on submarines.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Four Rohingya Muslim children were killed by a landmine explosion in Myanmar's western Rakhine state on Tuesday which the military and ethnic insurgents blamed on each other.
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With the self-destruct and self-deactivate features included, the Pentagon says the statistical chance of a US landmine being operational after 120 days is six in one million.
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The event was featured on the official Instagram for Duke and Duchess of Sussex with a quote from when the prince's mother visited the landmine site back in 1997.
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"We are witnessing a new landmine emergency on a scale not seen since the historic treaty to ban landmines was agreed 20 years ago," says Jane Cocking, MAG's chief executive.
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The last time South Korea deployed the loudspeakers, in retaliation for a landmine blast in August that wounded two South Korean soldiers, it led to an exchange of artillery fire.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A landmine explosion on Thursday during a joint training exercise on a military base in Cambodia killed two people, including an Australian, and injured three, police said.
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What did happen is that robots saved lives and improved the safety and productivity of each soldier by conducting tasks like landmine detection and mapping out radiation and chemical spills.
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But that's a potential political landmine, given allegations of Russian election interference that have produced unflattering media coverage of his chats with the Russian leader, which has infuriated the President.
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Separately, two workers of a prominent political party were killed on Friday in a landmine blast in the district of Harnai near Quetta as they traveled to a party meeting.
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Social media is a landmine for celebs When those tweets resurfaced on Thursday, there was an immediate opportunity for the "Night School" star to own it, apologize and move on.
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KABUL (Reuters) - At least 11 pilgrims including seven children were killed and on Monday when their vehicle set off a landmine in southern Afghanistan, local government and health officials said.
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The vehicle hit the landmine while carrying 60 passengers through the Douentza territory in Mopti, where ethnic militias regularly slaughter civilians from rival groups and Islamist militants are also active.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - A Mali-based al Qaeda affiliate said a landmine it planted that killed 14 civilians when it exploded under a passenger bus was intended to target French troops.
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Harry then traveled alone to Botswana and Angola, where he visited a landmine clearance project that featured in some of the most famous photographs of his late mother, Princess Diana.
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The Duke of Sussex met landmine victim Justina Cesar, who lost her right leg at 3 years old and was 15 when she crossed paths with Princess Diana in 1997.
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For folks who are dealing with daily anxiety and depression, the idea of going to a gym to pick up barbells might seem like a landmine of potentially triggering situations.
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In 3423, at a time when the local military academy was working on a landmine-detecting robot, he secured his first research grant, from the Belgian Development Cooperation, a government agency.
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"There is no other character in Marvel history that is such a cultural landmine, that is absolutely unwinnable," Cargill said during an appearance on the Double Toasted podcast (via Screen Rant).
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Travel decisions can potentially turn into a landmine that hurts your friendship, from disagreeing on where to eat breakfast to how much time it takes to get ready in the morning.
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The protests point to the landmine the government faces in trying to push spending cuts, even after Lebanon's key parties agreed the budget in a bid to stave off financial crisis.
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Related: Pawns in Syria's Ceasefire, Three Boys Die in Landmine Explosion Some observers and combatants argue that regional powers — potentially including Iran, Turkey, and Qatar — are attempting to sabotage the ceasefire.
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In 22018, the last year with available statistics, there were 21,257 known casualties from various types of old ordnance, as recorded by the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, a tracking organization.
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One arms-trade analyst and proponent of the cluster-munition ban, Jeff Abramson of the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, said the Pentagon should not field any new submunitions at all.
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Nationwide, about 32,000 acres of confirmed minefields need to be cleared, and 88,000 acres of suspected areas need to be verified as safe, according to the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor.
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The number of people reported killed or injured by landmines has risen sharply though, with 75 percent more casualties in 2015 compared to the previous year, according to the Landmine Monitor.
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More than 122,000 people have been killed or injured by land mines from 1999 through 2017, according to the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, with almost 3,000 people killed in 2017.
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ADEN (Reuters) - Six Yemeni soldiers were killed when a convoy carrying the country's defense minister was hit by a landmine explosion on Wednesday, but the minister was unharmed, government sources said.
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After Cambodia and Afghanistan, Colombia has the third highest number of landmine casualties, with 220,232 people, including civilians, children and soldiers killed or injured by landmines since 1990, government figures show.
