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By John Ismay Reporting from Washington The State Department office that funds the clearance of unexploded munitions around the world has asked humanitarian demining organizations funded by the ...

Where Ukrainians use a mine-clearing vehicle, they just use people. They just walk in single file, three to four metres from each other, if one is blown up, then the medics go behind to pick up ...

which combined assault and mine- laying and mine-clearing vehicles guided by drones hovering above. The unit said it was the first documented machine-only ground assault in Ukraine's war with Russia.

But that funding has come to a grinding halt. On Saturday, the State Department said it was suspending its global mine-clearing programs for at least three months. It followed a Trump ...