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Young women swooned in Washington’s corridors of power on May 9, as Britain’s Prince Harry began a week-long tour of the United States clearly showing more interest in landmines. Squeals echoed through the halls of the Russell Senate office building on Capitol Hill as the 28-year-old bachelor inspected a photo exhibit set up by the Halo Trust, a charity favored by his late mother Princess Diana. The Halo Trust is the world’s biggest de-mining organization which, since its founding 25 years ago, has unearthed more than 1.4 million landmines in 9,800 minefields around the world. The US is the only NATO member state not to sign the 1997 Ottawa treaty banning land mines, but since President Bill Clinton’s administration it has contributed $150 million to support the Halo Trust’s work.
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