Even today, more than 2,000 tonnes of unexploded munitions are dug up annually and all construction sites need to be certified as cleared of unexploded ordnance (UXO).
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US funding for clearance of unexploded ordnance and victims' assistance has steadily grown since 2010, when Congress mandated that the US government give at least $5 million for unexploded ordnance removal.
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The US says that object is likely an unexploded mine.
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These included concerns about unexploded bombs left by Islamic State.
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Since 2000, eleven bomb techs have died diffusing unexploded ordinance.
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An unexploded, seemingly homemade bomb was found nearby hours later.
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They move cautiously to avoid unexploded suicide belts and bombs.
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Cambodia ranks among the world's nations most littered with unexploded ordnance, says the Mines Advisory Group, which helps find and destroy unexploded devices that kill and injure an average of two Cambodians each week.
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KARL-ERBO KAGENECKMunich * The Economist highlights the continuing challenge that unexploded ordnance (UXO) and landmines pose around the world and the difficulty of clearing these hazards safely ("How unexploded ordnance is cleared", July 25th).
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Hours after that blast, an unexploded device was found blocks away.
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Much of the ground there is still contaminated by unexploded ordnance.
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There are even unexploded bombs that still threaten their daily lives.
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And booby traps and unexploded ordnance could take years to clear.
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Another unexploded bomb was found at another FedEx facility near Austin.
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In the Balkans, including Serbia, 150,000 unexploded pieces of ordnance remain.
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The fields to either side are littered with landmines and unexploded ordinances.
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The unexploded cluster bombs have injured or killed more than 20,000 people.
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That's why I've dramatically increased or funding to remove these unexploded bombs.
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Vaishnava denied the soldiers had forced a civilian to bury unexploded ordnance.
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The amount of unexploded ordnance in Laos hinders development and poverty reduction.
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The unexploded bomb found on West 27th Street, however, held critical clues.
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Clinton about unexploded bombs in Laos, left over from the Vietnam War.
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A second bomb, built from a pressure cooker, was found unexploded nearby.
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The plan is to clear the province of unexploded ordnance by 2025.
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A sixth unexploded bomb was found at a FedEx facility in the city.
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Police said they recovered an unexploded suicide vest from one of the attackers.
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There are tropical diseases, landmines—unexploded-ordnance officers are deployed too—and accidents.
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Thousands more accidental deaths would follow from unexploded bombs left in the soil.
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A similar unexploded device was found a few blocks away later that night.
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The shutting out of "millennials" from work is an unexploded mine in Europe.
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Officials previously said they found an unexploded pipe bomb near Colombo's international airport.
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A lighter, firecracker fragments and three unexploded firecrackers were found at the scene.
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A team of surveyors is also looking at unexploded ordnance, Mr. Lanzer said.
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Sadly, Afghanistan isn't the only country to harvest dangerous crops of unexploded munitions.
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It further requires states to clear unexploded weapons and provide assistance to victims.
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We demand that Islamabad cleanse Waziristan of land mines and other unexploded ordinances.
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The unexploded device was rigged with up to 2.2 pounds of explosives, Interfax added.
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Learn about the effects of unexploded bombs and what's being done to remove them.
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Colonel Brawner says just clearing unexploded bombs and hidden devices will take until August.
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A sixth unexploded device was found at a FedEx facility in Austin on Tuesday.
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Sea mines, unexploded torpedoes fired by submarines and surplus jettisoned bombs are particularly tricky.
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Laos is littered with unexploded American bombs that were dropped during the Vietnam war.
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Also Tuesday, an unexploded package bomb was discovered at another FedEx facility near Austin.
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I almost stepped on an unexploded Turkish gas bomb surrounded by yellow spring flowers.
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In total, at least 18 incidents involving unexploded cluster munitions occurred during Desert Storm.
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There are still unexploded land mines left over from bombing during the Vietnam War.
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Authorities later found unexploded devices and a van full of explosives in various locations.
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Despite the risk of unexploded bombs and booby-traps, 60,000 people have gone back.
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Two of Baghdadi's wives were killed during the operation and their suicide vests remained unexploded.
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Two of Baghdadi's wives were killed during the operation and their suicide vests remained unexploded.
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The Pakistan military said they had cleared a number of unexploded devices from the area.
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Two other unexploded bombs were found nearby and no one was wounded in the blast.
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Two other unexploded bombs were found nearby, and no one was wounded in the blast.
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No one is wounded in the blast, and two other unexploded bombs are found nearby.
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Police also found another five unexploded bombs and two pistols in the area, Charliyan said.
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Why it matters: Moumtzis said these unexploded devices are causing 50-70 casualties a week.
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Rhodes just was bothered by seeing legless kids and unexploded cluster bombs in the jungle.
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Today, the jungle has returned, swallowing the scars of war and America's unexploded ordnance (UXO).
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FISHERMAN HOOKS UNEXPLODED VIETNAM WAR DEVICE IN MASSACHUSETTS POND On May 16 at around 10 p.m.
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A man fishing in Factory Pond in Hanover, Massachusetts last week, accidentally hooked an unexploded device.
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HALO says the land contains around 2,600 mines and an unknown number of other unexploded ordnance.
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An unexploded belt — khaki green, bloodied, and apparently abandoned — lay on a nearby market stall table.
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No one at Facebook, however, knew exactly when or where the unexploded ordnance would go off.
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Swept hundreds of miles along in the waters would be unexploded ordnance, chemicals, bodies and buildings.
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While the unexploded shell initially tested positive for a mustard agent, a second test was negative.
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Even with some less familiar, less obviously charged plays, the translation process uncovered some unexploded mines.
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Last year, at least 1,415 Afghan civilians were killed or injured by landmines and unexploded munitions.
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Why were two apparently unexploded bombs sticking out of a lava tube on Hawaii's Mauna Loa?
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Another bomb, this one unexploded, was found at another FedEx facility in Austin the same day.
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He joined the Marines in World War II and disarmed unexploded bombs in the South Pacific.
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It is the second unexploded device to be unearthed in the Chinese territory in a week.
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The official said the imagery shows a person on board that small boat grabbing the unexploded mine.
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"Agent Orange, unexploded ordnance, the war crimes committed — all of this had to be addressed," Leaf said.
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Belgian police said that a kalashnikov and an unexploded suicide belt was later found at the airport.
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Task force commander, Eduardo del Rosario, said delays were caused by debris, unexploded ordnance and unsafe structures.
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People are also being wounded by unexploded ordnance hidden under the rubble of their homes, ICRC said.
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It said it was basing its information on a study of soil samples, unexploded shells, and shrapnel.
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In 2010 Congress mandated that the U.S. government give at least $5 million for unexploded ordnance removal.
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Hours after the blast, an unexploded bomb was found blocks away, raising the possibility of future violence.
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Since the Vietnam war ended in 1975, unexploded bombs in South-East Asia have claimed 40,000 lives.
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To kill time, Titch and Etherington would walk the dunes looking for unexploded shells from the war.
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At least three more people were killed later after handling unexploded cluster munitions left from the strike.
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The parts were later found in unexploded improvised explosive devices (IED) in Iraq by U.S. coalition forces.
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Here's (basically) everything you can and can't pack Sorry, please leave that unexploded Claymore mine at home.
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State troopers found another unexploded device just a few blocks away, made of the same deadly materials.
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They are also scared to search their ruined homes because of the unexploded ordnance in the wreckage.
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Unexploded bombs, apparently not designed for suicide attacks, were found in other public places in Sri Lanka.
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Unexploded devices from that era, including grenades, are removed every year from backyards, fields and construction sites.
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A second suspected unexploded bomb, a pressure cooker with wires and a cell phone, was found blocks away.
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Last year, a construction worker died after his vehicle hit an unexploded bomb in Euskirchen, the BBC reports.
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The U.S. military says they removed an unexploded limpet mine, which can be magnetically attached to a vessel.
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An unexploded pressure cooker was found four blocks from the site of the New York bombing in Chelsea.
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There is still a substantial number of unexploded mines across the conflict zone, despite efforts to clear them.
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At one point he attempts to shoot a highly pressurized but unexploded soda bottle with a bb gun.
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However, an unexploded bomb was found concealed in a package at a separate FedEx facility in Southeast Austin.
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Another unexploded device was recovered on 27th St., which houses the next stop on the same Uptown line.
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Like the rest of Iraq, Mosul suffers from mines and unexploded bombs left behind from decades of war.
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Every year, 2,000 tons of unexploded munitions are unearthed on German soil, most of it from Allied bombing.
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Investigators recovered 12 fingerprints from the unexploded bomb on 27th Street, which F.B.I. agents matched to Mr. Rahami.
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After an unexploded missile pierces the building, suspended above like a harbinger of death, those fissures become maws.
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The police found at least one other unexploded bomb in a search of a Brussels house hours later.
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This has long been a feature of makeshift bombs, including the unexploded devices recovered in Belgium this week.
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Mr. Rahimi was identified by his fingerprints and DNA on the unexploded devices and debris from the bombs.
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It was the first time law enforcement had gotten its hands on one of the bomber's unexploded devices.
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At the moment, removal experts can get the six-digit coordinates of unexploded ordnance from American military officials.
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Work to search and clear mines and unexploded ordnance was still underway, the army said in a statement.
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Opponents from around the world called the Chukchi prospect an "unexploded carbon bomb," better left in the ground.
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Leng Channak enters the Tonlé Sap river at the location of a French barge thought to contain unexploded ordnance.
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Such finds are not unusual, but rarely are the unexploded bombs so large and in such a sensitive position.
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The main battle area in downtown Marawi remains off limits, pending the removal of booby traps and unexploded ordnance.
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Russia had already helped to clear unexploded ordnance left behind by NATO's bombing during the Kosovo war of 1999.
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Obama worked to reconcile that past this week by announcing $90 million in new aide for clearing unexploded bombs.
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Last year, the U.S. pumped $225 million into recovery efforts in the area, including funds for defusing unexploded bombs.
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An unexploded pressure cooker was packed with similar components, including a cell phone that would act as a timer.
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We were confined to a headland bounded by fragile endangered species, and more threateningly, by rattlesnakes and unexploded ordnance.
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They also discovered several unexploded munitions, some of them high-grade explosives, at the scene, the police spokesman said.
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Police also recovered an unexploded suicide vest from one of the attackers, spokesman George Kinoti said in a statement.
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Hours after the blast went off in the neighborhood of Chelsea, an unexploded device was discovered just blocks away.
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This year, Congress allotted $19.5 million for unexploded ordnance clearance in Laos, thanks in large part to Vermont Sen.
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"Some of the biggest victims of unexploded ordnance are children, because [the explosives] often look like toys," Yar says.
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He yanks his four-year-old son away from a hole in the ground which contains an unexploded shell.
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Roughly 20 percent fail to properly detonate upon impact, leaving unexploded bomblets that can kill civilians even years later.
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On Tuesday morning, a sixth bomb, this one unexploded, forced the shutdown of a FedEx facility near Austin's airport.
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At least 133 civilians have been killed, along with the two de-miners, by the unexploded ordnance left behind.
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People have to know where they can find unexploded bombs, how to recognize them and how to remove them.
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Roughly one-fifth of Vietnam is estimated to contain the mines or other unexploded ordnance, such as cluster bombs.
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Don't worry, I have six more unexploded cakes where that came from for you and me to enjoy tonight.
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A second security source said that the quantities of explosives at the apartment and in the unexploded bomb were similar.
