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NEWS ABOUT: land mines

land mines stories: 8 news summaries

 2 US Soldiers 
 Killed in Philippines 

Land mine triggers first US casualties in the nation since 2002

Sep 29, 09 3:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two American soldiers and a Filipino marine were killed when their vehicle rolled over a land mine in the southern Philippines today. The men were fetching supplies for a school when their vehicle was hit, officials say.  The American soldiers, part of a 300-strong force helping the Filipino army... More »

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War on Terror • US military • US troops • land mines • al-Qaeda

(Newser) - A 48-year-old Thai elephant who stepped on a landmine 10 years ago got fitted for permanent artificial leg today, the AP reports. Motola, who's become a cause celebré for the plight of elephants worldwide, got measured for the new limb at an elephant hospital in Thailand. Until now she’s... More »

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Thailand • prosthesis • land mines • elephant

Cambodia Bans 'Miss Landmine' Beauty Pageant

Government sees
insult; organizers aimed to promote awareness

Aug 3, 09 5:50 PM CDT
(AP) - The Cambodian government said today it will not allow a "Miss Landmine" beauty pageant to take place later this week, calling it an insult to the disabled. "The land mine beauty contest would make a mockery of Cambodia's land mine victims," a government spokesman said. "The... More »

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Cambodia • disability • beauty pageant • land mines • Angola • Miss Landmine • Morten Traavik

(Newser) - Move over, Rover: Man has a new best friend that is helping to combat two scourges plaguing the developing world. Rats, normally reviled as filthy vermin, are sniffing out land mines and detecting tuberculosis bacteria. "Rats are usually considered pests or enemies of humanity,” said one Mozambican handler,... More »

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Africa • United Nations • Mozambique • Tanzania • rats • land mines • tuberculosis • dog

 Scars of War Remain
 for Laotian Farmers 

Land littered with bombs makes subsistence farming a more dire proposition

Jun 11, 08 3:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - As if surviving as a farmer in the developing world wasn't hard enough, for those in Laos there is an extra—often deadly—complication. The US littered the Southeast Asian nation with 2 million tons of explosives during the Vietnam War, one-third of which remain precariously unexploded, and responsible for... More »

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farming • Laos • land mines • Third World

 Cindy McCain's 
 Soft Talk Masks 
 Deep Resolve  

GOP candidate's wife is quiet on trail, crusader off it

Apr 15, 08 2:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cindy McCain is reserved on the campaign trail—a marked contrast to the sometimes-pugilistic style of husband John—but outside the public eye she has been a “one-woman philanthropic operation,” reports the Chicago Tribune in a profile. The would-be first lady has brought medical relief missions to Rwanda... More »

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John McCain • Darfur • painkiller • land mines • stroke • Cindy McCain • Iraq war

WWII Mines Block Egypt's Access to Oil

4.8B barrels of crude
lie under 22M mines, shells in desert

Mar 12, 08 6:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Millions of land mines and unexploded artillery shells left over from World War II are hampering Egypt's efforts to get at a treasure trove of oil and gas beneath the desert, der Spiegel reports. The ordnance is an unwelcome reminder of the North African conflict between Brits and Erwin Rommel’... More »

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oil • OPEC • Egypt • World War II • natural resources • land mines • natural gas • Erwin Rommel

Afghan Refugees Flooding Home, Some Forced From Camps

Mass repatriation may be new disaster

Aug 20, 07 4:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Afghan refugees are returning to their post-Taliban nation by the hundreds of thousands, and there are few resources to support them. Much of the repatriation is voluntary, the BBC reports, with newfound stability attracting Afghanis who fled as long as 25 years ago; others have been forced out of Pakistani... More »

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Afghanistan • Pakistan • refugee camp • repatriation • land mines • refugee

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