In October 2019, Mariam, a ten-year-old girl from Taiz, Yemen, went out with her sister to collect some firewood for her mother. While she was searching, she stepped on a landmine and the blast sent her into the air. She was immediately transferred t...

By AFPRescuers were working Sunday to reach 18 people trapped underground after a cave-in at a gold mine in northwest China's Xinjiang region, state media reported.A total of 40 people were working underground at the mine in Yining county, about 100...

By AFPRussia's use of landmines in Ukraine, including newly produced models, threatens to overturn progress made on the issue over the past 25 years, a monitor said Thursday.Moscow has been developing new anti-personnel mines and has used ones made a...

Rescuers desperately searched for signs of life on Saturday after a methane blast at a coal mine in northern Turkey killed at least 28 people and trapped dozens of others hundreds of metres underground.Updating the death toll, Health Minister Fahrett...

Family members from three generations were huddled on the back of a pickup truck for what started as a joyful ride through the Syrian countryside for Abdulaziz al-Oqab and his relatives.They were planning to sample the long-forgotten peacetime pleasu...

Gas now flows to Romania from a new Black Sea platform operating in waters where mines and warships have been spotted.The dangerous reminders of the war raging nearby in Ukraine underscore Romania's determination to cut its reliance on Russian natura...