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The current building boom in German cities is also a factor: developers are increasingly redeveloping land and finding unexploded bombs.
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Reports have suggested that the construction would be part bridge and part tunnel, to avoid unexploded bombs in the water.
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The secretary of state meets the country's leaders today, and unexploded bombs are expected to be part of the agenda.
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One of those bombs exploded on West 23rd Street, and the other was later found unexploded on West 27th Street.
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Around Marawi, volunteers for the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action distributed leaflets to returning evacuees warning them of unexploded ordnance.
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A Reuters witness near the searched building heard officials discussing that the explosive device "was exactly like" the unexploded bomb.
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Mines and unexploded ordnance left from that war have inflicted more than 100,000 casualties since the last American troops departed.
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"Eighty-four percent of victims from unexploded ordnance were children," Danielle Bell, UNAMA human rights director, said in the report.
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It is still unclear how long removing the threat of unexploded bombs will actually take, though a few estimates exist.
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Investigators found a lighter, fragments of firecrackers and three unexploded firecrackers at the site of explosion, the police statement said.
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But this assertion hangs on a thin thread, as the unexploded ordnance and defoliants still injure and kill people today.
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Before the storm, it was used as a Navy bombing range for 60 years and was littered with unexploded ordinance.
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To my right, signs alerted visitors in English and Spanish about the presence of unexploded ordnance and lasers in use.
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But Afghans also suffer at the hands of government and allied forces, sometimes as they come across their unexploded ordnance.
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Mario Fajardo, commander of the engineers' Alpha Company, again insisted that the engineers would take care of the unexploded submunitions.
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The Saudis recently trotted out an unexploded rocket that was launched from Yemen into the kingdom that bore Iranian markings.
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The deminers also found one unexploded artillery shell and two Soviet-era bombs like the one that killed the boys.
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Later an unexploded bomb was found in a room the woman had rented in Bekasi, about an hour outside Jakarta.
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I don't want another young person like me to fall victim to an unexploded mine or any kind of ordnance.
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" He is similarly dismissive of the lingering danger of booby traps and unexploded munitions: "We hardly find IEDs any more.
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More than 20073,22007 people have been killed or injured by unexploded ordnance in Laos since the end of the bombing.
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The authorities warned locals against trying to return to the town because unexploded shells could turn its streets into minefields.
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It has taken six months to clear hundreds of unexploded bombs and booby traps and for volunteers to sift the debris.
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Authorities have yet to retrieve all bodies from a battle zone that is still littered with unexploded munitions and homemade bombs.
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Ahmad Khan Rahami's world travels As law enforcement cordoned off the area, investigators found an unexploded pressure cooker four blocks away.
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"They asked me to pick up an unexploded shell, dig a hole in the ground and bury it there," he said.
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"The United States is helping Laos clear unexploded ordnance, which poses a threat to people and hampers economic development," it said.
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LONDON — Victoria station was evacuated Friday morning after an unexploded World War II bomb was discovered on a nearby building site.
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In 2004, Khamvongsa founded Legacies of War to raise awareness and increase financial support for clearance of unexploded ordnances in Laos.
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Every acre is weighed down by more than 3,000 tons of rubble, much of it laced with explosives and unexploded ordnance.
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LONDON — More than seven decades after World War II ended, unexploded munitions remain a hazard in Britain and elsewhere in Europe.
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That unexploded bomb was almost identical to the devices used in the Boston Marathon attacks three years earlier, authorities have said.
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In July, a kindergarten was evacuated after teachers discovered an unexploded World War Two bomb on a shelf among some toys.
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In 2012, the Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan said unexploded ordnance accounted for three times as many casualties as mines.
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How might Obama's presence in the country, or whatever he might say there, affect that issue of unexploded ordnance, or UXO?
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A year and a half after the battle, Mosul's Old City is still in ruins, and unexploded bombs regularly kill people.
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"(It) was observed and recorded removing the unexploded limpet mine from the Kokuka Courageous (video attached)," Urban said in a statement.
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This month, a dissident group claimed responsibility for several unexploded letter bombs that were sent from Ireland to London and Glasgow.
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At the bottom of the crater that Megaton is built in, though, is what made the town possible: An unexploded bomb.
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Planes carrying nukes, the terrifying sound of life atomized into static noise: "Unexploded Ordnances (UXO)" feels very much of the minute.
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The forest site is being sealed off to ramblers as authorities start groundworks and check for unexploded World War II explosives.
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Cluster weapons, advocates of a ban said, pose unacceptable risks to civilians, as unexploded bomblets endanger anyone who happens upon them.
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The US Coast Guard had established a 1,500-yard safety zone around the unexploded ordnance, Coast Guard spokeswoman Ali Flockerzi said.
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To suggest that the corporate battlefields today contain more unexploded mines than in the past is a clear sign of amnesia.
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" Abby Frimpong, Development DIrector at the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) told VICE Impact, "For each piece sold, 10 percent of the product cost is donated to MAG which trains and employs Laotians to survey and clear unexploded bombs as well as perform risk education sessions in communities to teach them about the dangers of unexploded ordnance (UXO).
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The US released video footage it says shows an Iranian patrol boat removing an unexploded mine from one of the vessels' hulls.
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Jesse, for unknown reasons, remains unexploded, and he sets out to use his power for what he considers good, with mixed results.
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CREW OF ONE OF OIL TANKERS ABANDONED SHIP AFTER SPOTTING AN UNEXPLODED DEVICE ATTACHED TO IT, BELIEVED TO BE LIMPET MINE -U.
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They also found more information that pointed to Rahami on cell phones that were wired to the unexploded bombs, the official said.
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Unexploded political issues, such as whether the leadership will eventually support a "People's Vote" on Brexit, could trigger a swathe of defections.
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These unexploded ordnances have claimed hundreds of lives, while displacing Yemenis from their homes and impeding access to roads, water and farmland.
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The river banks were once a war zone between Israel and Jordan, and were littered with thousands of mines and unexploded ordnance.
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Wearing special protective gear, the Brooklyn-based photographer followed UNMAS teams as they carefully disarmed IEDs and unexploded bombs around the city.
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Investigators closed in on Conditt on Tuesday evening, after discovering an unexploded device that had been dropped off at a FedEx site.
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Later an unexploded bomb was found in a room the woman had rented in Bekasi, about an hour outside Jakarta, police said.
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Kabul (CNN)Three people are dead after children found and played with an unexploded mortar in Afghanistan on Sunday, provincial authorities said.
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Helicopters were scanning an area of between 3 km and 4 km (about 2 miles) around the site, for any unexploded ordnance.
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"No one comes to buy them anymore," Sumta said of the exploded and unexploded bombs he once sold to Vietnamese scrap dealers.
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Mr. Obama, administration officials said, would pledge millions of dollars in additional funding to help clear unexploded ordnance from the Laotian countryside.
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Austin police called in a bomb squad at the FedEx center near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, where the unexploded package was found.
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Currently, the United States military is clearing unexploded ordnance, mines and other booby traps from Raqqa just to make it minimally habitable.
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The first device exploded in a dumpster, and a second unexploded device was found on West 27th St. a short time after.
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A United States-led coalition fighting the Islamic State has heavily bombed the area, raising concerns about unexploded ordinance that may remain.
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Amid the festivities, Abdul Basit, one of the children playing behind the house, picked up an unexploded shell, and it blew up.
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"There are still stragglers and the structures are still unsafe because of unexploded ordnance and improvised explosive devices," he said on radio.
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A photo of an unexploded bucket has been making the rounds on social media and it doesn't appear that the improvised bomb exploded.
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Artifacts, history, and archaeology aside, many of these wrecks are very dangerous, containing environmental and public safety hazards like oil or unexploded bombs.
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S. Central Command released a video suggesting U.S. military assets saw Iranian vessels returning to a targeted tanker to remove an unexploded mine.
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Iranian sailors, thought to be members of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, then remove an unexploded limpet mine from the hull of the ship.
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A suspected unexploded bomb on the shores of the Thames in Wapping, east London, turned out to be an oversized glittery Christmas bauble.
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Roads into the city are lined with warning signs alerting travelers to booby traps and unexploded ordnance that encircles much of the city.
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The FBI said Wednesday it is seeking information about two unknown men who were seen handling an unexploded bomb in Manhattan on Saturday.
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Kerry, a Vietnam vet, said the United States was also trying to help Cambodia clear unexploded ordnance left behind from the Vietnam War.
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Mr Kerry also touched on "painful reminders" of the Vietnam war, including unexploded American ordnance that continues to take Cambodian lives and limbs.
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On Friday, the United States released video footage they say shows Iranian special forces removing an unexploded mine from one of the tankers.
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Mine-clearing organization Halo says Afghanistan has been left littered with unexploded ordnance, with more than 23,500 casualties recorded between 1979 and 2015.
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In the soft morning sunlight the wrecked city took on a strange beauty, but Hamad had to tread carefully to avoid unexploded bombs.
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" Colonel Brawner said soldiers must "rescue the remaining hostages and make sure there are no stragglers or I.E.D.s of unexploded ordnance left behind.
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Another photograph, the Pentagon said, shows the "remnants of the magnetic attachment device of unexploded limpet mine" placed on one of the tankers.
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For safety's sake, one would want to approach any unexploded munition with the absolute minimum number of people required to accomplish the mission.
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Wearing military-style regalia, General Hifter said that all that remained was to clear battle-scarred neighborhoods of land mines and unexploded ordnance.
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The DoD fails to lay out guidelines for the use of these weapons and ways to minimize unintended harm stemming from unexploded ordnance.
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The United States has released video footage it says shows an Iranian patrol boat removing an unexploded mine from one of the vessels' hulls.
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Investigators say that Mr Jalilov, an ethnic Uzbek, was spotted on security cameras and that his DNA was found on the second unexploded device.
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Not only do airstrikes destroy property and infrastructure, but unexploded bombs make it difficult for people to return to areas devastated by the war.
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On Tuesday, Obama announced a new $90 million US effort to clear unexploded bombs in Laos that are ruining lives and stalling economic development.
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A few startups have experimented with drones that use a technology called LIDAR, an optical version of radar, to scour countryside for unexploded munitions.
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The weapons, outlawed by an international treaty because they kill indiscriminately, often leave unexploded "bomblets" or submunitions that can kill or maim unsuspecting civilians.
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Riddled with mines and unexploded ordnance, bombed out buildings, roads and bridges and airports, the repair bill would run into the billions of dollars.
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Shiite militiamen had looted parts of Tikrit, the main hospital was destroyed, and unexploded ordnance lurked in areas that had been ravaged by combat.
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Unexploded bombs, bullets, and projectiles are all over Vieques, according to Judith Enck, the former EPA administrator for Region 2, which covers Puerto Rico.
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And in addition to homemade bombs, members have also begun discussing trying to find unexploded World War II ordnance to make improvised explosive devices.
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Children made up one third of overall casualties, and 80 percent of those from unexploded munitions, according to the United Nations Mine Action Service.
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He is now an adviser to Vietnamese who as part of Project Renew are cleaning up unexploded ordnance and helping victims like Mr. Lai.
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It was not immediately clear whether the group had been targeted, or whether previously unexploded ordnance from heavy militia bombing might have been involved.
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The crew of the Iranian patrol boat then pried the unexploded mine off the hull of the tanker and sped away, the officials said.
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The suspect — who was spotted on airport CCTV wearing a conspicuous dark-colored sun hat — fled the scene, leaving behind an unexploded third bomb.
