Cluster Bombs Still Deadly 10 Years After Tajik War
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KHOST, Tajikistan, July 16  - Every spring meltwater dislodges bomblets in the mountains and sends them down steep gulleys towards inhabited areas.
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A roadside bomb probably intended for Afghan or NATO forces killed five civilians in southern Afghanistan, while militants killed six Afghans driving a convoy of trucks to a NATO base, officials said Sunday.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 29 (IPS) - The U.S. is leading efforts to resist a complete  ban on cluster bombs, human rights activists have complained.
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Officials say it will take more than a year to clear southern Lebanon of unexploded cluster bombs dropped by Israel.
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MOSCOW Sept 9 - Ten of the raiders who seized a school and took some 1,200 people hostage have been identified - and six of them came from Chechnya, where separatist insurgents have been fighting Russian forces for five years, security officials said
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KABUL : Ten people, most of them youths, were killed and an unknown number were injured when a bomb went off overnight in a religious school in Afghanistan, the US military said.
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Nearly 70 countries pledged support on Friday for an international ban on cluster bombs, but the world's biggest producers of the munitions, the United States, Russia and China, were not among them.
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A methane blast in a mineshaft in  Russia's Siberia killed at least 10 people and injured 30 on  Thursday, a government spokesman said.
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SRINAGAR -- A roadside bomb blew up an army patrol car in a predawn attack today in disputed Kashmir, killing an army major and 10 other men, police said. The blast in Wachi village, located 40 miles south of Srinagar, left a 10-foot wide crater in the road, police officer Imtiyaz Ahmed said. No one immediately claimed responsibility, but police ...
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Two people were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb blast in northeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, in the latest of a series of attacks that have killed at least 107 people in the country since 2000, police said.
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Ten years after Chechnya descended into war, and less than four months after its president was assassinated in a bomb blast, Chechens are voting for his successor Sunday in an atmosphere of violence and suspicion.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops killed 10 Islamist Taliban guerrillas in firefights in the south on Friday, the U.S. military said, while two policemen died in a roadside bomb blast in the east.
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A methane blast in a Siberian mine shaft has killed at least 10 people and injured 30, a Russian Government spokesman has said. The blast ripped through the mine as a 45-strong repair team was patching up
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The signs say "KEEP OUT" and warn of radiation contamination, but the mushroom-pickers trudge right past them carrying their pails. Eighteen years after the reactor at Chernobyl in neighboring Ukraine exploded, spewing a cloud of radiation that blew north and contaminated 22 percent of this ex-Soviet republic, activists warn of a new threat facing Belarusians: the longing to return to normal life.
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AN EXPLOSION ripped through a school in south-eastern Afghanistan, killing nine children and one adult . An Afghan official insisted the blast on Saturday evening in Paktia province was caused by a bomb,but this has not been confirmed by the military.
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Nato-led troops in southern Afghanistan say they have killed up to 10 militants in Helmand province.
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A roadside bomb killed a NATO soldier Thursday, the military alliance's fourth fatality since taking command in southern Afghanistan this week, while police backed by NATO warplanes killed 10 suspected Taliban militants, officials said.