Since their widespread deployment in modern warfare, landmines have claimed close to one million lives globally. And the human cost extends far beyond this eye-popping number when you also consider ...

The government, along with two other Baltic nations and Poland, agreed last month to quit the 1997 accord that prohibits from ...

The Latvian parliament voted to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, citing ...

The Latvian parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention international treaty that bans ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s first resolution on landmines strongly endorses the long-standing international ...

Land mines and artillery shells have proven essential weapons for Ukraine, and NATO is taking note.

Canada emerged from Trump's Liberation-Day trade-policy unveil with no new tariffs other than what the White House previously announced, notably the 25% tariff on vehicles; 25% duty on steel and ...

Countries that quit the 1997 treaty - one of a series of international agreements concluded after the end of the Cold War to encourage global disarmament - will be able to start producing ...

A Finnish defence company has become one of the first to publicly express interest in manufacturing anti-personnel landmines following the government’s decision to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty.

Thavarathnam Pushparani fought on the front lines for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels against the Sri Lankan forces in its decades-long separatist war and later took to clearing the land mines on ...