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The vehicles weigh about 20 tons and have eight wheels. They move quickly while carrying soldiers and can be armed with a variety of weapons.

The move effectively returns to a 2014 policy that forbade the use of the weapons except in defense of South Korea.

Discarded metal left by decades of conflict has become a livelihood for impoverished Afghans. But many have been killed by unexploded munitions.

Departing Russian soldiers have laced large swaths of the country with buried mines and jury-rigged bombs, some hidden inside homes, to terrorize returning civilians.

Civilians near Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine are discovering a new threat: munitions that eject up to two dozen small mines that explode at intervals.

The sophisticated POM-3 mine was discovered last week by Ukrainian bomb technicians, as Russia contaminates much of the country with unexploded munitions.

Two-thirds of Cambodians are under the age of 30 — born decades after the Khmer Rouge’s totalitarian terror and the American carpet-bombing campaign.

The African giant pouched rat sniffed out more than 100 mines and other pieces of unexploded ordnance in Cambodia over five years, winning hearts and an international award.

The government blamed the Taliban for the attack on the British-American charity, the HALO Trust. The militant group denied any responsibility.

The Korean War Emptied the Town. Those Who Rebuilt It May Now Be Rewarded Hundreds of destitute families moved to a town bordering North Korea after the war. Six decades later, their dream of owning the land they helped cultivate may finally come true. Han Gi-taek on farmland in Haean, South Korea, in December. His family was among the first group of people to be relocated to the border territory after the war.Credit...Jean Chung for The New York Times Published Jan. 12, 2021Updated Jan. 15, 20...