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Obama's 2014 directive restricted landmine use to just the Korean Peninsula, "to reduce humanitarian harm," according to Rob Berschinski, who worked in the human rights office of Obama's National Security Council.
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The US has not procured new landmine systems since the early 2000s and the Pentagon plans to modernize as the current inventory ages and requires replacement in about ten years' time.
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When Princess Diana walked across a minefield in Huambo in central Angola 1997, she helped raise awareness for landmine victims and survivors — and bring about a treaty to ban the weapons.
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That path in itself is a potential landmine field, given the wide array of deductions and the various special interest groups and lobbyists who will be fighting to keep them in place.
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Later that day, another landmine exploded near the village of Vethali in central Rakhine as seven military trucks passed, injuring one pedestrian but causing no damage to the vehicles, the paper said.
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Over a million landmines were laid in border areas including the DMZ and the Civilian Control Zone in the South, said Jeong In-cheol, a landmine expert at National Park Conservation Network.
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Kim said in last year's speech he would be open to a summit with Seoul but tension surged in August after a landmine blast on their border wounded two South Korean soldiers.
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Like baking your own bread wasn't enough, we now have to landmine it with chocolate so that it comes out looking like a cross-section of Bagheera's cousin in The Jungle Book?
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Human Rights Watch, which shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for being part of an international anti-landmine campaign, works in 90 nations and has official offices in 24 of them.
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After delivering vote counting machines, a soldier was killed and another injured in an ambush involving a landmine and 30 armed communist rebels in the town of Gamay in northern Samar province.
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"The suffering is still continuing and civilians continue to be the predominant victims of cluster bombs," said Jeff Abramson, program manager at Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, which is part of the coalition.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Four Ukrainian civilians were killed when a minivan carrying them drove over a landmine as they waited to cross out of separatist-held territory in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, authorities said.
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Niinisto, who considers the ratification of the Ottawa convention to have been a mistake, also said that Finland could relinquish the landmine ban during a crisis where "all agreements have become meaningless papers".
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YELENOVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) - A minibus hit a landmine while crossing the border between Ukraine and the breakaway Donetsk region on Saturday, killing two civilians and injuring a third, local authorities and witnesses said.
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The report's author, the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, which provides research for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the Cluster Munition Coalition, did find signs of improvement in the United States.
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The number of people reported killed or injured by landmines rose by 13 percent in 2015 to nearly 6,500, largely due to conflicts in Libya, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen, according to the Landmine Monitor.
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He received training in use of small arms and "probably" anti-aircraft weapons, improvised explosive devices (IED), mortars and landmine at al Qaeda and Taliban camps and operated on the frontlines, the report said.
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At the time, the news outlet reports, Ha was leading an early morning patrol and was the first to venture through an entry gate that led to the area where the landmine was hidden.
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President Donald Trump is expected to rescind Obama's 0003 order in the coming days, delegating landmine policy to the secretary of defense, thereby bringing it in line with weapons policies other than nuclear weapons.
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It is still fighting in the Benghazi neighborhoods of Souq al-Hout and Sabri, where a military spokesman said one of his men was killed and one wounded by a landmine explosion on Tuesday.
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South Korean officials said stopping the broadcasts was the main reason the North agreed at that time to end an armed standoff and express regret over a landmine explosion that injured South Korean soldiers.
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The DMZ is also littered with landmines planted over the decades - as many as 970,000 in the southern part of the DMZ alone, according to Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, a Geneva-based civic group.
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His appearance in the briefing room on Thursday sought to lend credibility to the discussion over Gold Star families, given that Kelly's son Robert died when he stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan in 2010.
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In a rural part of the country, one woman had her weeks-old baby in the car with her when her husband ran over a landmine; the baby lived, but has a badly burned body.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry will make a poignant visit to Angola this month to visit the landmine clearance project that featured in some of the most famous photographs of his late mother Princess Diana.
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The state could be walking into a legal landmine — all in the name of extending health insurance to fewer people than the plan already approved by the state's voters, and at a higher initial cost.
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Though this number had fallen below 4,000 by 2014 it is, according to the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, an international research group, rising again as a consequence of conflicts in Libya, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen.