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Specialist Jonathan Morita, whose finger bones shattered when an unexploded rocket-propelled grenade struck his hand, has regained only limited use of his hand.
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Munitions experts in Germany have safely defused seven unexploded bombs from World War II that were found on the site of Tesla's new factory.
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The unexploded land mines have kept humans away and allowed the penguin population to thrive since they're not heavy enough to set them off.
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The unexploded World War II bombs that authorities periodically discover here and in other countries like Germany are far more than just historical curiosities.
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Four years ago, the discovery of tons of unexploded munitions along a cable route led to costly delays for a German offshore wind farm.
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The US has provided about $80 million to Vietnam, $85 million to Laos, and $100 million to Cambodia to date for unexploded ordnance removal.
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The legacy of the bombing still lingers in such unexploded ordnance, although American and other foreign aid pays for most efforts to remove it.
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The area has remained off limits until this month, when the military said it had cleared it of hazards like booby traps and unexploded ordnance.
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"We are pleased that HMCS Yellowknife was able to locate the object and determine that the object was not an unexploded military munition," Lt. Cmdr.
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You&aposve got an archaeological site right next to it that&aposs got the remains of over 900 men and the possibility of unexploded ordnance.
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Russian state news media said on Thursday that Syria found two unexploded cruise missiles after the strikes and has handed them over to Russian officials.
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Arms control advocates point out unexploded mines continue to pose a serious risk to civilians long after conflicts have ended, unless demining teams clear them.
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Wolfgang Spyra of Cottbus University is using Allied aerial photos taken after raids to identify zones where the risk of unexploded bombs is especially high.
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"The seabed is full of armaments and lots of unexploded munitions down there from World War Two when it was all dumped there," he explained.
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Unexploded wartime bombs are unearthed frequently during construction work in Germany, often forcing authorities to evacuate tens of thousands of residents while they are defused.
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Approximately a quarter of its villages are contaminated with unexploded ordnance, says the British-based Mines Advisory Group, which helps find and destroy the bombs.
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It is where many suspicious packages and much unexploded ordnance ends up, for the bomb squad to disassemble or blow up in a controlled environment.
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More than four decades on, the country grapples with millions of cluster munitions and other unexploded ordnance devices that kill and maim dozens each year.
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That's because authorities will attempt to dispose of an unexploded World War II-era bomb found during construction work near the city's central train station.
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The bomblets also have a high failure rate, often leaving a trail of unexploded ordnances that may later kill or maim those in the vicinity.
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Yet, until recently, collecting and selling scrap metal from unexploded and exploded bombs provided the main source of cash income to farmers on the trail.
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In July, the discovery of an unexploded wartime bomb among children's toys led to the evacuation of a kindergarten in Darmstadt, just south of Frankfurt.
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Experts say the bombs are just as dangerous as they were seven decades ago, even though the Germans are experienced at dealing with unexploded devices.
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A "tsunami-like wave" would rush through Mosul, carrying away everything in its path, including bodies, buildings, cars, unexploded bombs, hazardous chemicals, and human waste.
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"The funds we provide to help countries like Jordan locate and remove unexploded bombs has saved countless lives," Mr. Leahy said in a separate statement.
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The United Nations said many of last year's casualties involving children and unexploded ordnance were caused by new explosive items left behind after recent fighting.
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At the age of 12, her mother Hoa lost both legs and an arm due to unexploded ordnance (UXO), while playing in her front yard.
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When Mr. Saber was 3, a cousin was playing with an unexploded ordnance in their village on the outskirts of Kabul and it went off.
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After their brief beer sauna, your eggs (hopefully soft and unexploded) have a nice and subtle bitterness that also delights with a little boozy kick.
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This one ostensibly quarantines "extensive amounts" of unexploded bombs left over by the United States Navy, which controlled much of the island during the 227th century.
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TAP - which has cordoned off the Melendugno site, swept for unexploded war bombs and checked for archaeological relics - says it officially started work on May 16.
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BRAC activities present near-term expenses, such as environmental remediation and clean-up of unexploded ordinance, in the expectation of greater savings in the long term.
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The danger of unexploded World War Two aerial bombs lurking in the soil still haunts Germany more than seven decades after the war ended in 1945.
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The bomb was just one of more than 75 million unexploded cluster bombs that litter Laos' forests, rice fields and villages, by Legacies of War's calculations.
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He announced that Washington would provide an additional $90 million over three years to help clear unexploded ordnance, which has killed or wounded over 20,000 people.
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GRAND EST, France — Beneath the verdant, rolling farmland of northeastern France lay a deadly secret of WWI: hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of unexploded bomb shells.
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Children were also a large percentage of the overall number of civilians killed or injured by unexploded ordnance, which claimed a total of 220006 civilian casualties.
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I was studying the efficacy of international law, namely whether legal remedies exist for civilian victims of unexploded ordnance and chemical weapons from the Vietnam War.
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Also on Thursday night, the United States military released two photographs of the ship's hull, showing damage and what it said was likely the unexploded mine.
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Footage: A U.S. Navy surveillance plane flying over the two tankers on Thursday spotted an unexploded mine attached to the hull of one of the ships.
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Two of the smaller children picked the object up, and 43-year-old Jalil then realized that it was dangerous: an unexploded rocket from the battle.
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During one outing with his 10-year-old nephew, the child picks up an unexploded missile; on another, he and his wife come under prolonged gunfire.
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An unexploded US-made World War II bomb also was discovered at a Hong Kong construction site last year and another in 2014, local media reported.
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More than an apology, however, what the people of the region could use are tangible resources to end the legacy of unexploded bombs and Agent Orange.
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The report included photographs from Yemen purporting to show unexploded but potentially lethal remnants of American cluster weapons, suggesting that they had failed legally required reliability standards.
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One of the security sources said the explosives found in the apartment building on Thursday was "was exactly like" the unexploded bomb found at the metro station.
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Tanker attacks The US military released a video that it says shows an Iranian navy boat removing an unexploded mine from the hull of a chemical tanker.
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The U.S. military later released a video that it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded mine from the side of a Japanese-owned oil tanker.
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BERLIN – German authorities have evacuated a downtown area of the eastern city of Dresden after an unexploded World War II-era bomb was found during construction work.
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It released photographs that show sailors from Iran's navy removing what appears to be an unexploded limpet mine from one of the ships damaged earlier this month.
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"Iran is responsible for the attack based on video evidence and the resources and proficiency needed to quickly remove the unexploded limpet mine," the Pentagon said Monday.
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About 10 minutes later, surveillance video showed the same man with the same duffel bag on West 27th Street, near where the unexploded pressure cooker was found.
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He led Reuters to a nearby rice paddy and pointed to a waterlogged crater where he said he buried the unexploded mortar used in the army operation.
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On Wednesday, Obama is expected to visit an organization in Vientiane that works with those disabled by unexploded ordnance, the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise Visitor Center.
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Amnesty International researchers have already found both unexploded U.S. bombs and identifiable fragments of exploded U.S. bombs among the ruins of Yemeni homes and other civilian objects.
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WARSAW, Poland – Polish police say they are evacuating more than 2,000 people after the discovery of an unexploded World War II-era bomb weighing some 550 pounds.
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The Pentagon said that the crew of one of the tankers, the Japanese Kokuka Courageous, found an unexploded limpet mine on its hull following an initial explosion.
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The suspect — who was spotted on airport CCTV wearing a conspicuous dark-colored sun hat — fled the scene of the bombing, leaving behind the unexploded third bomb.
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The second package was turned over intact to law enforcement, marking the first time investigators will get their hands on one of the serial bomber's unexploded devices.
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The dependence on debt created what has been described as an "unexploded bomb" — a precariously balanced powder keg that could be set off by the coronavirus outbreak.
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We saw one of Belgium's four resting places for the German dead, Langemarck Cemetery, and learned about the area's danger to farmers and builders uncovering unexploded shells.
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Decades of fighting between Colombia's armed forces and rebel groups has left the country contaminated by landmines and unexploded munitions, with 31 of its 32 departments affected.
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In 2010, nearly one thousand unexploded munitions of American origin were found in Okinawa, and in 2005 a one-ton bomb forced the evacuation of 7,000 Tokyo residents.
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Boris Johnson's planned bridge across the Irish Sea risks collisions with ships and could dislodge unexploded munitions lying on the seabed, says one of the world's top engineers.
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An unexploded device, believed to be a limpet mine, was spotted on the side of the Japanese tanker, a U.S. official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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The city has no electricity or running water, thousands of bodies lie unburied in the ruins, and every day returning civilians are killed or injured by unexploded munitions.
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That changed late last month when Indian artillery shells hit the village and an unexploded device found its way into the hands of four-year-old Ayan Ali.
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Surveillance video shows a man believed to be Rahami with a duffel bag in the area where an unexploded pressure cooker was found in New York's Chelsea neighborhood.
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The agent, who was assigned to the Brian A. Terry Station in Bisbee, Arizona, found an unexploded MKII 37mm ordnance round, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday.
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Land mines and unexploded weaponry in Northern Shan State, and parts of Kachin, Rakhine, and Chin states are also highlighted, because foreign tourists have been injured by them.
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The toll - more than twice that recorded in 2013 - includes deaths from improvised explosive devices, unexploded cluster munitions and other remnants of war, as well as from mines.
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LONDON — Many remarkable things have emerged from the River Thames in its long, crowded and often filthy history, from pods of dolphins to unexploded World War II bombs.
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A initial report for the incident seen by Reuters said the worker was trying to defuse "unexploded ordnance body which suddenly went off and killed the him immediately".
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The Navy released grainy video last week that it said showed an Islamic Revolutionary Guard patrol boat pulling up to the Kokuka Courageous and removing an unexploded mine.
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Normally, the Pentagon does not like to disclose details that military planners view as "operational," and the specific location of unexploded American ordnance is included in that definition.
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Many private landowners are unwilling to lease land while other areas are unsuitable because of their topography, proximity to fighting or the risk of unexploded ordinance or landmines.
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In 2008, an unexploded 2,200-pound bomb was discovered during work to clear a site for the 2012 Olympic Games, in another onetime industrial area of East London.
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Soldiers manning the area on Thursday ordered a group of residents scouring debris to quickly leave one of the streets after they found an unexploded bomb, which they detonated.
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Looters had ripped out the majority of the Houston's portholes, removed rivets holding the ship's hull together, and had been in the process of gathering unexploded shells and ordnance.
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Russia is not a signatory to a 2008 United Nations treaty, which bans their use because of their indiscriminate nature and the threat to civilians posed by unexploded bomblets.
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The other big challenge facing the bridge is the approximate one million tonnes of unexploded munitions lying on the Irish Sea bed near the proposed location of the crossing.
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In an old restaurant by an alleyway, where oil drums marked a front line, and with an unexploded gas canister bomb in the courtyard, the woodwork is all burned.
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A video released by the US military the next day purported to show Iran Revolutionary Guard boats taking an unexploded limpet mine from the hull of the Japanese tanker.
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Unexploded ordnance While Sunday's explosion is thought to be the result of a mortar fired just a day earlier, decades of conflict have left a dangerous legacy in Afghanistan.
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Niantic, the game's maker, responded by removing checkpoints from sensitive locations like the Holocaust Museum and from obviously dangerous locations, such territories with unexploded ordinance like bombs and landmines.
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Dianne Feinstein of California and Patrick Leahy of Vermont introduced a bill that would have banned funding for cluster bombs that do not meet a 1% unexploded ordnance standard.
