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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko arrives at the COPE Visitor Centre, an exhibition facility on unexploded ordnance, in Vientiane on Nov. 19, 2025, during her official trip to Laos. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko arrives at the COPE Visitor Centre, an exhibition facility on unexploded ordnance, in Vientiane on Nov. 19, 2025, during her official trip to Laos. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko arrives at the COPE Visitor Centre, an exhibition facility on unexploded ordnance, in Vientiane on Nov. 19, 2025, during her official trip to Laos. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko arrives at the COPE Visitor Centre in Vientiane, an exhibition facility on unexploded ordnance, in Vientiane on Nov. 19, 2025, during her official trip to Laos. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko looks at an exhibit on cluster bombs at the COPE Visitor Centre, an education center on unexploded ordnance, in Vientiane on Nov. 19, 2025, during her official trip to Laos. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko looks at an exhibit on cluster bombs at the COPE Visitor Centre, an education center on unexploded ordnance, in Vientiane on Nov. 19, 2025, during her official trip to Laos. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko looks at an exhibit on cluster bombs at the COPE Visitor Centre, an education center on unexploded ordnance, in Vientiane on Nov. 19, 2025, during her official trip to Laos. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko looks at an exhibit on cluster bombs at the COPE Visitor Centre, an education center on unexploded ordnance, in Vientiane on Nov. 19, 2025, during her official trip to Laos. (Pool photo)

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Presentation of MinesEye demining system in Kyiv region

DEMYDIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 11, 2025 - A UXO dummy located by the MinesEye UAV-based magnetic survey system is on the ground, Demydiv village, Kyiv region, northern Ukraine. (Photo by Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform)

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Presentation of MinesEye demining system in Kyiv region

DEMYDIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 11, 2025 - A UXO dummy located by the MinesEye UAV-based magnetic survey system is on the ground, Demydiv village, Kyiv region, northern Ukraine. (Photo by Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform)

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Presentation of MinesEye demining system in Kyiv region

DEMYDIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 11, 2025 - A UXO dummy located by the MinesEye UAV-based magnetic survey system is on the ground, Demydiv village, Kyiv region, northern Ukraine. (Photo by Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform)

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The Shells of War - Syria

Piles of spent and unexploded ordnance scatter the scrapyard in northern Hama, Syria, on February 28, 2021. These remnants of conflict are repurposed into valuable scrap metal. Hassan Abu Malik, displaced from Al Lataminah, earns a livelihood dismantling and selling these materials. On November 19, 2024, Idlib, Syria. Photo by Ali Haj Suleiman/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM.

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The Shells of War - Syria

Piles of spent and unexploded ordnance scatter the scrapyard in northern Hama, Syria, on February 27, 2021. These remnants of conflict are repurposed into valuable scrap metal. Hassan Abu Malik, displaced from Al Lataminah, earns a livelihood dismantling and selling these materials. On November 19, 2024, Idlib, Syria. Photo by Ali Haj Suleiman/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM.

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Runway closed at southwest Japan airport after explosion on taxiway

MIYAZAKI, Japan, Oct. 2 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 2, 2024, shows a crater from an explosion on a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, caused by an unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II. With such bombs often discovered at the airport, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force sent an explosive ordnance disposal unit to investigate. (Kyodo)

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Runway closed at southwest Japan airport after explosion on taxiway

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 2, 2024, shows a crater from an explosion on a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, caused by an unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II. With such bombs often discovered at the airport, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force sent an explosive ordnance disposal unit to investigate.

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Runway closed at southwest Japan airport after explosion on taxiway

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 2, 2024, shows a crater from an explosion on a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, caused by an unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II. With such bombs often discovered at the airport, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force sent an explosive ordnance disposal unit to investigate.

