A rat named Ronin has set a new Guinness World Record by detecting 109 land mines in Cambodia over the last four years. Ronin is an African giant pouched rat who works with APOPO, a nonprofit that ...

The first recorded use of pressure-activated land mines was by the Confederate army in 1862 during the Civil War. Union soldiers thought they were barbarous, cowardly weapons — but by the 20th ...

IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Land mines and other unexploded remnants of war continue to pose a deadly threat across Syria, causing widespread casualties and long-term harm. Since the fall of Bashar ...

According to Smithsonian, the 5-year-old rat named Ronin found 109 land mines to date in the small community of Sror Aem, Preah Vihear, Cambodia, and 15 more unexploded weapons from August 2021 to ...

Ronin the African giant pouched rat is one of more than 100 rats trained by a Belgian nonprofit to sniff out deadly land mines. Guinness World Records / APOPO Former conflict zones are littered ...

A rat named Ronin has set a new record by detecting over 100 landmines in Cambodia since August 2021, surpassing the previous record held by Magawa. Trained by Belgian organization APOPO ...

European countries bordering Russia are taking steps to leave a key land mine treaty. Land mines have seen widespread and aggressive use in the Ukraine war. NGOs are concerned about the impact of ...

World-renowned for their experience with clearing land mines after the Balkan wars of the 1990s, a team of demining experts from Bosnia are in Ukraine helping to train sappers. Some 35,000 square ...

HELSINKI, April 4 (Reuters) - Finnish technology conglomerate Insta said on Friday it is interested in producing anti-personnel land mines in Finland once the Finnish government leaves the ...

THAT JUVENILE IS NOW FACING GUN CHARGES. NEW. THIS MORNING, TWO MEN FACING CHARGES AFTER POLICE SAY ONE OF THE MEN SHOT AN AIRSOFT RIFLE IN THE PARKING LOT OF A CUMBERLAND COUNTY HOTEL.

A Gulfport Seabee shot his three children with an airsoft gun to punish and silence them, according to police testimony. Nicholas Harold Clark, 35, of Gulfport, is jailed in Harrison County on ...