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Obama, the first U.S. president to visit Laos, is expected to announce more funding to help clear the leftover bombs and conduct Laos' first national survey on unexploded ordnance.
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"Iran is responsible for the attack based on video evidence and the resources and proficiency needed to quickly remove the unexploded limpet mine," Central Command said in a statement.
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At one time, against the orders of a superior, he rushed over to a fellow soldier who had collapsed near an unexploded grenade and pulled the soldier to safety.
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Prosecutors have said that Rahimi left behind unexploded bombs in New York and New Jersey before being captured after a shootout with police in which two officers were injured.
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Attapeu Province, which borders Vietnam and Cambodia, is heavily contaminated with what disarmament experts call unexploded ordnance, which can detonate on unsuspecting civilians even after decades of lurking undisturbed.
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A Rusty Bombshell at a Chip Factory: An unexploded bomb from World War I was discovered at a factory in Hong Kong after being harvested with potatoes in France.
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LONDON — An airport in London was shut down Sunday night and Monday by a relic of World War II: a 2003,2200-pound unexploded German bomb discovered during construction work.
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In the orphanage's courtyard, an unexploded bomb, dropped from a plane, juts out of the ground, a vivid reminder of how close death is to these kids at every turn.
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The U.S. military released a video late on Thursday that it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) removing an unexploded mine from the side of the Japanese-owned oil tanker.
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Later, US Central Command released a video that claims to show an Iranian navy boat removing an unexploded mine from the hull of the Japanese-owned chemical tanker Kokura Courageous.
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The buses queued at a crossing point before moving into the enclave along a road on the former front lines that had been cleared of barricades, debris and unexploded ordnance.
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Barnett is not in law enforcement, but he's licensed to dispose of unexploded ordinances and has been working with explosive materials since he was a child out in West Texas.
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Separately, six girls younger than 10 were killed when an unexploded mortar they picked up to play with suddenly exploded on Wednesday, officials in the eastern province of Laghman said.
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Remnants of war lie everywhere: Over here an unexploded mortar round pokes its navigation fins from the earth, and over there the roof of a home is blipped with bulletholes.
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He returned to Washington profoundly moved by the scope of the unexploded ordnance problem and convinced clearance was key to helping the impoverished nation better develop its agriculture and economy.
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Late Saturday, about two hours later, an unexploded pressure cooker with a flip phone attached was discovered on west 21th Street in New York City, the federal official tells PEOPLE.
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Air Force B-52s made at least 3,500 raids inside Cambodia, contributing to a legacy of bomb fragments and unexploded bombs that still make parts of the country off limits.
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President Obama became the first sitting American president to visit Laos, promising more aid to help locate unexploded bombs the U.S. dropped during its secret war alongside the Vietnam conflict.
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But the relative calm may be like an unexploded bomb, its volatility not so much defused as contained by the thought that Trump Republicans will be punished in the Nov.
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The United States bombed Laos from 1965 to 1973, leaving the northern part of the country a wreck, a dangerous place with unexploded ordnance that has caused terrible injuries since.
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But much of Mosul was heavily damaged, including its famed al-Nuri mosque, and vast parts remain littered with unexploded bombs and booby-traps left by fleeing Islamic State fighters.
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C.I.A. contractors trained Laotian soldiers to fight Communist insurgents and their North Vietnamese allies until 1975, leaving the country under Communist control and with a deadly legacy of unexploded bombs.
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More than four decades after the end of the war, unexploded ordnance is still killing and maiming Laotians, and Obama announced that he was doubling American funding to remove it.
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A farmer in Scotland discovered an unexploded World War II bomb last year, and farmers in Belgium have found shells even in fields that have been plowed many times before.
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I had heard of the problem of unexploded ordnance before arriving in Vietnam for the first time in 2014 to witness the legacy of the country with my own eyes.
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According to the Mines Advisory Group (the preeminent humanitarian organization working to clear land mines and other unexploded ordnance), Laos is the most heavily bombed country, per capita, in history.
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The bodies that remain are a severe health hazard, but there's little political will to deal with them, and removing them is risky given the unexploded munitions littering the area.
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Residents sometimes erect small skull signs near places where they have spotted an unexploded mine, in a quest to warn people to stay away until an expert can come and clear.
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Meanwhile, the Lokanins never quite made it back home—unexploded ordnance from battles on Attu rendered the island uninhabitable, so survivors spent the rest of their lives on nearby territories instead.
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"Iran is responsible for the attack based on video evidence and the resources and proficiency needed to quickly remove the unexploded limpet mine," the Pentagon said in a June 17 statement.
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The U.S. military released footage which it claimed showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps removing an unexploded mine from the side of one of the stricken tankers - a claim Tehran strongly denies.
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Some 80 million unexploded bombs are scattered across the country -- the deadly legacy of what became known as America's "secret war" in Laos -- a CIA-led mission during the Vietnam War.
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After a weekly Friday protest in mid-July, the researcher says that she found an unexploded open-tip bullet in the sand surrounding the Al-Bureji protest camp near the border.
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Part of the problem is that the debris contains unexploded bombs, heavy metals such as mercury and other sorts of toxic waste, all of which need to be dealt with gingerly.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German police evacuated a kindergarten in the western city of Darmstadt on Wednesday after teachers found an unexploded World War Two bomb lying on a shelf among some toys.
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In August 2015, 150 people were evacuated after a 500-pound unexploded World War II bomb was found in the basement of a building site in Bethnal Green, in East London.
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Photographs of the aftermath of another attack a week later, near the al-Tanf border crossing in southern Syria, showed cluster munitions remnants, including unexploded bomblets, or sub-munitions, HRW said.
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She said so too had her father-in-laws house and that a rocket had landed unexploded next to the kindergarten her two young children aged 2170 and 22015 - usually attend.
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Noorzia is one of the more than 2,000 civilian victims of mines and exploded remnants of war, which include unexploded bombs, rockets, improvised explosive devices and grenades, in Afghanistan last year.
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Watch: The Pentagon on Thursday night released a video that it says shows an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps boat pulling alongside one of the damaged ships and removing an unexploded mine.
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Before long, photos of Tomahawk missile parts appeared in news reports from Yemen, along with one clearly showing an unexploded BLU-297 — distinctive bright yellow and made in the United States.
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And he is acutely aware that his surname, which doubles as a racial slur, can teeter like an unexploded bomb on the lips of every Mississippian who dares to mutter it.
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Bomb disposal officer Alick McWhirter identified the unexploded ordinance as a "1,000-pound, general-purpose aircraft bomb" dropped by US warplanes when this former British colony was occupied by Japanese forces.
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But the Iraqi government body tasked with preserving mass graves says it is underfunded and understaffed, and cannot adequately protect and investigate the sites which are still littered with unexploded ordinance.
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Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all have serious problems with unexploded ordnance — bombs that failed to explode when initially dropped but still lurk beneath the surface, waiting to explode when stumbled upon.
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QUANG TRI, Vietnam (Reuters) - Two petite women in protective gear walk slowly down an empty field in Vietnam, carrying a large metal detector that clicks and whirrs, searching for unexploded ordnance.
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Alyona Synenko, an ICRC spokesperson, said it involved "sensitive" and protracted negotiations to first clear unexploded ordnance, then bring machinery closer than usual to the border to make the land cultivable.
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She tugs on those threads and, like that iconic scene in The Hurt Locker, where all the threads pull up unexploded mines, she starts to realize that Cambridge Analytica links them all.
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The United States has blamed Iran for the attacks, releasing a video that it says shows an Iranian navy boat removing an unexploded mine from the hull of one of the tankers.
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The US has blamed Iran for those attacks and has released video of what it claims are Iranian military personnel removing an unexploded mine from one of the ships that was attacked.
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An American tourist caused a portion of the Vienna Airport in Austria to shut down after she allegedly tried to take an unexploded World War II artillery shell through customs, reports said.
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MINE IMAGES The U.S. military released a video late on Thursday that it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) removing an unexploded mine from the side of the Japanese-owned oil tanker.
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Bombs mistaken for toys More than 19.53,000 people have been killed or maimed by the unexploded ordnance (UXOs) since the war ended, and currently, 50 people are maimed or killed every year.
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Investigators found 12 latent prints in all on the unexploded bomb, along with duct tape and a cell phone triggering device, which was later traced them to Rahami, according to the complaint.
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Thai authorities recovered an unexploded firebomb at a market in central Bangkok on Wednesday in what they said was a device left over from coordinated attacks last week that wounded four people.
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Two more incidents took place Tuesday: A bomb detonated inside a FedEx facility near San Antonio and a sixth unexploded device was found at another FedEx facility, this time near Austin's airport.
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Photo: Tower Hamlets Police (Twitter)On Wednesday, London police officers were called to investigate a "possible unexploded device," which had apparently washed onto the bank of the River Thames in east London.
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Then Kaj Larsen travels to Burma and Laos to see the devastating effects that unexploded landmines continue to have in Southeast Asia years after the US planted them during the Vietnam War.
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An unexploded pressure cooker bomb -- almost identical to the devices used in the Boston Marathon attacks three years earlier -- was found several blocks from the Chelsea blast, according to a criminal complaint.
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But in a "spirit of reconciliation," he said the United States would double to $30 million a year for three years its aid to Laos to help find and dismantle unexploded bombs.
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The FBI also continued to search for two men who found a second, unexploded pressure cooker device that prosecutors say Rahami left in a piece of luggage in Chelsea on Saturday night.
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A third bomb was found unexploded at the airport, but the two that were detonated blew holes in the roof and maimed scores of people as they waited to check their baggage.
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On the last episode, we met the team of female volunteers working to eradicate polio in Pakistan, as well as expert disposal teams trying to detonate unexploded land mines in Southeast Asia.
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A breakthrough in the case came Tuesday when a package exploded at a FedEx sorting center near San Antonio, and a second unexploded bomb was discovered at a FedEx facility near Austin.
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The FBI also continued to search for two men who found a second, unexploded pressure-cooker device that prosecutors say Rahami left in a piece of luggage in Chelsea on Saturday night.
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The stop, the first by an American president, acknowledged the devastation caused by American bombing during the Vietnam War and the millions of unexploded bombs that remained in Laos after the war.
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In 22015, the Government Accountability Office reported that 973 American service members were killed and 297 were wounded during and after Desert Storm by unexploded cluster bomblets dropped by the United States.
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One set of photos provided by a de-miner show how the group set up an open-air chop shop to cut open unexploded American aircraft bombs and remove the explosive inside.
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In Hanoi, one of Obama's staffers told him that, until the episode aired, some people in the White House had been unaware of the extent of the unexploded-ordnance problem in Laos.
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All flights to and from London's City Airport were canceled on Monday after an unexploded World War II bomb was discovered in the River Thames at George V Dock, the airport said.
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They leave behind large numbers of unexploded ordnance which can kill or maim civilians long after a war has ended, and have been used recently in Yemen, Sudan, Ukraine, Libya and Syria.
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"We have bases all around us, so it's not uncommon for things like this to happen around here," Appleton said, referring to unexploded munitions that have previously turned up in the area.
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Later Thursday, four US officials told CNN that the US has video and photos that show an Iranian navy boat removing an unexploded mine attached to the hull of one of the tankers.
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And at 4:10 pm local time, an IRGC patrol boat was seen removing the unexploded mine from the Kokuka Courageous — an event the whole world can see now in the released video.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Unexploded landmines left by Islamic State fighters cover every inch of their former Syrian capital of Raqqa, a U.N. official said on Tuesday, advising civilians against returning to their homes there.
