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World
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War in Ukraine
11/21/2024 12:39:07 PM
The Pentagon will send Ukraine at least $275 million in new weapons, including an undisclosed number of antipersonnel land mines, as the Biden administration rushes to do as much as it can to help Kyiv fight back against Russia before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/20/2024 8:40:32 PM
The Biden administration will allow Ukraine to use American-supplied antipersonnel land mines to help it slow Russia’s battlefield progress in the war, the US defense secretary said Wednesday.
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Business
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Economy
9/11/2024 10:29:15 PM
The acquisition of Centamin, the owner of the Pharaoh Gold Mines NL, by AngloGold Ashanti will not affect Egypt's rights or revenues from the Sukari Gold Mine (SGM), the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources announced in a statement on Wednesday.
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Business
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Energy
6/21/2024 5:18:43 PM
Niger has revoked the operating licence of French nuclear fuel producer Orano at one of the world's biggest uranium mines, the company said Thursday, in a move that highlighted tensions between France and the African country's ruling junta.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
1/10/2024 5:05:13 PM
The amount of gold remaining in Egyptian mines amounts to at least 25 million ounces (or over 781 tons), said Nagi Farag, advisor to the minister of supply for gold affairs, during an interview with the Ala Masouliati TV show on Tuesday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
8/29/2023 10:16:19 PM
The United States on Tuesday announced a new $250 million military assistance package for Ukraine that includes equipment for clearing mines and obstacles.
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Heritage
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Walks
8/28/2023 11:40:30 AM
In the third and final part of the Exploring the Red Land series, Ahram Online visits Wadi Skeit, one of the oldest gateways of Ancient Egyptian Civilization and home to emerald mines and ancient Roman settlements.
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Business
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Economy
7/18/2023 3:27:32 PM
The United Arab Emirates signed a $1.9-billion deal with a state mining company in DR Congo to develop at least four mines in the African country's turbulent east, the Congolese presidency said Monday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/7/2023 9:27:02 PM
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine will have a catastrophic effect on locating landmines in the affected region, the Red Cross warned Wednesday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
4/8/2023 3:22:46 PM
Deep underground in southeastern Ukraine, miners work around the clock extracting coal to power the country's war effort and to provide civilians with light and heat.
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World
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International
1/31/2023 2:03:12 PM
Azerbaijan appealed Tuesday to the United Nations' highest court to urgently order Armenia to stop the laying of land mines and booby traps on Azerbaijani territory and disclose the location of such explosives that already have been placed, in the latest legal battle focused on the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/15/2022 11:22:05 AM
Beside an abandoned Russian military camp in eastern Ukraine, the body of a man lay decomposing in the grass _ a civilian who had fallen victim to a tripwire land mine set by retreating Russian forces.
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World
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Africa
8/10/2022 4:16:04 PM
At least 15 soldiers were killed in northern Burkina Faso when their vehicles hit land mines, including a rescue team that hit a second explosive device when they were rushing to help, the army said.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
7/27/2022 12:43:21 PM
Shipping companies are not rushing to export millions of tons of trapped grain out of Ukraine, despite a breakthrough deal to provide safe corridors through the Black Sea. That is because explosive mines are drifting in the waters, ship owners are assessing the risks and many still have questions over how the deal will unfold.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
6/7/2022 6:38:43 PM
Russia on Tuesday claimed to have taken control of 97% of one of the two provinces that make up Ukraine's Donbas, bringing the Kremlin closer to its goal of fully capturing the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.
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World
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Region
6/3/2022 3:23:03 PM
Nineteen civilians have been killed in Yemen during a recently renewed two-month truce, mostly by landmines or improvised explosive devices or unexploded ordnance, the UN said on Friday.
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World
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Region
5/31/2022 2:48:11 PM
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called for the International Criminal Court to investigate allegations of the use of landmines in 2019 by Russian paramilitaries fighting in Libya.
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Life & Style
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Health
4/23/2022 4:13:29 PM
Cancer is a disease of the genome, or full set of instructions for running cells, that occurs when changes in a person’s DNA cause cells to grow and divide uncontrollably
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War in Ukraine
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Military
4/2/2022 2:31:08 PM
As Russian forces pull back from Ukraine's capital region, retreating troops are creating a "catastrophic" situation for civilians by leaving mines around homes, abandoned equipment, and "even the bodies of those killed," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Saturday.
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World
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Region
11/10/2021 4:06:37 PM
Syria overtook Afghanistan last year as the country with the highest number of recorded casualties from landmines and explosive remnants of war, a monitoring group said Wednesday.
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