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CAMBODIA-CHINA-AIDED MINE CLEARANCE PROJECT

(240119) -- SIEM REAP, Jan. 19, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A deminer searches for mines and unexploded ordnance at a minefield in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, Jan. 16, 2024. A China-aided mine clearance project has cleared over 100 square km land contaminated with mines and explosive remnants of war (eras) in Cambodia, benefiting some 1.5 million people, a senior government official said here on Thursday. TO GO WITH "Roundup: China-aided mine clearance project benefits 1.5 mln Cambodian people, says Cambodian senior gov't official" (Photo by Liao Hongqing/Xinhua)

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CAMBODIA-CHINA-AIDED MINE CLEARANCE PROJECT

(240119) -- SIEM REAP, Jan. 19, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A deminer searches for mines and unexploded ordnance at a minefield in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, Jan. 16, 2024. A China-aided mine clearance project has cleared over 100 square km land contaminated with mines and explosive remnants of war (eras) in Cambodia, benefiting some 1.5 million people, a senior government official said here on Thursday. TO GO WITH "Roundup: China-aided mine clearance project benefits 1.5 mln Cambodian people, says Cambodian senior gov't official" (Photo by Liao Hongqing/Xinhua)

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CAMBODIA-CHINA-AIDED MINE CLEARANCE PROJECT

(240119) -- SIEM REAP, Jan. 19, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A deminer searches for mines and unexploded ordnance at a minefield in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, Jan. 16, 2024. A China-aided mine clearance project has cleared over 100 square km land contaminated with mines and explosive remnants of war (eras) in Cambodia, benefiting some 1.5 million people, a senior government official said here on Thursday. TO GO WITH "Roundup: China-aided mine clearance project benefits 1.5 mln Cambodian people, says Cambodian senior gov't official" (Photo by Liao Hongqing/Xinhua)

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CAMBODIA-CHINA-AIDED MINE CLEARANCE PROJECT

(240119) -- SIEM REAP, Jan. 19, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A deminer searches for mines and unexploded ordnance at a minefield in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, Jan. 16, 2024. A China-aided mine clearance project has cleared over 100 square km land contaminated with mines and explosive remnants of war (eras) in Cambodia, benefiting some 1.5 million people, a senior government official said here on Thursday. TO GO WITH "Roundup: China-aided mine clearance project benefits 1.5 mln Cambodian people, says Cambodian senior gov't official" (Photo by Liao Hongqing/Xinhua)

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U.S.-left unexploded ordnance still claiming lives of Afghans

STORY: U.S.-left unexploded ordnance still claiming lives of Afghans DATELINE: Aug. 27, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:14 LOCATION: FARAH ROD, Afghanistan CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the views in Farah Rod 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Dari): KHUDAI RAHIM, Father of the victims 3. various of the views in Farah Rod 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Dari): KHUDAI RAHIM, Father of the victims 5. various of the views in Farah Rod 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Pashto): SAMIULLAH, Brother of victim 7. various of the views in Farah Rod 8. SOUNDBITE 4 (Pashto): MOHAMMAD IBRAHIM, Victim of UXO STORYLINE: Khudai Rahim, 54, is a resident of Rigretion village in Farah Rod district, Farah Province of Afghanistan. He lost two sons in blasts of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in 2021, and his third son was severely injured in a mine blast in 2022 just around their village. SOUNDBITE 1 (Dari): KHUDAI RAHIM, Father of the victims "He (the third son) found a mine. It might be a mortar mine, and he played with it. He was a child and didn't know what that was, but the o

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AFGHANISTAN-FARAH-U.S. LEFT-UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE

(230826) -- FARAH, Aug. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People walk in a village threatened by unexploded ordnance left by U.S. forces in Farah Province, Afghanistan, July 26, 2023. TO GO WITH "Feature: U.S.-left unexploded ordnance still claiming lives of Afghans" (Photo by Marshal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-FARAH-U.S. LEFT-UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE

(230826) -- FARAH, Aug. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A boy shows his belly hurt by a blast of unexploded ordnance left by U.S. forces in Farah Province, Afghanistan, July 26, 2023. TO GO WITH "Feature: U.S.-left unexploded ordnance still claiming lives of Afghans" (Photo by Marshal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-FARAH-U.S. LEFT-UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE

(230826) -- FARAH, Aug. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Children are pictured in a village threatened by unexploded ordnance left by U.S. forces in Farah Province, Afghanistan, July 26, 2023. TO GO WITH "Feature: U.S.-left unexploded ordnance still claiming lives of Afghans" (Photo by Marshal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-FARAH-U.S. LEFT-UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE