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A century after the guns fell silent, bomb-disposal units are still working to corral unexploded shells, grenades, shrapnel, mines and other deadly ordnance, often uncovered by farmers as they plough the fields.
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In the Afghan landscape, what has happened in America is almost as impossible or hypothetical as science fiction; Wray quietly leaves its terrible implications and consequences in the earth, like unexploded ordnance. ♦
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Then, on my way out, my foot knocked over a concrete block and uncovered an I.E.D. I stopped, and noticed two other unexploded bombs a few feet away, as well as four detonators.
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From 1964 to 203, U.S. warplanes dropped more than 270 million cluster munitions on Laos, one-third of which did not explode, according to the Lao National Regulatory Authority for unexploded ordnance (UXO).
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As a result, the former French colony's mountains, plateaus and plains look relatively unspoiled — but in reality, they are laced with an estimated 225 million unexploded bombs left over from the Vietnam War.
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By the next day, she and her team had played a crucial role in identifying Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man charged with planting the bomb in Chelsea along with a second, unexploded device.
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Food, human waste, tourniquets, bloody gloves, cans of paint, plastic water bottles, unexploded ordnance, batteries, tires, big screen televisions, mini-fridges, Kindle E-readers and entire humvees, too damaged by IEDs to salvage.
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"The UN is deeply worried about the safety of returning families and the widespread infestation of many neighbourhoods with unexploded devices and booby traps," Lise Grande, UN humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, told Reuters.
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The U.S. State Department said on its website that U.S. assistance to Cambodia for programs in health, education, governance, economic growth and clearing unexploded ordnance was worth more than $77.6 million in 2014.
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In contrast to the booby traps and makeshift bombs left by the Islamic State fighters, the unexploded American ordnance is much easier to find — once the Pentagon gives removal experts the grid coordinates.
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Before World War I, a "dud" was anything or anybody unsatisfactory, but by the time the conflict ended, "dud" referred chiefly to an unexploded shell or bomb, as it does to this day.
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Children at School No. 7 wear backpacks donated by Unicef and there are posters in the hallways and classrooms that explain the dangers of unexploded ordnance with cartoons of maimed and beheaded people.
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Children often pick them up thinking they are toys — indeed, 2130 percent of unexploded ordnance victims in Laos are children, and more than half the world's cluster munition casualties have occurred in Laos.
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About 75 percent of that rubble is in West Mosul, and it's mixed with so much unexploded ordnance that experts say this is now one of the most contaminated spots on the planet.
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After a weekly Friday protest in mid-July, one of the group's researchers says that she found an unexploded open-tip bullet in the sand surrounding the Al-Bureji protest camp near the border.
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This was brought home during President Barack Obama's visit to the tiny South-East Asian nation in September, when he pledged more money to remove unexploded American bombs, though without offering any formal apology.
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During an address to the Lao people in the country's capital, Obama pledged $90 million in a joint three-year project with the country's government to clear tens of millions of unexploded US bombs.
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"They cannot live in safety until contaminated areas in and around their homes and fields are identified and cleared of deadly cluster bomb sub munitions and other unexploded ordnance," Fakih said in a statement.
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LONDON (Reuters) - All flights to and from London's City Airport were canceled on Monday after an unexploded World War Two bomb weighing half a tonne was found buried in silt in the River Thames.
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A bomb also exploded on a charity race rout in Seaside Park, N.J. earlier the same day, and an unexploded device was found blocks away from the crime scene in New York that night.
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It came from a Guardian reporter walking into an unassuming bookstore somewhere in New England, one that happened to be carrying Fire and Fury early, just sitting there on a shelf like unexploded ordinance.
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To back up its claim, U.S. Central Command released video last week it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the tankers attacked in the Gulf of Oman.
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Travelers are also warned to be wary of unexploded bombs from the Indochina War in the provinces of Savannakhet, Xieng Khouang, Saravane, Khammouane, Sekong, Champassak, Houaphan, Attapeu, Luang Prabang, Vientiane, and along Route 7.
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Home to a former nuclear weapons bunker and weapons testing sites, the Army post is contaminated with "radioactive materials, unexploded ordnances, heavy metals, PCBs, asbestos, petroleum, pesticides, and volatile organic compounds," the FOIA states.
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Investigators have identified the two men who found a travel bag containing an unexploded bomb on a Manhattan street this month, a few blocks from where a bomb exploded, two law enforcement officials said.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities recovered an unexploded firebomb at a market in central Bangkok on Wednesday in what they said was a device left over from coordinated attacks last week that wounded four people.
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Today, the region, which was subject to possibly the heaviest aerial bombing and defoliation campaign in history, is still dotted with unexploded ordnance despite years of mine clearance and more than 7,000 postwar casualties.
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I've also encountered a couple of unexploded bombs and had the United States Coast Guard point a gun at me on the East River in New York during the preparation for a pope's visit.
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Within the first minutes of episode 1, Erin's family is hearing reports about an unexploded bomb on the bridge that leads to the school, and they're wondering whether that day's classes will be canceled.
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Some of those allied soldiers were killed by unexploded DPICM grenades, but emerging from Desert Storm was a hero narrative around these little submunitions — and one without any official documentation to back it up.
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War after war, piling on each other for decades, has left Afghanistan covered in more than 22002,21 square miles of mines, unexploded munitions, roadside bombs and shuttered firing ranges, according to Afghan government data.
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It also established a time frame of 22019 years for the removal of all the unexploded ammunition and bombs that pollute and threaten peoples' lives, both on the land and in the nearby seabed.
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One of the officials said a US military aircraft overhead recorded a full motion video of an Iranian boat moving alongside one of the stricken tankers and removing an unexploded limpet mine from its hull.
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It was no small accomplishment, and aside from one missed cue and an unexploded World War II-era bomb in the River Thames that almost shut down the production entirely, things went off hitch-free.
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American forces last used land mines and cluster munitions in large quantities during the 1991 Gulf war, and cleanup efforts in Kuwait and Iraq to find and destroy unexploded ordnance of both types continue today.
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That figure does not include spending to clean up unexploded weapons — including from cluster bombs — on disused military practice ranges, including those on the island of Kaho'olawe in Hawaii and on Vieques in Puerto Rico.
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A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the United States had video showing Iran's military removing what Washington believes was an unexploded limpet mine from the side of the Japanese tanker.
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The money Obama pledged Tuesday will be spent surveying the Asian nation for some 80 million unexploded cluster bombs dropped during a secret US bombing campaign as part of the Vietnam War 40 years ago.
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Partially autonomous and remotely operated underwater vehicles are used to map oceans, observe sea life and pollution, clear underwater unexploded ordinance, and monitor oil and gas pipelines — jobs that are dangerous or impossible for divers.
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Clark came back in 2013 for a year and is still in Danang, busy with projects to destroy unexploded U.S. bombs and help families affected by the Agent Orange defoliant linked to illness and deformity.
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The army says it is nearing victory, but hostilities will have to be followed by a lengthy cleanup operation – unearthing and disarming unexploded ordnance, and scouring for possible booby traps – before residents can go home.
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The film consists mostly of a soldier wandering in a forest, carrying an unexploded V-2 rocket, eating bananas, holding conversations with a pirate and a talking octopus, and having visions of an old girlfriend.
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The British press reported that "Eden" was secretly in chaos: that the location was rife with midge swarms and unexploded bombs and that the cast had broken out, and had been seen roaming the countryside.
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Separately, army spokesman Major-General Restituto Padilla said Marawi was clear of militants who had been hiding in the ruins of the pummeled city, but unexploded munitions and booby traps had yet to be cleared.
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Travelers are warned not to go "off the beaten path" in Kuwait's desert region and certain beaches north of the Mutla'a ridge, because of the danger from unexploded weapons left over from the Gulf War.
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The first president to visit Laos, Mr. Obama came with a pledge to double American aid, to $30 million a year over three years, to help Laotians find unexploded bombs in their forests and fields.
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The rest of the casualties were either jointly attributed because they happened during ground fighting where it was hard to tell exactly which side was responsible, or were attributed to unexploded ordnance of unknown origin.
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MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - An American working for an international de-mining group died during an operation to clear mines and unexploded ordnance near the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, police and security officials said.
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Michael Sibley, 67, left two unexploded pipe bombs and a Koran in a park in Roswell, Georgia in 2014 in what he later told police was an attempt to highlight the danger of Islamic terrorism.
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In a video teleconference with Pentagon reporters, Colonel Dillon also said that Islamic State fighters had booby-trapped the city with improvised explosive devices and unexploded ordnance that officials say could take years to remove.
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MARAWI CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippine teachers on Tuesday gave families returning to the destroyed lakeside city of Marawi a course on how to identify unexploded bombs in their homes and warned them to stay clear.
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The U.S. military said black-and-white footage it filmed from a U.S. aircraft showed Iran's Guards on a patrol boat drawing up to the Kokuka Courageous and removing an unexploded limpet mine from its hull.
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Used as a Navy bombing range for 000 years, it is littered with unexploded weapons (such as bombs, shells, grenades, landmines), which, some suspect washed into the sea and water resources as the Hurricane María hit.
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What we know about the attack The crew of USS Bainbridge reported they saw an unexploded limpet mine on the side of one of the ships, according to a US defense official familiar with the matter.
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Later Thursday, four US officials told CNN that the US has video and photos that show an Iranian navy boat removing an unexploded mine attached to the hull of the Japanese-owned chemical tanker Kokura Courageous.
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Casualties caused by landmines, victim-activated explosive devices and unexploded weapons left behind after war totaled 6,461 in 2015, a 75 percent increase on the previous year, according to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL).
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They also increased efforts to help clean up vast tracts of land poisoned by Agent Orange and committed to "clear up its brass" -- to use a military term -- and help dispose of unexploded remnants of war.
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Since 1993, the United States has spent $3.4 billion to demine and eradicate unexploded ordnance in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, where civilians still are killed by the remnants left over from the Vietnam conflict.
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Images of the spherical TCV are now making the rounds on Twitter, with local news helicopters even tracking it as its hauled north to Rodman's Neck, a peninsula in the Bronx where police destroy unexploded bombs.
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Distracted users are roaming into areas dotted with the unexploded ordnances (left over from the 1990s conflict in that region) while trying to catch the virtual reality monsters, Posavina bez mina said on its Facebook page.
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Another cellphone found near the 23rd Street blast is believed to have also functioned as a timer, while a further phone found with the unexploded bomb on West 783th Street likely had the same planned purpose.
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The task force commander, Eduardo del Rosario, on Monday said obstacles to progress were debris, unexploded ordnance and unsafe structures, but said those should all be cleared by November, with some construction to start in September.
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In June, John Kerry, America's secretary of state, and Børge Brende, Norway's foreign minister, launched a new US-Norwegian Demining Initiative aimed at broadening international partnerships to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance in post-conflict countries.
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Ties between the former Cold War foes have warmed over the last 15 years or so, following cooperation over efforts to locate American soldiers missing during the Vietnam war and to dispose of unexploded U.S. ordnance.
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In addition to airstrikes, civilians must contend with hazards posed by unexploded bombs and cluster munitions dropped by the Saudi coalition, and with land mines laid by Houthi forces as they pull back, Mr. Harneis said.
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But the job isn't done, and as the fighting has spread across the countryside following the formal end of American combat operations in 2014, more and more areas are contaminated with unexploded munitions and improvised mines.
