Land mines

The UN chief and pope call for nations to end the use of antipersonnel land mines

The U.N. chief, Pope Francis and others are calling for nations to end the production and use of land mines, even as their deployment grows. They made the appeal Monday at a conference on the 25-year-old Mine Ban Treaty that opened in Cambodia.

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An old land mine found by children near an Afghanistan village explodes, killing 9

Land mines explode along Lebanon-Syria border wounding 3 Syrians trying to illegally enter Lebanon

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U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the Biden administration will allow Ukraine to use American-supplied antipersonnel land mines to help slow Russia’s battlefield progress in the war.

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