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A second worker has died from injuries suffered in a reported gas incident at Woodland Pulp paper mill in Baileyville, Maine, United States, on 27 January. The worker’s identity has not been released though the mill confirmed he was an employee of the facility, WABI-TV reports. The incident
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At least two people, including a child, have been killed and 17 others injured in an explosion near Miryan police station in Bannu district in northwestern Pakistan on Monday 16 February. This was reported by the Pakistani outlet, Dawn. According to a statement by the police, the bomb was a
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Poland has announced that they will be withdrawing on 20 February from the Ottawa Convention on banning the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines, Polish Radio reported on 16 February. Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska, deputy head of the parliamentary National Defence Committee, is reported to have said that
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At least 11 people in Nigeria have died after an IED that they were transporting to carry out an attack, detonated. The incident occurred near Babbar Doka village in the northwestern Zamfara state, "amid a resurgence of banditry and the increasing use of explosives against security forces in the
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Czech firefighters recorded elevated levels of radioactivity from an unspecified object inside a building at Charles University in Prague’s Libeň district on Saturday evening, 14 February. According to Radio Prague International, emergency services were alerted by an anonymous caller who reported a suspicious item at the university premises. The
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A mysterious gas leaked from a cylinder at a scrap dealer's shop on Saturday 7 February near Jammu Airport in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir state. According to local media reports, several residents of Rani Bagh suffered from breathlessness following the sudden leakage of gas from an abandoned
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The government of the United Kingdom has confirmed that the prominent Russian opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, who died in prison in 2024, was likely killed by a deadly toxin found in the skin of Ecuador dart frogs. In a statement released on Saturday 14 February, the UK government wrote that
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The World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS) and the African Centre for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS) have agreed to strengthen their cooperation through a memorandum of understanding, it was announced on 29 January. "As countries in Africa harness the benefits of nuclear technology for healthcare, agriculture, industry and
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A fire at a pesticide warehouse in Tangerang City, Indonesia, has triggered toxic runoff into the Jalantreng and Cisadane rivers, causing mass fish die-off and disrupting clean water supplies. The fire broke out at a pesticide warehouse owned by PT Biotek Saranatama in Tekno Park, Tangerang, west of Jakarta,
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At least one person was killed and three others, including an army official, were injured when their vehicle was struck by an IED in northern Pakistan on Thursday 12 February. A vehicle belonging to the military engineering and construction organisation, the Frontier Works Organization, was hit by an IED in
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The US Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on Tuesday 10 February that crews at the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington, have started retrieving radioactive waste from Tank A-106, a one-million-gallon underground storage tank built in the 1950s. The Hanford Site is a decommissioned
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The US state of New Mexico has issued a number of actions to formally rebuke the federal US Department of Energy for "failing to prioritise the cleanup of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s 'legacy waste'". In a statement released on Wednesday 11 February, the New Mexico