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MOMBASA (Reuters) - Three civilians were killed after their vehicle ran over a landmine on a road near Kenya's border with Somalia, a government official said, in the fifth such incident in the area in three months.
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While visiting Malawi, the royals plan to work on expanding the reach of Prince Harry's Sentebale charity, and they plan to travel to Angola, where Princess Diana visited and famously walked through an active landmine area.
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"I'm not a ladies man, I'm a landmine / Filming my own fake death" is the first line of the album, and it's a pretty good encapsulation of the emotional territory Wolf mines over Alopecia's 2000 minutes.
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The Brazilian forward, whose 222 million-euro ($259.72 million) signing from Barcelona this month doubled the world- record transit fee, mounted a huge statue of a chair outside the U.N. in Geneva that symbolizes landmine victims.
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But make no mistake, many of the other candidates are happy this is out there and even happier that Castro stepped on the landmine before they had to -- their post-debate interviews are proof of that.
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" In a speech he gave days after his son was killed after stepping on a landmine in Afghanistan in November 2010, Kelly noted that "we are in a life-and-death struggle, but not our whole country.
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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Two paramilitary police officers were killed and two others wounded in Burkina Faso when a convoy carrying fuel to the Inata gold mine hit a landmine, Avocet Mining Plc and the government said on Wednesday.
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He lost his other leg to a landmine while fighting against U.S.-backed Cambodian government forces in 1975, as the Khmer Rouge came to power: "I was too young to understand politics," the 67-year-old said.
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The new Department of Defense landmine policy will permit the operational use of landmines only if they have a 30-day self-destruction or self-deactivation feature, a design feature seen as helping to prevent civilian casualties.
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The last such reunions were held in October 2015 during the government of Moon's predecessor under a futile push for reconciliation following a sharp increase in tension over border incidents involving a landmine blast and artillery fire.
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Medic and safety officer Nguyen Thi Ha Lan supervises her teammates, the "landmine girls" as they are known, preparing to detonate a cluster bomb left behind from the war with the United States that ended in 22025.
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The United Nations swept the nation after the war and declared it free of ordnance in 2001, but data from the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor show more than 100 people have been injured by explosives since then.
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A South Korean soldier who lost his legs four years ago after stepping on a landmine has transformed his life into one of an athlete — and he is hoping to make his mark at the upcoming Paralympic Games.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Twenty years after Princess Diana's iconic visit to a minefield in Angola, the world faces a new landmine crisis in Syria and Iraq on a scale not seen for decades, campaigners said on Sunday.
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Five other children and their teacher were also wounded when the group stepped on the landmine as they went to collect firewood in the village of Kyauk Yan, military spokesman Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun said by phone.
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In a mostly uneventful interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, interviewer Josh Constine stepped on an awkward landmine when he asked Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel to comment on wife Miranda Kerr's beliefs about the toxicity of cellphone and WiFi radiation.
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Still, even in the course of singing about their struggles trying and failing to write a gorgeous and great feminist anthem, the cast realized they were being pretty feminist anyway with this "tough and tricky landmine of a song."
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Suspected leftist insurgents killed at least 15 police and a civilian driver in a landmine attack on two security vehicles on Wednesday in the western state of Maharashtra, police said, as the state celebrated its foundation day.
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I'm self-aware enough to know what kind of Green Beret landmine operation that would be, no matter how many emails I sent to my best friend with rings I liked, with paragraph descriptions of why I liked them.
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - Five civilians were killed and another 18 wounded in central Mali when their passenger vehicle struck a landmine, the local governor said on Saturday, two weeks after 26 travelers died in a similar incident in the area.
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MOMBASA, Kenya, June 27 (Reuters) - Four police officers and four civilians were killed on Tuesday after their truck hit a landmine on a road near Kenya's border with Somalia, police officials said, in the second such attack this month.
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And General John Kelly, the retired four-star Marine general who is now Trump's chief of staff, lost a son in Afghanistan, 2403-year-old Marine 1st Lt. Robert Kelly who was killed by a landmine there in 2010.
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YEREVAN (Reuters) - At least three people working for a landmine clearing charity were killed and two more wounded when an anti-tank mine hit their vehicle on Thursday in Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, the charity said on Thursday.