(230826) -- FARAH, Aug. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A boy is pictured in a village threatened by unexploded ordnance left by U.S. forces in Farah Province, Afghanistan, July 26, 2023. TO GO WITH "Feature: U.S.-left unexploded ordnance still claiming lives of Afghans" (Photo by Marshal/Xinhua)

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VIETNAM-VIETNAM WAR-UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE-INFLUENCE

(230717) -- HANOI, July 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 14, 2023 shows cluster bomblets left by the U.S. military during the Vietnam war at a museum in Hanoi, Vietnam. TO GO WITH "Feature: Lingering war ghosts continue to haunt Vietnamese due to U.S. cluster bombs" (Photo by Pham Dinh Duc/Xinhua)

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VIETNAM-VIETNAM WAR-UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE-INFLUENCE

(230717) -- HANOI, July 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 14, 2023 shows cluster bomblets left by the U.S. military during the Vietnam war at a museum in Hanoi, Vietnam. TO GO WITH "Feature: Lingering war ghosts continue to haunt Vietnamese due to U.S. cluster bombs" (Photo by Pham Dinh Duc/Xinhua)

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VIETNAM-VIETNAM WAR-UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE-INFLUENCE

(230717) -- HANOI, July 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 14, 2023 shows cluster bomblets left by the U.S. military during the Vietnam war at a museum in Hanoi, Vietnam. TO GO WITH "Feature: Lingering war ghosts continue to haunt Vietnamese due to U.S. cluster bombs" (Photo by Pham Dinh Duc/Xinhua)

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VIETNAM-VIETNAM WAR-UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE-INFLUENCE

(230717) -- HANOI, July 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 14, 2023 shows cluster bomblets left by the U.S. military during the Vietnam war at a museum in Hanoi, Vietnam. TO GO WITH "Feature: Lingering war ghosts continue to haunt Vietnamese due to U.S. cluster bombs" (Photo by Pham Dinh Duc/Xinhua)

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VIETNAM-VIETNAM WAR-UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE-INFLUENCE

(230717) -- HANOI, July 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 14, 2023 shows cluster bomblets left by the U.S. military during the Vietnam war at a museum in Hanoi, Vietnam. TO GO WITH "Feature: Lingering war ghosts continue to haunt Vietnamese due to U.S. cluster bombs" (Photo by Pham Dinh Duc/Xinhua)

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VIETNAM-VIETNAM WAR-UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE-INFLUENCE

(230717) -- HANOI, July 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 14, 2023 shows cluster bomblets left by the U.S. military during the Vietnam war at a museum in Hanoi, Vietnam. TO GO WITH "Feature: Lingering war ghosts continue to haunt Vietnamese due to U.S. cluster bombs" (Photo by Pham Dinh Duc/Xinhua)

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VIETNAM-VIETNAM WAR-UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE-INFLUENCE

(230717) -- HANOI, July 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 14, 2023 shows cluster bomblets left by the U.S. military during the Vietnam war at a museum in Hanoi, Vietnam. TO GO WITH "Feature: Lingering war ghosts continue to haunt Vietnamese due to U.S. cluster bombs" (Photo by Pham Dinh Duc/Xinhua)

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VIETNAM-VIETNAM WAR-UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE-INFLUENCE

(230717) -- HANOI, July 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 14, 2023 shows cluster bomblets left by the U.S. military during the Vietnam war at a museum in Hanoi, Vietnam. TO GO WITH "Feature: Lingering war ghosts continue to haunt Vietnamese due to U.S. cluster bombs" (Photo by Pham Dinh Duc/Xinhua)

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UXO continues to harm development, people's livelihood in Laos

