Nations to form land-mine removal center
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Defense ministers from across the Americas agreed Wednesday to create an international land-mine removal center and many called for joint military missions for disaster relief and peacekeeping worldwide.
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By Mike Gorrell, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 9--Utah Mining Association President David Litvin looked at displays  for a proposed surface coal mine southwest of Bryce Canyon National Park and  saw a solution to the country's increasing demand for electricity.
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The Bush administration is banning land mines that cannot be located with metal detectors, a move designed to set an example to other nations and to protect mine hunters.
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last month, telling supporters a historic vote in four days would be a turning point for the war-torn nation. agency reported seven policemen were killed when their vehicle drove over a land mine in the southern province of Kandahar.
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More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it
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Delegates on Sunday attended the opening ceremonies of an international conference on eradicating land mines. The first five-year review of the international treaty to ban land mines
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In an age of al-Qaida, sleeper cells and the threat of nuclear terrorism, Huntsville is dusting off its Cold War manual to create the nation's most ambitious fallout-shelter plan, featuring an abandoned mine big enough for 20,000 people to take cover underground.
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KOIDU, Sierra Leone  - The battle for Sierra Leone's eastern diamond fields fuelled its 11-year civil war, but now the muddy pits are being returned to farming under a scheme funded by U.S. luxury jewelers Tiffany & Co.
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Peasants want to own their land and have organized rallies in several provinces. More are planned.
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KHEWRA, Pakistan -- At Asia's oldest salt mine, the march of technology stopped generations ago. Bare-chested laborers use hand drills and gunpowder to blast away the pink and orange rock crystal, lucky if they earn a couple of dollars a day.
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Nicaragua has found thousands of anti-personnel mines left over from its 1980s-era civil war, ending hopes of declaring the country safe from the weapons this year.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua  - Nicaragua has found  thousands of anti-personnel mines left over from its 1980s-era  civil war, ending hopes of declaring the country safe from the  weapons this year.
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LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard  - In a cavern under a remote Arctic mountain, Norway will soon begin squirreling away the world's crop seeds in case of disaster.
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More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it.
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Almost five years after a cyanide spill from a gold mine in northern Romania travelled down the Tisza river in Hungary, leaving a trail of ecological destruction in its wake, local communities in the region ...
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Iran's campaign to control the nuclear fuel cycle starts deep under this barren patch of desert, in a mine that engineers expect to start yielding uranium ore in less than two years.
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A summit on a mine-free world is scheduled for Nov. 28-Dec. 3 in Kenyan capital Nairobi, which will be the first review conference of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty or Ottawa Convention.