Ukraine looks to withdraw from a major international treaty on anti-personnel landmines to bolster its defense on the battlefield, where its troops are trying to hold off Russia's intensifying ...

PARIS — The U.S. activist Jody Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for leading the global campaign to ban anti-personnel mines. That same year, the signing of the Ottawa Treaty ...

Finland is leaving the Ottawa Treaty, which bans anti- personnel land mines, becoming the fifth European country to do so. The Finnish Parliament approved this decision on Thursday by a vote of ...

Eastern flank Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene welcomed Finland's plan to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty, saying in a Facebook post it was "a clear sign that the region is serious about ...

Finland is to follow several of its NATO neighbours and exit the Ottawa Treaty banning the use of anti-personnel landmines, following a vote in the Helsinki parliament on Thursday, state ...

OTTAWA--America's chief envoy in Ottawa said the Canadian government's retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. and decisions to either ban or reconsider the purchase of U.S. goods threaten the future of ...

She told CNN that the arguments for banning landmines have not changed since the Ottawa Treaty was formed in the 1990s. “Once it’s in the ground, it’s a danger.

The Ottawa Treaty prohibits the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel landmines. More than 160 countries and territories are party to the treaty, including Ukraine.

NATO member Finland said on Tuesday the Nordic country plans to quit the Ottawa Treaty, a global convention banning anti-personnel land mines, citing a long-term danger from neighbouring Russia to ...

Canadian officials negotiating a global treaty on plastic pollution at the United Nations say they didn't push other ...

The final round of negotiations for the Global Plastics Treaty (INC-5.2) will take place next week in Switzerland.