STORY: UXO continues to harm development, people's livelihood in Laos DATELINE: July 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:03 LOCATION: Vientiane CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the COPE Visitor Center 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Lao): SYKHOUN BOUNVILAY, Retired senior diplomat of Laos 3. various of the COPE Visitor Center 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Lao): SYKHOUN BOUNVILAY, Retired senior diplomat of Laos 5. various of the COPE Visitor Center 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Lao): SYKHOUN BOUNVILAY, Retired senior diplomat of Laos 7. various of the COPE Visitor Center STORYLINE: The unexploded ordnance (UXO), mainly cluster munitions, has caused great harm to people's livelihood and remains a major challenge to Laos' socio-economic development. During an interview with Xinhua on Wednesday, Sykhoun Bounvilay, a retired senior diplomat of Laos, said that UXO has serious consequences for people's lives. SOUNDBITE 1 (Lao): SYKHOUN BOUNVILAY, Retired senior diplomat of Laos "Laos is the most heavily bombed country in the world in terms of per capita. Un

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LAOS-U.S.-CLUSTER MUNITIONS

(230712) -- VIENTIANE, July 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 11, 2023 shows orthoses and prostheses used by Lao victims from unexploded ordnance in Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise Visitor Center in Vientiane, Laos. According to a monitor, the United States dropped 413,130 tons of cluster munitions over Vietnam between 1965 and 1973. Concurrent with the Vietnam War, the United States dropped some 260 million cluster bombs on neighboring Laos, making Laos "the most heavily bombed nation in history." Laos is hence contaminated by about 80 million cluster submunitions, affecting 17 provinces and resulting in 300 casualties per year, said a Red Cross report, making the country with the world's highest level of cluster munition contamination. (Photo by Kaikeo Saiyasane/Xinhua)

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LAOS-U.S.-CLUSTER MUNITIONS

(230712) -- VIENTIANE, July 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Nov. 8, 2010 shows an unexploded ordnance clearance activity held in Xiengkhuang Province, Laos. According to a monitor, the United States dropped 413,130 tons of cluster munitions over Vietnam between 1965 and 1973. Concurrent with the Vietnam War, the United States dropped some 260 million cluster bombs on neighboring Laos, making Laos "the most heavily bombed nation in history." Laos is hence contaminated by about 80 million cluster submunitions, affecting 17 provinces and resulting in 300 casualties per year, said a Red Cross report, making the country with the world's highest level of cluster munition contamination. (Photo by Kaikeo Saiyasane/Xinhua)

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LAOS-U.S.-CLUSTER MUNITIONS

(230712) -- VIENTIANE, July 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 2, 2009 shows an unexploded ordnance clearance activity held in Xiengkhuang Province, Laos. According to a monitor, the United States dropped 413,130 tons of cluster munitions over Vietnam between 1965 and 1973. Concurrent with the Vietnam War, the United States dropped some 260 million cluster bombs on neighboring Laos, making Laos "the most heavily bombed nation in history." Laos is hence contaminated by about 80 million cluster submunitions, affecting 17 provinces and resulting in 300 casualties per year, said a Red Cross report, making the country with the world's highest level of cluster munition contamination. (Photo by Kaikeo Saiyasane/Xinhua)

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LAOS-U.S.-CLUSTER MUNITIONS

(230712) -- VIENTIANE, July 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Oct. 29, 2010 shows a victim of unexploded ordnance in Xiengkhuang Province, Laos. According to a monitor, the United States dropped 413,130 tons of cluster munitions over Vietnam between 1965 and 1973. Concurrent with the Vietnam War, the United States dropped some 260 million cluster bombs on neighboring Laos, making Laos "the most heavily bombed nation in history." Laos is hence contaminated by about 80 million cluster submunitions, affecting 17 provinces and resulting in 300 casualties per year, said a Red Cross report, making the country with the world's highest level of cluster munition contamination. (Photo by Kaikeo Saiyasane/Xinhua)

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LAOS-U.S.-CLUSTER MUNITIONS

(230712) -- VIENTIANE, July 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 11, 2023 shows orthoses and prostheses used by Lao victims from unexploded ordnance in Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise Visitor Center in Vientiane, Laos. According to a monitor, the United States dropped 413,130 tons of cluster munitions over Vietnam between 1965 and 1973. Concurrent with the Vietnam War, the United States dropped some 260 million cluster bombs on neighboring Laos, making Laos "the most heavily bombed nation in history." Laos is hence contaminated by about 80 million cluster submunitions, affecting 17 provinces and resulting in 300 casualties per year, said a Red Cross report, making the country with the world's highest level of cluster munition contamination. (Photo by Kaikeo Saiyasane/Xinhua)

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Bomb disposal work in Ukraine

A cloud of dirt rises as land mines and unexploded ordnance left behind by the Russian military are blown up by Ukrainian police in a Kyiv suburb on June 1, 2022.

