Bacteria make light work of detecting landmines
Bacteria modified to glow green in the presence of explosives could eventually provide developing countries with a cheap, easy-to-use tool for detecting landmines.
SciDev.net,
Mon Nov 30 08:21:37 PST 2009
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Textron's networked landmines bring in $41M
Textron Defense Systems, in conjunction with a Minnesota company, has landed $41.1 million from the U.S. Army for networked landmines.
Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology,
Mon Nov 30 07:00:28 PST 2009
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Minister heads to Colombia for summit on landmines
Disarmament Minister Georgina te Heuheu heads to Colombia to meet with representatives from more than 100 countries for a global summit on landmines.
NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News,
Sun Nov 29 16:47:42 PST 2009
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Global summit focuses on landmines
Disarmament Minister Georgina te Heuheu leaves today for Cartagena, Colombia to take part in a global summit on landmines. Participants will review the international Treaty that banned the ...
Scoop.co.nz,
Sun Nov 29 15:34:00 PST 2009
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PREVIEW: Landmines hold horrors for innocents, soldiers
Bogota - Zenaida Rueda, a 36-year-old deserter from the rebel group FARC, experienced first hand the horrors of the landmines laid by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia she once bel...
EARTHtimes.org,
Sat Nov 28 18:01:40 PST 2009
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Armand Assante - Assante Puts Landmines Documentary On Hold
Movie star ARMAND ASSANTE has been forced to give up making his landmine documentary - because the project was bankrupting him.The Judge Dredd star was funding the...
ContactMusic,
Sun Nov 29 18:45:39 PST 2009
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Nations gather to review landmines
Representatives from more than 100 nations are gathering in Colombia to review a UN treaty banning anti-personnel mines, which killed more than 5000 people in 2008 alone.
The Age,
Sun Nov 29 04:56:16 PST 2009
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Summit on a mine-free world opens in Colombia
Bogota- The push to free the world of anti-personnel landmines gained steam Monday in Colombia as representatives of 156 countries met in the picturesque seaside town of Cartagena to review...
EARTHtimes.org,
Mon Nov 30 08:47:10 PST 2009
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Press Releases: The United States is a World Leader in Humanitarian Mine Action
The United States is a World Leader in Humanitarian Mine Action Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC November 30, 2009 The United States shares common cause with nations who are working t...
U.S. Department of State,
Mon Nov 30 07:12:44 PST 2009
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LANDMINE-FREE
Rwanda will this week become the first country to be officially declared free of landmines after Britain helped a clearance effort.
Daily Mirror,
Sun Nov 29 23:21:34 PST 2009
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THE story of Rwandans clearing their country of landmines is to be told in a locally-produced documentary film. Spike Productions
Guernsey Press and Star,
Mon Nov 30 03:44:26 PST 2009
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THE story of Rwandans clearing their country of landmines is to be told in a locally-produced documentary film.
Guernsey Press and Star,
Mon Nov 30 03:44:36 PST 2009
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U.S. landmines policy still under review
A review of U.S. landmines policy is ongoing and will take awhile to complete, a State Department spokesman said on Wednesday, clarifying an earlier comment that the Obama administration ha...
Reuters via Yahoo! News,
Wed Nov 25 16:01:57 PST 2009
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U.S. will not join treaty banning landmines
President Barack Obama has no plans to join a global treaty banning landmines because a policy review found the United States could not meet its security commitments without them, the State...
Reuters via Yahoo! News,
Tue Nov 24 19:40:35 PST 2009
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U.S. landmines policy still under review -official
Source: Reuters * Old policy rejecting Mine Ban Treaty remains in force * U.S. observers to attend treaty review for first time By David Alexander WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - A review of...
AlertNet,
Wed Nov 25 16:23:49 PST 2009
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U.S. will not join treaty banning landmines: spokesman
President Barack Obama has no plans to join a global treaty banning landmines because a policy review found the United States could not meet its security commitments without the weapons, th...
Reuters via Yahoo! News,
Tue Nov 24 15:26:23 PST 2009
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US will not join treaty on landmines
US President Barack Obama has no plans to join a global treaty banning landmines because a policy review found the US could not meet its security commitments without them, the State Departm...
Taipei Times,
Wed Nov 25 08:17:54 PST 2009
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Q+A: The Mine Ban Treaty - successes and challenges
Source: AlertNet BOGOTA/LONDON (AlertNet) - Over 1,000 delegates from more than 100 countries and dozens of non-governmental organisations are meeting in Cartagena in Colombia from Sunday t...
AlertNet,
Mon Nov 30 02:53:59 PST 2009
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Brown confirms 500 more troops for Afghanistan - Summary
London - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday that 500 more troops will be sent to Afghanistan imminently, taking overall British troop levels to over 10,000, including special forces. ....
EARTHtimes.org,
Mon Nov 30 08:47:39 PST 2009
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