Land Mines

Land Mine Treaty Won't Be Signed By Obama Administration

AP | DESMOND BUTLER | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international convention banning land mines. State Department spokesman Ian Ke...

U.N. Ambassador Kohona: Sri Lanka Refugee Situation Improving

Jim Luce | Posted 10.20.2009 | World


Jim Luce

Fourteen years after the civil war in Rwanda, refugees are still living in mud huts.  In Bosnia, following Balkanization, people lacked heat and ...

Iraq Land Mines Would 'Need An Army' To Clear Out

McClatchy | Posted 07.03.2009 | World


Homemade bombs go off almost every day in Iraq, usually targeting military and police convoys in cities such as Baghdad and Mosul....