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Bomb disposal work in Ukraine

Ukrainian police work to dispose of land mines and unexploded ordnance left behind by the Russian military in a Kyiv suburb on June 1, 2022.

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Bomb disposal work in Ukraine

Ukrainian police work to dispose of land mines and unexploded ordnance left behind by the Russian military in a Kyiv suburb on June 1, 2022.

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Bomb disposal work in Ukraine

Photo taken June 1, 2022, shows land mines and unexploded ordnance left behind by the Russian military in a Kyiv suburb before being buried and then blown up by Ukrainian police on June 1, 2022.

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Bomb disposal work in Ukraine

Ukrainian police work to dispose of land mines and unexploded ordnance left behind by the Russian military in a Kyiv suburb on June 1, 2022.

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Bomb disposal work in Ukraine

Ukrainian police work to dispose of land mines and unexploded ordnance left behind by the Russian military in a Kyiv suburb on June 1, 2022.

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AFGHANISTAN-KUNDUZ-BLAST

(220529) -- KUNDUZ, May 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on May 28, 2022 shows a child wounded in an unexploded ordnance explosion in Kunduz province, Afghanistan. Two children were killed and one child was seriously wounded in an unexploded ordnance explosion in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz, a local official confirmed on Saturday. (Photo by Khibar Momand/Xinhua)

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War-left U.S. aerial bombs still pose threats to Cambodian people: academic

STORY: War-left U.S. aerial bombs still pose threats to Cambodian people: academic DATELINE: May 8, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:54 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: POLITICS/MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of U.S.-made AN-M66 aerial bomb recovered from Chaktomuk River in Phnom Penh 2. various of explosive remnants of war at a museum in Siem Reap province 3. SOUNDBITE (English): JOSEPH MATTHEWS, Senior professor at the BELTEI International University in Phnom Penh STORYLINE: A Cambodian academic on Saturday said Cambodia is still suffering from the United States' unexploded ordnance and landmines, which are the legacy of the U.S.-Vietnam war 50 years ago. SOUNDBITE (English): JOSEPH MATTHEWS, Senior professor at the BELTEI International University in Phnom Penh "Every day, somewhere in Cambodia, poor people are becoming the victims of these unexploded ordnance and landmines. Most of the victims are farmers, laborers, and children accidentally stepping on these landmines in fields, forests, and abandoned buildings. I str

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Monument honors victims of 1974 WWII bomb explosion in Okinawa

Photo taken June 19, 2015, shows a monument honoring victims of a 1974 tragedy that occurred when an undetonated World War II bomb exploded near St. Matthew Kindergarten in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, killing four people and injuring 34 others. An estimated 2,000 tons of unexploded military ordnance from the war remain in Okinawa, and explosions have killed 710 people over the past 70 years since the end of the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Laotians still imperiled by unexploded bombs 40 yrs after Vietnam War

A staff member of the Lao National Unexploded Ordnance Program (UXO Lao) searches for unexploded ammunition, bombs and landmines with a detector in Xieng Khouang Province, northern Laos, on April 1, 2015. Unexploded cluster bombs and other munitions from U.S. air raids during the Vietnam War continue to threaten the daily lives of Laotians four decades after the end of the conflict. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Laotians still imperiled by unexploded bombs 40 yrs after Vietnam War

Black fumes arise during an operation by the Lao National Unexploded Ordnance Program (UXO Lao) to destroy unexploded ammunition in Xieng Khouang Province, northern Laos, on April 1, 2015. Unexploded cluster bombs and other munitions from U.S. air raids during the Vietnam War continue to threaten the daily lives of Laotians four decades after the end of the conflict. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo