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Bombings

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/ 16 November 2008

Shock at new turn in Pakistan violence

A US diplomat whose armoured vehicle was ambushed by suspected Islamic militants in Peshawar in August was unharmed.

By Saeed Shah
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/ 31 October 2008

Police detain suspects after India blasts

Indian police interrogated about a dozen people on Friday over suspected links to bombings this week in the state of Assam that claimed 76 lives.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 27 September 2008

Damascus rocked by car bomb

A car bomb exploded in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Saturday, killing 17 civilians and wounding 14, Syrian state television reported.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 17 September 2008

US embassy in Yemen hit by car bombing

The United States embassy in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, was hit by a car bombing and rocket fire on Wednesday, sparking a series of explosions.

By Hammoud Mounassar
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/ 14 September 2008

India police raid slums, relatives angry after bombs

Police officers trawled slums in India’s capital on Sunday rounding up suspects, after serial bombings in the city a day earlier killed at least 20.

By Krittivas Mukherjee and Bappa Majumdar
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/ 6 September 2008

Pakistan votes for new president

As Pakistan’s presidential election kicked off on Saturday, an earthquake shook the capital and a bombing in Peshawar killed at least 12 people.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 21 August 2008

Suicide blasts kill dozens at Pakistan arms factory

Two suicide bombers killed at least 57 people outside Pakistan’s main military arms factory on Thursday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 20 August 2008

Double bombing in Algeria kills 11

A double bombing in Algeria killed at least 11 people on Wednesday a day after an attack that killed 43 people at a military academy.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 19 August 2008

Pakistan hospital rocked by bomb blast

A bomb blast ripped through a hospital on Tuesday in a north-western Pakistani town, killing at least 20 people, police said.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 13 August 2008

Bomb on bus kills at least 16 in Lebanon

A bomb targeted a civilian bus in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Wednesday, killing at 16 people, including seven soldiers.

By Staff Reporter
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Africa
/ 7 August 2008

Kenya remembers deadly embassy bombings

Kenya on Thursday commemorated the 10th anniversary of explosions that tore through Washington’s missions in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.

By Daniel Wallis
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Africa
/ 3 August 2008

Bomb kills 15 in Somali capital

An explosion killed at least 15 people in the Somali capital on Sunday, amid a political crisis that has threatened the government’s peace deal.

By Mohamed Sheikh Nor
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/ 3 August 2008

Car bomb wounds 21 in Algeria

A car bomb exploded near a police station in a town east of Algiers on Sunday, wounding 21 people including six police officers.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 August 2008

Main Harare police station hit by blast

A suspected bomb blast at Harare’s main police station shattered windows but caused no injuries, police said on Sunday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 29 July 2008

Ten unexploded bombs found in Indian city

Police found ten unexploded bombs in the Indian city of Surat on Tuesday, three days after a series of bombs in the same state killed 45 people.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 28 July 2008

Istanbul bombs kill 17, wound 150

Seventeen people died and 150 were wounded on Sunday when two bombs exploded in a busy shopping district in Istanbul, the city’s governor said.

By Daren Butler
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/ 28 July 2008

Indian army patrols cities as Islamist group claims bombings

Cities across India were placed on alert on Sunday with the army called out to patrol ”sensitive areas” after a wave of bombings left 46 people dead.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 26 July 2008

Sixteen bombs hit India’s Ahmedabad, 29 killed

At least 16 small bombs exploded in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Saturday, killing at least 29 people and wounding 88.

By Rupam Jain Nair
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/ 23 July 2008

Nigeria militants plan to destroy oil pipelines

The main militant group in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta said on Wednesday it would attack major oil pipelines in the next 30 days.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 23 July 2008

UK bomb plotters lose appeal against conviction

Five Britons who were jailed for life for plotting al-Qaeda-inspired bomb attacks across Britain lost appeals against their convictions on Wednesday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 20 July 2008

Four blasts rock northern Spain, ETA blamed

Four bombs exploded at popular seaside resorts in Cantabria, northern Spain on Sunday, after warning calls from the Basque separatist group, ETA.

By Emma Pinedo
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/ 4 July 2008

Belarus concert blast wounds 50

About 50 people were wounded early on Friday by a home-made bomb that sprayed nuts and bolts into a crowd at an open-air concert in Belarus’s capital.

By Andrei Makhovsky
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/ 9 June 2008

Algeria bombs kill 12

Two bombs exploded on Sunday at a railway station east of Algiers, killing 12 people including a French engineer.

By Hamid Ould Ahmed
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/ 6 June 2008

Sri Lanka bus explosion kills 21 people

A roadside bomb exploded near a crowded passenger bus in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Friday, killing 21 people.

By Ranga Sirilal
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