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A portion of that clenched mood plummets down the run with each racer, like unexploded ordnance, and detonates amid the pandemonium below, in a kind of steady bombardment of relief and adoration that reverberates for days.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A blast in Syria's Raqqa on Wednesday that wounded people was caused by an unexploded mine left by Islamic State going off, not by suicide attacks, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said.
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Finding the names of American troops who were killed or wounded by unexploded cluster weapons from World War II to the present is incredibly hard, and they are often not recorded as such in official reports.
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However, less than a month after the CCM's adoption, it released a policy stating that the U.S. military would eliminate its stockpiles of cluster munition, but only those with an unexploded ordnance rate above 1 percent.
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"Iran is responsible for the attack based on video evidence and the resources and proficiency needed to quickly remove the unexploded limpet mine," the U.S. military's Central Command said in a statement explaining the still-images.
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That unexploded bomb, according to the experts who reviewed a photograph of it in Russian media, was a low-tech homemade device, made locally with sugar and other readily available ingredients, and an improvised, non-commercial detonator.
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A US Army soldier maneuvers a robot into a cave to detect mines, traps, and other unexploded materials hidden by Taliban or al-Qaeda fugitives in the eastern border town of Qiqay, Afghanistan, on July 22001, 20013.
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According to the Pentagon, the images allegedly show an Iran Revolutionary Guard fast attack craft approaching one of the oil tankers to remove an unexploded limpet mine, a device believed to have been used in other attacks.
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Following a massive hunt for the gunmen that lasted hours, police have confirmed that the Sarinah area has been cleared of attackers and that five unexploded explosive devices were recovered from the parking lot outside of Starbucks.
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In Ghazni, heavily damaged by five days of heavy fighting this week, there were warnings of the danger posed by unexploded ordnance and there were still problems with water and power but otherwise the situation was calm.
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For days, there had been no sign of the two men who were seen in a surveillance image taken that Saturday night on West 27th Street handling a travel bag in which they found an unexploded bomb.
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Russia is not a signatory to a 2008 United Nations treaty, that bans use of cluster munitions because of their indiscriminate nature and the threat to civilians posed by unexploded bomblets, which remain a long-term threat.
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Abdullah told me that he had seen no evidence of institutional cleanup—only posters from N.G.O.s, warning about the perils of walking in areas filled with unexploded ordnance, which still regularly kills people in the Old City.
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" Velasco said in his ruling that the refuge is "littered with unexploded military (ordnance), the detritus of illegal entry into the United States, and the on-road and off-road vehicular traffic of the US Border Patrol.
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Without a promising timeframe to finally remove all unexploded bombs, some locals in Napia Village have decided to work with it - a home factory in the area turns the scraps of metal from bomb shells into spoons.
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Per the Journal, the State Department spent $200 million "on stabilization work in Syria, including removing unexploded weapons and restoring water, power and electricity" last year, and had designated $225 million for those same services this year.
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In mid-November, less than a week after the terror attacks in Paris, a local man was arrested for allegedly throwing what mosque officials say were two smoke bombs and an unexploded Molotov cocktail at the building.
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It was in the courtyard that they explained that they had discovered an unexploded I.E.D. in one of the side rooms, which they believed had been rigged to blow when we opened the door to the room.
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A United States Navy P-8 surveillance plane flying over the stricken tankers on Thursday spotted an unexploded mine attached to the hull of the Kokuka Courageous, one of the damaged ships, a Defense Department official said.
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On June 13, the US military released videos of what it alleged to be an Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps' patrol boat removing an unexploded limpet mine from a tanker in the Gulf of Oman after an attack.
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The aid worker - who spoke on condition of anonymity because her group was operating without Syrian government approval - said despite the dangers of unexploded devices or further bombs the children still ran toward the sites of attacks.
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The discovery of the unexploded ordnance prompted police to close several roads and cordon off the area in the busy Wan Chai neighborhood, with shops shuttered and nearby walkways sealed off as disposal experts examined the device.
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The United States has blamed Iran for the attack on the tankers in the Gulf of Oman, releasing video footage that it claims shows an Iranian patrol boat removing an unexploded mine from one of the vessels' hulls.
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The US is dispatching 1,000 troops to the region after the US Navy filmed the removal of what they said was an unexploded limpet mine from the hull of one of the stricken ships by the Iranian navy.
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Civilians we met report daily threats to their safety: unexploded bombs -- booby traps left by ISIS designed to kill and maim those attempting to flee -- are riddled across the city and pose an ongoing threat to innocent civilians.
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The U.S. military said black-and-white footage it filmed from a U.S. aircraft showed Iran's Guards on one of their patrol boats drawing up to the Kokuka Courageous and removing an unexploded limpet mine from its hull.
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He announced on Tuesday that Washington would provide an additional $90 million over the next three years to help Laos, heavily bombed during the Vietnam War, clear unexploded ordnance, which has killed or wounded more than 20,000 people.
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In a home in a still heavily mined village, MAG workers taught children to recognize unexploded ordnance and booby traps, which could take almost any form – a rigged fridge, a piece of pipe by the road, a toy.
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While the exact figures are still being worked out, Rhodes said the President is poised to commit enough U.S. aid during his visit to Laos to help the government eliminate the bulk of unexploded ordnance in the country.
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The signs of battle were still clear, with the charred body of a man among the tents in a camp for people displaced by the conflict, and an unexploded bomb dropped by the Nigerian air force lying nearby.
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Part of a team clearing a battlefield of unexploded matériel near South Ossetia, Mr. Kojayev was sent to collect a small, yellow-painted surveillance drone that had fluttered to earth in an apple orchard — a seemingly harmless object.
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In Laos, Mr. Obama will open ties with another reclusive communist state and will seek conciliation years after the United States dropped numerous bombs — many of which remain buried and unexploded — on the country during the Vietnam War.
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Defense officials say it could take until January before rebuilding can start, with the heart of the city littered with unexploded bombs and booby traps and buildings on the brink of collapse after months of government air strikes.
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But bomb technicians, who are trained to always treat an unexploded submunition as armed and capable of exploding, say such safety features are inherently unreliable, because mechanical and electronic systems built into the submunitions can and will fail.
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The municipality has struggled to keep pace with the return of residents after the expulsion of the Islamic State nearly a year ago, and Mosul does not have the personnel to focus on clearing bodies and unexploded ordnance.
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Three police officers, including Sina, were killed July 25 Ghor Province: seven children killed Seven children, all related, were killed when unexploded rockets left over from clashes between the Taliban and government forces went off in Dawlatyar District.
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The rifle, which is distributed in limited amounts to combat-focused US military units and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) personnel, is used only in special circumstances, such as shooting vehicles or unexploded ordnance from a safe distance.
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While digging deep in one of the busiest districts of this bustling city, they uncovered two unexploded bombs dropped during World War II. Both bombs were found in the same construction site within a span of five days.
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Just as the conflict is restricting the movements of demining crews, civilians are being killed and maimed by homemade roadside bombs planted by insurgents, as well as unexploded ordnance left behind by coalition forces around bases they abandoned.
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The 2008 policy, signed by the defense secretary at the time, Robert M. Gates, gave the Pentagon 10 years to develop and use cluster munitions that "do not result in more than 1 percent unexploded ordnance" by 2.23.
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The recovery of at least one unexploded device from a FedEx facility in San Antonio on Tuesday is significant because it will allow authorities to inspect one of the bomb-maker's creations without the need to forensically reconstruct it.
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An unexploded pressure cooker found a few blocks away -- the one inside the duffel bag taken by the two men authorities want to question -- was packed with similar components, including a cell phone that would act as a timer.
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Around 40,000 students - most of whom have been kept at home by their parents since the militants captured Mosul in 2014 - will attend around 70 schools in the coming weeks after the buildings have been checked for unexploded bombs.
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Experts estimate that there could be as many as 3,000 mines and other explosive devices littering the site, an area less than half a square mile, as well as other war detritus like unexploded rockets, mortars and artillery rounds.
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On Sunday, Amnesty International warned in a report that civilians trying to return to their homes during the slowdown in fighting faced new dangers from thousands of unexploded cluster munitions dropped during the conflict by the Saudi-led coalition.
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In one text exchange, two members discuss advising their European allies on digging up unexploded or unused WWII munitions in Germany, to repurpose as improvised explosive devices similar to those utilized by militant groups like ISIS or the Taliban.
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Since 1975, more than 40,000 Vietnamese are believed to have been killed and about 60,000 others maimed by what is known as unexploded ordnance — land mines, artillery shells, cluster bombs and the like that failed to detonate decades ago.
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On a day of diplomacy and history, Mr. Obama later flew to Laos, becoming the first sitting American president to visit this country, where children still stumble over unexploded bombs dropped by the United States during the Vietnam War.
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Bill Urban, said the video showed an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps patrol boat pulling up alongside the Kokuka Courageous, one of the stricken ships, several hours after the initial explosion, and removing an unexploded limpet mine in broad daylight.
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A few days later, when a 1,000-pound unexploded bomb was discovered in some rubble outside the gallery, the event was moved to a distant room and no one budged when the device was detonated during a Beethoven quartet.
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They could lead this Tobacco Captain across one of his own fields that were now covered in unexploded bombs, stand back, and watch to see which of his limbs blew out first as though lightning had struck a tree.
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Wastelands after the war against ISIS As the war against ISIS wanes, civilians returning to their homes in Iraq and Syria are discovering wastelands where towns once stood -- urban moonscapes of twisted metal, shattered concrete, unexploded bombs and mines.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has video showing Iran's military removing what Washington believes was an unexploded limpet mine from the side of a Japanese tanker attacked on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman, a U.S. official told Reuters.
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The U.S. military earlier released images it said showed Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) removing an unexploded mine from the Japanese-owned tanker Kokuka Courageous, which was hit by blasts along with the Norwegian-owned Front Altair on June 13.
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The U.S. military previously released images it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) removing an unexploded limpet mine from the Japanese-owned tanker Kokuka Courageous, which was hit by explosions along with the Norwegian-owned Front Altair ship on June 13.
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As a general rule with all unexploded ordnances, no one should touch them under any circumstances, and they should be reported to authorities for immediate disposal or detonation (which would suck if you left your lunch in the company break room).
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"Children have been killed, blinded, crippled -- or inadvertently caused the death of their friends -- while playing with unexploded ordnance that is negligently left behind by parties to the conflict," said Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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Breakingviews: Colombia's peace dividend won't come easy With relative calm in southwest Syria since a ceasefire was reached in early July, civil defense services in rebel-held Deraa have shifted focus to clearing unexploded cluster bombs left by air strikes.
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It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attacks, but the U.S. military released footage on Thursday which it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps removing an unexploded mine from the side of one of the stricken tankers.
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On his hands and knees, a YBS fighter from Sinjar gently loosens a patch of earth with a knife, prising out an unexploded bomb to be used against the militants who planted it there before being pushed back several kilometers.
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VIENTIANE (Reuters) - The United States announced on Tuesday it would provide an additional $90 million over the next three years to help Laos, heavily bombed during the Vietnam War, clear unexploded ordnance that has killed or injured more than 19903,000 people.
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GULU, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Francis Okello wanted to kill himself after he was blinded at the age of 12 by an unexploded bomb while digging in his family garden in northern Uganda - until he made friends with a dog.
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"We condemn this decision to reverse the long-held US commitment not to use cluster munitions that fail more than 1 percent of the time, resulting in deadly unexploded submunitions," said Mary Wareham, arms division director at Human Rights Watch.
