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Mohamed Hijazi squirms as his father unwraps a bandage for him. He cries and kicks his feet, but his dad manages to eventually place the bandage over his eye.  “It’s nothing,” Abu Mohamed tells his child, in a last-ditch effort to calm him down. But the boy is inconsolable.  The …

The discovery of a huge unexploded Second World War-era bomb near the tracks severed Paris’s high-speed rail links with London and Brussels on Friday, dashing weekend getaway plans and causing cascading travel disruptions. Eurostar, operator of sleek high-speed trains between the U.K. and the continent, announced the cancellation of all …

While fighting in the air may have stopped in Gaza, danger remains for Palestinians returning to parts of the war-torn territory due to unexploded bombs on the ground. They blend in with the mounds of rubble and destruction.  Efforts are underway in Gaza to locate and remove these bombs, starting …