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Ha Jae-hun was only a 21-year-old staff sergeant when he stepped on a landmine while walking inside the DMZ, a piece of land along the Korean Peninsula that separates North and South Korea, according to Reuters.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine has launched an investigation into the death of an American working for the European security watchdog OSCE, whose vehicle hit a landmine in the country's conflict-hit east, the general prosecutor's office (GPU) said on Monday.
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Whether that tentative bargain - improvised in the middle of the night a week before German regional elections in which her party faces losses - will turn out to be a breakthrough or a landmine in the migrant crisis remains to be seen.
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Here are some facts about cluster munitions and efforts to end their use around the world: (Sources: Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, Convention on Cluster Munitions, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs) Reporting by Pietro Lombardi; Editing by Katie Nguyen.
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"With yesterday's ECB decision quickly fading from our rearview mirror, next Wednesday's FOMC meeting survives as the lone potential landmine that could give investors pause before boosting their risk," said Jeremy Klein, chief market strategist at FBN Securities, in a note.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A French soldier was killed in Mali by a landmine on Tuesday, underlining persistent insecurity in the region a month after Islamist militants attacked a luxury beach hotel in Ivory Coast, the French presidency said in a statement.
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Three Rohingya were killed by landmines on Saturday as they tried to cross from Myanmar, a Bangladeshi border guard said, and Amnesty International said there were two landmine incidents on Sunday, including a blast that blew off a man's leg.
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But 2450-year-old vigilante Dala Aisami Angwalla is undaunted by two nearly fatal brushes in the last year with Boko Haram, one involving a landmine, the other an ambush, and is determined to rid northeast Nigeria of the jihadists.
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The royal also met with another landmine victim — Justina Cesar, who lost her leg at 3-years-old — as well as a number of young patients that he spent time with and watched as they received treatment from the center.
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The charity said funding for landmine removal had dropped from $48.1 million in 2006 to a record low of $3.1 million in 2017, with the majority of donations coming from the US. However, two things turned it around, the organization said.
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It came on the heels of attacks on Sunday that resulted in five dead peacekeepers near Mopti and a May 19 incident when five Chadian soldiers hit a landmine and then died under fire from another Islamist militant group, Ansar Dine.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - The number of people killed or wounded by landmines in Colombia more than tripled in 2018 to 180, a landmine monitoring group said on Wednesday, as militants occupying territory abandoned by demobilized leftist rebels have expanded their use of the weaponry.
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The worst case Odhiambo has seen is an 18-year-old boy, who was brought to the clinic with both legs blown off by a landmine, pieces of muscle hanging out of the wound and shrapnel fragments stuck deep in his flesh.
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"I think any arrangement that does not take into account the urgency of a particular medical case is not going to help people who are in need, whether it be childbirth, a landmine victim or someone shot and bleeding to death," said Qureshi.
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Government funding for Trump's wall and agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has become a landmine in spending bill negotiations, with talks late last year leading to a 22019-day partial closure that marked the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Sen.
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Government funding for Trump's wall and agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has become a landmine in spending bill negotiations, with talks late last year leading to a 85033-day partial closure that marked the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Sen.
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She launched into a four-minute response about the fallout from the Vietnam War, humanitarian efforts in the region, the status of the anti-landmine Ottawa Treaty and the United States military's involvement in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
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And in 85033, amid heightened tensions following the DMZ landmine attack, North Korea sortied approximately 70 percent of its submarines, or about 55 subs, from their pens in a show of force as inter-Korean negotiations were ongoing to resolve the crisis.
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Kevin & Randall In the storyline that best picks up where last week left off, Kevin (Justin Hartley) and Zoe (Melanie Liburd) set off to meet Mr. Robinson (Charles Robinson), Jack's friend who was sent home from Vietnam after losing his foot to a landmine.
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Read more: The best photos of Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and baby Archie on their first royal tour as a familyAs Meghan and their son Archie stayed in South Africa, Harry visited Malawi, Botswana, and Angola, where he highlighted his mother's anti-landmine work.
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In Cambodia, there are still almost 9,000 landmine survivors in need of artificial limbs, although these days traffic accidents are a more likely cause of disability, while children also need braces for a range of common conditions such as spina bifida, cerebral palsy, and polio.
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"A few intense conflicts, where utter disregard for civilian safety persists, have resulted in very high numbers of mine casualties for the second year in a row," Loren Persi, an editor of the Landmine Monitor, the group's annual report, said in announcing the findings.
