Adapted by Terence O'Connell from Siobhan McHugh's Minefields and Miniskirts - Australian Women and the Vietnam War. Minefields and Miniskirts brings to life a collage of true stories: the ...

Geneva: Some 400 million people around the world live and work in what are effectively minefields, at daily risk of death or maiming by cluster bombs, according to a report issued yesterday. The ...

In a moment of candour, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky said the counter-offensive has not gone exactly as planned. "We must all understand very clearly, as clearly as possible, that ...

Ukrainian sappers, who clear minefields and defuse bombs, collected explosives in a hole in order to safely detonate them later. They worked near a minefield that saw recent fighting around the ...

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced that its partners have uncovered 52 minefields in Syria since early December. According to the agency, these hazardous areas ...

Angola requires $240m (R4.48bn) from government or donor funding to clear nearly 1,000 minefields from the civil war that ended more than two decades ago, the National Mine Action Agency said. The ...