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Ahead of his landmark visit to Laos this fall for the ASEAN summit, President Barack Obama is preparing to launch a major initiative to help Laos solve the unexploded ordnance problem once and for all, senior administration officials told CNN.
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ST PETERBURG (Reuters) - Explosives found in a residential building in St Petersburg are similar to the unexploded bomb in the city's metro, found on the day of the bombing that killed 14 people on Monday, Russian security sources said on Thursday.
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Should unexploded bombs be found by the expert squad from Lower Saxony, the western German state where Wolfsburg is located, officials would on Sunday evacuate the 700 or so residents from the Sandkamp district by the VW plant, she said.
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The United States has also contributed over $92 million since 1993 to help Vietnam address the threats posed by unexploded ordnance from the war and is supporting Vietnam's development of a peace keeping training center near Hanoi, the White House said.
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Two days after the release of an image that investigators said showed two men who had come upon a suitcase containing an unexploded bomb on a Manhattan street, the authorities said on Friday that their identities and whereabouts remained unknown.
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Late last year, researchers discovered unexploded ordnance and cluster bombs in Yemen that are believed to have been purchased from Avibras Indústria Aeroespacial, a São José dos Campos-based company that manufactures cluster rockets and the Astros multiple-launch rocket system.
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In Hong Kong, commuters are hopping on the trams known as "ding dings" in their forays, while in countries such as Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, the U.S. State Department has sent tweets warning players to beware of unexploded wartime mines.
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TREUENBRIETZEN, Germany (Reuters) - Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes as around 600 firefighters battled a blaze in a forest strewn with unexploded ammunition south of Berlin on Friday and a pall of acrid smoke hung over the city.
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Shanahan said the Pentagon's role in that effort would include sharing intelligence, as the U.S. military's Central Command did on Thursday by publicly releasing a video it said showed Iran's military removing an unexploded here from one of the tankers.
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WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - The United States has video showing Iran's military removing what Washington believes was an unexploded limpet mine from the side of a Japanese tanker attacked on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman, a U.S. official told Reuters.
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Late Thursday night, the Pentagon released a grainy video that officials said showed Iranian mariners removing an unexploded mine from the hull of one of the ships, suggesting the Iranians had placed it there and were trying to remove the evidence.
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As in Mosul, we expect I.E.D.s and unexploded munitions to complicate and challenge a recovery that is long, difficult and contested by enemies of reconciliation operating as they do here — hide in plain sight and, when they choose, fight from shadows.
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Stephen J. Townsend, the commander of the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, said Thursday that he was looking for a way to lift longstanding rules that keep secret, for 25 years, the exact coordinates of unexploded ordnance.
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Unexploded bombs are so prevalent that the city offers a free service to landowners who are seeking to build: a team of researchers will examine old aerial photos and data to determine whether a property may have once been bombed.
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Tensions with the US were heightened after the US military released video of what it said was Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps&apos personnel removing an unexploded limpet mine from a tanker in the Gulf of Oman after an attack in June.
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In Cambodia, 64,000 people have been killed or injured by unexploded ordnance since 1979 (though a substantial portion of these bombs in Cambodia were laid as landmines by the Khmer Rouge or the Cambodian government throughout the 85s and '80s).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An unexploded device, believed to be a limpet mine, was spotted on the side of one of two oil tankers attacked on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman, a U.S. official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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The domestic security issue returned to the forefront after a New York City bomb injured 29 people, a pipe bomb went off and unexploded bombs turned up in separate incidents in New Jersey, and a man stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota mall.
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As the 21990st century was beginning, a South African psychiatrist named Derek Summerfield happened to be in Cambodia conducting some research on the psychological effects of unexploded land mines — at a time when chemical antidepressants were first being marketed in the country.
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The federal criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of New York Tuesday shows that Rahimi allegedly left his fingerprints all over an unexploded pressure cooker bomb that was found four blocks away from the blast in the Chelsea district of Manhattan.
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U.S. Central Command released a statement and video on Thursday night of what the American military says depicts Iranians removing an unexploded mine from one of two targeted Japanese oil tankers attacked on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman, the Washington Post reports.
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While the effect was often grisly, the bombs left no unexploded material behind — a perk (if you can call it that) not unlike the grim benefit of minimizing civilian casualties by dropping 100 pounds of sharp metal onto the heads of your enemies.
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"Later that day, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gashti Class patrol boat approached Kokuka Courageous and was observed and recorded by a U.S. Navy MH-60 helicopter removing the unexploded limpet mine from Kokuka Courgeous," the Pentagon said in a statement Monday.
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"Children have been killed, blinded, crippled — or inadvertently caused the death of their friends — while playing with unexploded ordnance that is negligently left behind by parties to the conflict," Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said in the report.
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VIENTIANE, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The United States announced on Tuesday it would provide an additional $90 million over the next three years to help Laos clear unexploded ordnance, which have killed or injured more than 19803,000 people since war in the 1970s.
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Around 40,000 students - most of whom have been kept at home by their parents since the militants captured the city in 2014 - will attend around 70 schools in east Mosul in the coming weeks after the buildings have been checked for unexploded bombs.
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Panos Moumtzis, the UN assistant secretary general and regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria Crisis, told reporters the number of unexploded devices in Raqqa, Syria, is "extreme" and that they are in "every house, every room, every inch of the city," Reuters reports.
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The United States has indications of regime helicopters in the vicinity of the targets around this time, pictures of an unexploded chlorine barrel bomb consistent with munitions the regime has used in previous chemical attacks, and a video of chemicals being dispersed.
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Commissioner James P. O'Neill of the New York Police Department said the unexploded device was found by two state troopers as they walked down 27th Street, and other law enforcement officials said calls to 911 alerted the police to a suspicious device.
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Obama reportedly plans to acknowledge the damage a U.S. bombing campaign across the border in Vietnam caused during America's war with that country, and will announce new aid to help clean up unexploded bombs throughout the mountain villages and fields of Laos.
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The Secretary cited no evidence from intelligence sources or otherwise during the brief statement, but the Pentagon that evening offered a video showing what it described as an Iranian boat with personnel removing an unexploded mine from one of the ships struck.
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Administration officials said they would alert Congress that the money, which had already been approved, would not be spent to fix water systems, clear rubble or dig up unexploded mines in Syrian cities and towns that have been devastated by the war.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military released a video late on Thursday that it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) removing an unexploded mine from the side of a Japanese-owned oil tanker, as Washington blamed Iran for attacks rattling global oil markets.
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When the crew surveyed the damage from the first explosion, they saw a second unexploded mine attached to the hull and evacuated the ship, according to the American officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive intelligence matter.
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The U.S. military said a black-and-white video filmed from a U.S. aircraft showed Guards on one of their patrol boats drawing up to the Kokuka Courageous, after blasts struck both vessels, and removing an unexploded limpet mine from the hull.
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The company is constructing a new corporate campus across the street from its existing headquarters on land that is still being cleared of unexploded bombs from World War II. About 1,800 people will work at the complex, half of them in manufacturing.
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" Critic's take: "In its convincing portrayal of a situation where a rusty nail is as lethal as an unexploded bomb, and the few remaining inhabitants seem — much like the audience — more likely to die of stress than anything else, the movie rocks.
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Despite a global treaty that bans land mines, casualties from those weapons and other unexploded munitions lurking in current and past war zones rose sharply last year to the highest point in a decade, a monitoring group said Tuesday in its annual report.
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In front of them, at the end of the rows of cots, a woman tried to turn in her sleep, forgetting that her legs and her torso had been eaten alive when she stepped on an unexploded cluster bomb three days ago.
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The US government has long recognized the negative impact of unexploded munitions including landmines, spending roughly $3.6 billion since 1993 to help dispose of excess weapons and munitions as well as clear landmines and explosive remnants of war from some 100 countries.
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For service members outside the bomb-disposal community, finding information on how to identify unexploded submunitions and details about the particular risks they pose has become a tedious scavenger hunt, if they even know to look for that information in the first place.
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Some in the village said the boys were throwing rocks at it, others said they were trying to pick it up and sell its parts for scrap, even though they had been taught about the dangers of unexploded ordnance and mines in school.
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As Saudi Arabia recovers in the aftermath, a US defense official tells CNN that the US has a team of forensic experts on the ground to help analyze the site of the attack and unexploded missiles that did not hit their intended targets.
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When I visited Phonsavan in 221 (the capital of Xiangkhouang Province and located near the Plain of Jars), I paid a visit to the Quality of Life Association, a local civil society organization of Laotians helping other Laotians injured by unexploded bombs.
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"Unexploded or deflagrated RDX does not degrade in soil and, because of its solubility in water, migrates easily to groundwater and off military property," the report says, referring to Research Department Formula X, a powerful and very common explosive developed during WWII.
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But soon after that statement was issued, the U.S. released still images showing limpet mines attached to the Kokuka and black-and-white video footage appearing to show a Revolutionary Guard patrol boat pulling up alongside the ship and removing unexploded mines.
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WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - An unexploded device, believed to be a limpet mine, was spotted on the side of one of two oil tankers attacked on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman, a U.S. official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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"It was them that did it," Trump said on "Fox and Friends" referring to a video released by US Central Command that the US claims shows a small Iranian boat sailing up to one of the ships to remove an unexploded mine from its hull.
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After six and a half hours, we finally reached Palmyra and were immediately brought to a new Russian military camp there, built for demining crews who spent weeks ridding the ancient ruins of explosive devices and unexploded ordnance left over from the battle against ISIS.
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The video purports to show an Iranian patrol boat removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the damaged tankers, the Panama-flagged Kokuka Courageous, and the photos detail the section of the ship where the explosion occurred and the location of the malfunctioning mine.
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Already, the U.S. has blamed Iran for what it described as an attack with limpet mines on the two tankers, pointing to black-and-white footage it captured that American officials describe as Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops removing an unexploded mine from the Kokuka Courageous.
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"In the event of a breach, there is the potential in some places for a flood wave up to 14 meters high (45 feet) that could sweep up everything in its path, including people, cars, unexploded ordnance, waste and other hazardous materials," Power said.
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Additional unexploded bombs were found just blocks away in Manhattan and near a train station in Rahami's hometown of Elizabeth, N.J. It's unknown whether the suspect was working with any associates or had been in contact with people overseas before allegedly carrying out his plot.
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The U.S. spent $2 million ($17 million in today's dollars) per day for nine years to bomb Laos, but only an average of $4.2 million a year for clearance of unexploded ordnance and victims' assistance over the past 20 years, according to Legacies of War.
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"Children have been killed, blinded, crippled -- or inadvertently caused the death of their friends -- while playing with unexploded ordnance that is negligently left behind by parties to the conflict," said Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN high commissioner for human rights, in a February 2017 report.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The Iraqi city of Mosul will remain strewn with unexploded bombs for a decade, endangering a million or more civilians who want to return home following the end of three years of Islamic State occupation, a U.N. demining expert said on Wednesday.
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Fifty-eight percent of those killed or injured by unexploded bombs in Laos from 2013 to 2015 were under the age of 14, according to UK-based Mines Advisory Group (MAG), which has been helping to find and destroy UXO in Phaxay district since June.
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Despite the end of the bombing in 22014 and the end of the war in 27.4, however, life would never be normal for Laotians, for whom the prospect of stepping on an unexploded bomb dropped by the Americans decades ago could happen at any moment.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Monday released new images it says showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) removing an unexploded limpet mine from a Japanese-owned tanker that was attacked on June 13 in the Gulf of Oman, as Washington blames Tehran for the attack.