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More than $500,000 went to their childrens' private schools, $210,000 went to the US Naval Academy Foundation in both 2001 and 2002, and large amounts have been donated to various medical causes with a focus on craniofacial research and the HALO Trust, a landmine-clearing organization.
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After a firefight where Jack loses his close friend — not to death, but the friend loses his foot to a landmine and is sent home — Jack is sent to a remote, peaceful village where he and his platoon are tasked with protecting the civilians from the Viet Cong.
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Another potential landmine for Killing Eve is the way it has paired murder and homosexuality on-screen, an age-old, often problematic theme evoked in movies like Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley (both adapted from Patricia Highsmith novels), and the 1980 Al Pacino film Cruising.
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This video of Upton and Bruno talking through the proper form of a landmine deadlift, for example, is super-informative: And there's one more thing that we just have to talk about: Upton eats donuts while she works out, because she believes in balance — and that is awesome.
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Patrick LeahyPatrick Joseph LeahyWhat the impeachment vote looked like from inside the chamber Pavlich: The Senate defends its integrity Democratic senators ask banks to prohibit funding Arctic drilling MORE (D-Vt.) complained that no member of Congress had been consulted on the new landmine policy ahead of its unveiling.
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In 22002, the Army set up an office called Gator Landmine Replacement Program to oversee the development of a new class of mines, called area-denial munitions, which are intended to be placed on top of the ground and detonated manually by a person from a remote location.
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With funding for landmine clearing also slashed by 90% over the past decade, NGOs like Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are in a race against time to prevent another child from stumbling upon what they think is a toy, and being killed or losing limbs like the children in Duley's images.
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Jerry White, who traveled with Diana on one of her groundbreaking anti-landmine missions, and Tessy Ojo, CEO of the Diana Award, underline how her legacy continues to this day, while Jess Cagle, Editor-in-Chief of PEOPLE, and ABC's Elizabeth Vargas talk about the woman who was so loved around the world.
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Strangers with various motives are watching all of these videos for various reasons and that's not OK. Even if one child enjoys one nursery rhyme, there is so much content that is both ridiculous and dangerous lurking under the surface of the service that you're almost guaranteed to step on a content landmine.
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The speech opened a new chapter of Warren leaning into her heritage -- a move that could help her defuse a political landmine ahead of a potential 2020 presidential run by building goodwill with Native American leaders who could validate her claims and vouch for her advocacy on issues important to their communities.
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Jerry White, who traveled with Diana on one of her groundbreaking anti-landmine missions, and Tessy Ojo, CEO of the Diana Award, will underline how her legacy continues to this day, while Jess Cagle, Editor-in-Chief of PEOPLE, and ABC's Elizabeth Vargas will talk about the woman who was so loved around the world.
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"The decade-high number of new casualties caused by land mines and unexploded ordnance, and the continued suffering of civilians, more than a third of whom were children, proves again that these indiscriminate weapons should never be used by anyone," said Loren Persi Vicentic, one of the editors of the annual report, Landmine Monitor 2016.
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With all the crisp high resolution photos, aesthetically pleasing web design, and one-click checkout options that store your credit card information so you can make questionable purchases late at night without even having to get out your wallet, it's easy to forget that online shopping was once just a landmine of broken links and Comic Sans.
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But one day, when he caught sight of Mosha, a tame two and a half-year-old Asian elephant who'd lost her right foreleg from a landmine explosion at the Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation, he decided to take on his biggest challenge yet: He would make Mosha a fake leg so she could regain her mobility.
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In a scene from their 2017 documentary for ITV and HBO, Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, Harry revealed that they hadn't seen their mother for several weeks while speaking with two landmine victims, Zarko Peric and Malic Bradaric, who Diana met when she went on her last mission to Bosnia to raise awareness about the brutality of landmines.
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Republicans are scrambling to avoid stepping on the political landmine of proposed cuts to Medicare and other popular safety-net programs after President TrumpDonald John TrumpBiden assures supporters the primary is still 'wide open' in lengthy phone call: report Warren: We are watching a descent into authoritarianism Collins: Trump 'angered by impeachment' MORE in a recent interview said they could one day be on the chopping block.
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