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Ukraine's Zelensky tears into JD Vance for 'justifying' Putin's actions as Trump makes excuses for ...

The Daily Mail 14 Apr 2025
Zelensky's comment is the latest of criticism he has aimed at the vice president ... There is an aggressor and there is a victim ... Hostilities continue in Ukraine as a Russian cluster bomb hit civilians gathering for a church service on Palm Sunday ... Gen ... .
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Dozens dead after Russian strike on the city of Sumy

The Spectator 13 Apr 2025
Two Russian missiles loaded with cluster bombs hit the city centre of Sumy this morning – on Palm Sunday, when Ukrainians traditionally go to church ahead of Easter.
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Civilian deaths in Sumy attack may force Washington to get tough with Putin

AOL 13 Apr 2025
Nine adults and nine children were killed when a Russian ballistic missile using cluster bombs struck a children’s playground in Kryvyi Rih at the end of last week ... cluster bombs had been used.
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UBS sustainable funds can invest in weapons manufacturers

Swissinfo 10 Apr 2025
The rule has now been removed, but investments in controversial weapons such as nuclear bombs, anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions continue to be prohibited ... .
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The deadliest aggression: Israel turns Gaza into testing ground for lethal American weapons

PIC 08 Apr 2025
He noted the intensive use of heavy bombs, particularly the (MK-84), which weighs 2,000 pounds (about 1,000 kilograms) ... He clarified that “these weapons include cluster bombs and bombs containing internationally banned chemical substances.
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Super Rat: the record-setting rodent sniffing out landmines and saving lives

CNN 07 Apr 2025
The US dropped 2.7 million tons of ordnance – including cluster bombs and submunitions – in a four-year carpet-bombing campaign in Cambodia. Up to a quarter of the cluster bombs failed to explode, ...
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The Baltics are building a defensive line against Russia. Can they do it fast enough?

AOL 07 Apr 2025
Some 1,000 concrete bunkers with trenches, anti-tank ditches, ammunition depots and supply shelters are part of a joint plan to fortify 600 miles of the Baltic states’ eastern borders ... Lithuania also recently quit a cluster bomb treaty ... .
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The Baltic’s secret defensive line to keep Russia out of Europe

The Daily Telegraph 07 Apr 2025
“From the first metre” is how Nato plans to fight a Russian invasion of the Baltic states ... Construction is moving at speed, but estimates suggest it could take a decade to complete ... Lithuania also abandoned a cluster bomb treaty in March ... Show comments.
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Russia’s foothold in Syria presents conundrum for Trump

The Hill 06 Apr 2025
Cluster bombs are banned by more than 100 countries because of their devastating impact, spreading multiple submunitions or bomblets over an area as large as a city block, and that can kill, maim, and also lie dormant until triggered.
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Trump’s trade war looks brutal for finance, too

Deccan Herald 05 Apr 2025
Whatever the Federal Reserve does will be painful for lenders ... and Capital One Financial Corp ... 4.</p><p>Maybe the market reactions will encourage Trump to reflect on the wisdom of lobbing cluster bombs into the world economy.
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Syrians returning home confront the terror of hidden explosives

The New Arab 27 Mar 2025
If I had known of the dangers, I wouldn’t have returned.” ... While cluster munitions, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), air-dropped bombs, and landmines are a huge problem across large parts of Syria, the northwest faces the most dire situation ... ....
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Colorado filmmaker takes viewers inside the tragedy of war in Ukraine

Denver Post 25 Mar 2025
Campbell, a University of Colorado grad who lives in Ridgway, faced other kinds of potentially fatal risks beyond his control — cluster bombs, missiles, artillery fire — on multiple trips to Ukraine since 2022 as a conflict journalist.
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Serbia never surrendered to NATO, Vucic says on 26th bombing anniversary

China.dot.org 25 Mar 2025
... the deep scars left by the bombings ... Cluster bombs and depleted uranium bombs banned by international conventions were used in the strikes, which caused widespread destruction of infrastructure.
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Why a luxury compound built by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is drawing protests

Usatoday 25 Mar 2025
... also raised concerns about several factors in NATO's conduct, including the targeting of a Belgrade TV station and the use of cluster bombs, which take a disproportionate civilian death toll.
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