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Việt Nam-US war legacy projects recently resumed amid funding cuts: Foreign ministry

Vietnam News 20 Mar 2025
Quảng Trị Province has approximately 62,000ha contaminated with cluster munitions. An area of over 37,000ha has already been cleared, with more than 830,000 bombs and other unexploded ordnance safely removed ...VNA/VNS. .
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Russia rejects US-backed truce proposal, escalates attacks on Ukraine

NewstalkZB 19 Mar 2025
Starmer criticises Putin’s stance ‘Apocalyptic’ cluster bomb attack stuns east Ukraine locals Donald Trump threatens new ‘large-scale’ sanctions on Russia ‘You’re gambling with WW3’.
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Poland, Baltics signal plans to withdraw from landmines treaty

Knoxville Daily Sun 19 Mar 2025
Lithuania earlier this month quit another treaty banning cluster bombs citing security concerns over the threat from Moscow, sparking outrage from human rights watchdogs ... More from this section. +3. Ghostly lunar sunsets shot by private lander ... +6 ... ....
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Poland and Baltic states lift bans on cluster bombs and mines

The Daily Telegraph 18 Mar 2025
Poland and the Baltic states have announced they are withdrawing from the global ban on anti-personnel mines, over the growing threat from Russia ... “Military threats to Nato member states bordering Russia and Belarus have significantly increased ... email.
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Tokyo was filled with charred corpses after US firebombing. Survivors want compensation

Penn Live 17 Mar 2025
On the night of March 10, 1945, hundreds of B-29s raided Tokyo, dumping cluster bombs with napalm specially designed with sticky oil to destroy traditional Japanese-style wood and paper homes in the crowded “shitamachi” downtown neighborhoods.
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'Precarious': Expert warns Ukraine unlikely to see ceasefire anytime soon

NewstalkZB 15 Mar 2025
LISTEN ABOVE ‘Not serious about peace’. Starmer criticises Putin’s stance ‘Apocalyptic’ cluster bomb attack stuns east Ukraine locals Donald Trump threatens new ‘large-scale’ sanctions on Russia Watch ... .
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Syria: 80 civilians killed by war remnants in four months

Enab Baladi 15 Mar 2025
... carried out 1,229 removal operations, during which they disposed of 1,813 unexploded munitions, a third of which were cluster bombs, and the number of confirmed contaminated areas amounted to 362.
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‘Not serious about peace’: Starmer criticises Putin’s stance

NewstalkZB 15 Mar 2025
Keir Starmer stated Russia must agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine, emphasising Putin’s role in delaying peace ... ‘Apocalyptic’ cluster bomb attack stuns east Ukraine locals Donald Trump threatens new ‘large-scale’ sanctions on Russia Watch.
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The Trump administration faces a fight over ‘biggest’ environmental deregulatory action in US history

The Verge 13 Mar 2025
“This is a cluster bomb”. Advocacy groups, unsurprisingly, are already promising a fight ... “This is a cluster bomb of moves to demolish a broad swath of environmental regulations ... and more,” he said ... The agency has already fired hundreds of staffers.
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Russia unlikely to agree to proposed temporary ceasefire, expert warns

NewstalkZB 12 Mar 2025
LISTEN ABOVE ‘Apocalyptic’ cluster bomb attack stuns east Ukraine locals Donald Trump threatens new ‘large-scale’ sanctions on Russia ‘You’re gambling with WW3... .
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Lithuania retreats from cluster munitions pact

MENA FN 11 Mar 2025
(MENAFN) Lithuania has officially withdrawn from the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), a treaty that prohibits the use, production, and stockpiling of cluster bombs. The decision, approved ... .
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Tokyo was filled with charred corpses after US firebombing 80 years ago. Survivors want compensation

Chatanooga Times Free Press 11 Mar 2025
On the night of March 10, 1945, hundreds of B-29s raided Tokyo, dumping cluster bombs with napalm specially designed with sticky oil to destroy traditional Japanese-style wood and paper homes in the crowded “shitamachi” downtown neighborhoods.
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Campaigner against arms industry is board member at major pension fund

The Daily Telegraph 10 Mar 2025
Ms Howarth first joined Nest’s board in November 2024, having previously praised the pensions scheme’s own efforts to avoid investing in cluster bombs ... has no holdings in cluster bomb makers.
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Eighty years since the Tokyo firebombing, survivors are still awaiting recognition

The Observer 10 Mar 2025
The B-29s dumped cluster bombs with napalm specially designed with sticky oil to destroy traditional Japanese-style wood-and-paper homes in the crowded Shitamachi downtown neighbourhoods. The bombs ...
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Remembering US firebombing of Tokyo

Taipei Times 10 Mar 2025
On the night of March 10, 1945, hundreds of B-29s raided Tokyo, dumping cluster bombs with napalm specially designed with sticky oil to destroy traditional Japanese-style wood and paper homes in the crowded shitamachi downtown neighborhoods.
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