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To bolster the case, the United States military released video footage that American officers said showed an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps patrol boat pulling alongside one of the stricken ships several hours after the first explosion and removing an unexploded limpet mine in broad daylight.
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The Pentagon has created a database of every bomb they&aposve dropped since the First World WarFor the past six years, the U.S. Air Force has been compiling an exhaustive list of every bomb…Read more ReadIt's not uncommon to find unexploded bombs in Japan and elsewhere.
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NYPD police commissioner James O'Neill, on his first day on the job, said at a later news conference that the second unexploded device had been taken to Rodman's Neck, a 54-acre police training facility in the Bronx, to be "worked on" by the city's bomb squad.
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Image 2 of 2 MANILA, Philippines – Philippine officials say hundreds of displaced remain in emergency shelters as the threat of militants and unexploded bombs lingers in the ruins of a southern city that was held by Islamic State group-aligned fighters for five months last year.
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Dr. Simons was equal parts scientist and adventurer: In leading more than 90 expeditions — to Egypt, India, Iran, Libya, Madagascar, Wyoming and elsewhere — he braved badlands, weathered sandstorms, dodged unexploded World War II land mines and crawled through limestone caves in pursuit of his venerable quarry.
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On the beach, a dark torrent of sand and seawater gushed from the open end of the pipe and through a cagelike screen—whose functions included filtering out unexploded surplus munitions, which the American military dumped in the ocean following the end of the Second World War.
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Dragisa Drobnjak lost his sight when he was 11, in the sudden blast of an unexploded bomb from World War II. He graduated with a law degree in 1973, and he worked as a legal administrator for the Association of Blind in Serbia for 35 years.
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A defense lawyer for the man accused of blowing up a bomb in Chelsea last year all but conceded on Friday that her client committed the crime, instead focusing her closing arguments to jurors — and claims of innocence — on a second, unexploded device found four blocks away.
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General Adnan said he delivered the truck to the Americans, and that American investigators removed any rocket fragments and one unexploded rocket from the Iraqi side of the base, so it would be difficult for the Iraqis to conduct a deeper forensic investigation of their own.
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Through his gym, he and his students have donated thousands of dollars to the Red Cross, B.C. Children's Hospital, a Muay Thai gym in Vientiane, and the bombing victims in Laos who are still being affected by unexploded ordnance (UXO) left over from the US Air Force.
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READ: Obama to push to clear leftover Vietnam-era bombs In addition to programs in health education and energy, the U.S. has been steadily increasing its funding to help Laos eliminate an estimated 75 million unexploded cluster bombs remaining from the U.S. bombing campaign during the Vietnam war.
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The U.N., U.S. State Department, and Iraqi Directorate of Mine Action began discussions last week about producing advertisements on social media, like Facebook, to warn the approximately 3 million internally displaced persons in Iraq about the dangers of unexploded devices remaining after ISIS, State Department officials tell Axios.
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Investigators reportedly found 32 firearms, about 10,000 rounds of ammunition, cannon fuses, and homemade rockets and rocket launchers and other destructive devices, as well as five unexploded or partially exploded improvised devices — including an exploded pipe bomb and smoke grenade — that Johnston had set off in the desert.
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But Marra, who was still in writing school when "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" was published, had never been to Chechnya until after he finished a draft, and the country he describes, where unexploded shells are covered by old toilet bowls, would not be on most people's bucket list.
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"We have been always saying that we are sitting on top of an unexploded bomb, but we don't know what is going to trigger it," said Emre Tiftik, director of Research for Global Policy Initiatives at the Institute of International Finance, a Washington-based financial industry trade group.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military on Friday released a video it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the oil tankers targeted near the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting the Islamic Republic sought to remove evidence of its involvement from the scene.
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FBI investigators were searching the scene of the blast and examining remnants of the bomb, as well as an unexploded device found four blocks away and a third device that exploded in New Jersey on Saturday to see if they were connected, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said.
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Mr. Pompeo offered no evidence publicly that Iran was responsible — even though officials said that the United States has video of an Iranian patrol boat brazenly removing an unexploded mine from the hull of one of the tankers — but that did not stop him from stating an unambiguous conclusion.
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The Trump administration has blamed Iran for the attack, citing a video made from a U.S. aircraft that it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guards on patrol boats drawing up to one of the ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the blasts and removing an unexploded limpet mine.
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In addition to limited access to clean water, children living in those areas are also facing numerous daily ceasefire violations, the presence of unexploded mines, limited or no access to healthcare, education or transportation, sexual exploitation, neglect at home and deepening poverty, according to the UNICEF report published in March.
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WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Thursday released a video it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) removing an unexploded mine from the side of one of the two oil tankers attacked earlier in the day, as well as a photograph showing the apparent mine before its removal.
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Whereas some U.S. sources said they believed Iran encouraged allied militants or militia to carry out last month's attacks, the U.S. military has released a video and still images which it says show Iran's Revolutionary Guards removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the latest vessels to be targeted.
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Authorities worry that the fires could lead to the detonation of buried and long-forgotten unexploded ordnance from World War II. Reporting was contributed by Palko Karasz from London, Marc Santora from Warsaw, Aurelien Breeden and Constant Meheut from Paris, Raphael Minder from Madrid, and Christopher F. Schuetze from Berlin.
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While it's impossible to avoid the (mushroom) cloud hovering above the show — which is at La MaMa as part of the Under the Radar festival — the Split Britches co-founders Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver, who perform in "Unexploded Ordnances (UXO)" and wrote it with Hannah Maxwell, take a broader view.
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But the fact is, long after the shooting stops and the tears dry in Syria, Yemen, Libya and eastern Ukraine, civilian populations will face the additional threat of thousands of unexploded rockets and bombs, landmines and grenades embedded in the ground beneath their feet and in the foundations of their homes.
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The Pentagon had tough words for Iran on Friday as the US continues to assert its claim that Tehran was responsible for the attack on the two oil tankers in international waters after releasing video footage its says shows an Iranian patrol boat removing an unexploded mine from one of the vessels' hulls.
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Speaking at the United States Institute of Peace, Mr. McGurk said the $100 million the United States has already spent on recovery aid — used to clear away unexploded bombs and clean up giant piles of war rubble in Raqqa — was essential to allow many of the one million displaced residents to return home.
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The site, close to an outpost Commander Price was responsible for overseeing, had been used for mortar firing, but a United States military report said that no unexploded ordnance had been left on the ground and that the only dud had been cleared, leaving the cause of the blast a mystery. Mrs.
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"While casualty statistics are a useful indicator, what these numbers don't capture is the impact that unexploded bombs have on the day-to-day lives of those living in Laos, including many people who were born decades after the last bomb was dropped, " Alexandra Hiniker, Legacies of War board member, told VICE Impact.
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It serves as an ad hoc classroom, with airline seats plastered with the OMAR logo and a flat-screen TV. Around 100 students, mostly children, sit in those seats a month, where they're taught the dangers of unexploded munitions — what they look like, not to touch them, not to play with them.
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Explosions crippled two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday; the United States military released video footage that Central Command said shows a Revolutionary Guards patrol boat pulling up alongside one of the stricken ships several hours after the initial explosion, and removing an unexploded limpet mine in broad daylight.
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The United States remains the world's leading funder of humanitarian demining work around the world, providing about $154 million last year to 40 countries and more than $2.6 billion in at least 95 countries since 1993, according to the State Department's latest annual report on American efforts to eradicate unexploded remnants of war.
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While reporting on the large number of buried land mines still remaining in Vietnam's former DMZ, Istvan himself came very close to stepping on one; his guide tackled him from behind as he was walking and brought him to the ground just inches from where an unexploded mine was jutting from the earth.
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Oranienburg, a town north of Berlin heavily targeted because it housed the Nazi nuclear-weapons programme, has thus become the first municipality in Germany to search actively for unexploded ordnance—scanning risky patches of earth for magnetic resonances and cutting the speed limits of the buses travelling through them to reduce the risk of detonations.
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Quang Tri Province alone, along the border that once divided Vietnam into North and South, is said to have been more heavily bombed than all of Germany was in World War II. Unexploded yet active remains of the Vietnam War now lie in wait for incautious scrap-metal scavengers or for unsuspecting children at play.
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Or so it seems, based on a detailed timeline of Thursday's attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman provided by the U.S. Central Command, including a surveillance video of one of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps patrol boats removing an unexploded limpet mine from the hull of one of the damaged tankers.
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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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Take Giorgio Armani, who at 85 is the product of that war, a man impoverished and hungry as a child, badly burned and temporarily blinded by an accident with an unexploded shell at 9, and who emerged in adulthood a personality so driven that, even now — a billionaire many times over — he lives to work.
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It began with cavalry charges on horseback, with uniforms topped by plumed helmets, and parades through streets with flags waving and children tripping over themselves alongside soldiers — and it ended with parades of the blind and disfigured, with swaths of land so pocked with unexploded ordnance and so toxic with chemicals that they're still uninhabited 100 years later.
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The prime minister has previously said a bridge connecting the two countries across the North Channel would be a "very good" idea, despite warnings about cost and unexploded bombs dropped in the sea after World War II.Now Johnson has instructed civil servants to look at how the project can be delivered and is awaiting an official assessment on whether it is feasible.
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By the time they left 18 hours later, one civilian, three armed militants, and five members of the security forces were dead, a row of houses was reduced to rubble, an unexploded missile had been planted in a rice paddy, and more than 120 villagers had sought treatment for exposure to tear gas, alleged beatings, and in some cases mental trauma.
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A senior U.S. State Department official said Kerry would seek to set an encouraging tone in Laos by discussing increased U.S. aid, including more funds for work to dispose of unexploded U.S. ordnance left over from the Vietnam War, when Laos became one of history's most heavily bombed countries, as the United States tried to destroy communist supply lines running through it.
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Its books remain stuffed with trillions of dollars of risky derivatives — the sort of instruments that many other banks have disposed of since the 2008 financial crisis but that persist as a kind of unexploded ordnance in Deutsche Bank's accounts, threatening to inflict severe damage on the bank and the broader financial system if something were to cause them to detonate.
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It all added up to renewed questions over the President's views of wartime service as he pays his second visit to Vietnam, this time to try and extract a nuclear deal from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Unlike his past three predecessors, Trump has not weighed in at length about the US legacy here -- of agent orange, unexploded ordnance and millions dead.
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Two months before Mr. Masood plowed his vehicle into innocent people on Westminster bridge, that same bridge had to be closed while an unexploded World War II bomb was dredged up from the river, a stark reminder of the tens of thousands of Britons killed in London and other cities by German bombing raids during the Blitz from September 1940 to May 1941.
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The prime minister has reportedly asked officials to examine "where this money could come from" as well as "the risks around the project," one of which appears to be unexploded bombs dropped into the sea during World War II.Johnson first floated the idea of a Brexit bridge across the Irish Sea when he was foreign secretary in 2018 and has apparently revived it since entering Downing Street.
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Several unexploded bombs were found elsewhere, including the one in the suitcase, which was found on West 27th Street a few hours after the bomb went off four blocks away, and five others, which turned up late on Sunday near a train station in Elizabeth, N.J. After coming upon the abandoned suitcase on 27th Street, the men discovered a plastic bag inside containing a pressure cooker that had been fashioned into a bomb.
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