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Cairo - The explosion of a suspected homemade bomb targeting a tram station in eastern Cairo wounded at least one person on Saturday, Egyptian security officials said.Since the military ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July, militants have stepped up...

Homs - At least 15 people were killed and 12 others wounded in a car bomb blast in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, an NGO said."At least 15 people were killed and 12 others injured in the Armenian district, which is home to mostly Christians and ...

Doha - Nine people were killed Thursday in a "gas cylinder" explosion in the Qatari capital, state television reported, airing footage of serious damage.The explosion tore through a restaurant attached to a mall in Doha, Qatar Television said.

Bangkok - At least 16 people were injured in a blast Sunday in a central Bangkok shopping district where anti-government protesters were holding a rally, the Erawan emergency centre said on its website."Sixteen people have been reported injured," the centre said...

Beirut - Lebanon's army says it is "paying the price in blood" in the fight against "terrorism", after a suicide car bombing killed two soldiers and a civilian.Shiite movement Hezbollah also condemned Saturday's attack, calling the perpetrators "the enemy of al...

Beirut - At least two people were killed on Wednesday in a blast in the southern suburbs of Beirut near an Iranian cultural centre, a security source told AFP.The area is surrounded by neighbourhoods that are strongholds of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbolla...

Kiev - Seven miners were killed and nine injured when a gas explosion ripped through a state-owned coal mine in eastern Ukraine, officials said Tuesday.The blast occurred Monday evening at a depth of around 800 metres (2,600 feet) while some 90 workers were o...

Baalbek - The United Nations urged Lebanon's feuding factions to refrain from getting involved in Syria's crisis after a suicide car bomb left at least four people dead near the border Saturday.

Baalbek - A probable suicide car bombing killed at least four people Saturday at a petrol station in Hermel, a stronghold of the Shiite movement Hezbollah, Lebanon's interior minister said.

Quetta - At least 24 Shiite pilgrims returning from Iran were killed and 31 others wounded when a bomb hit a bus in the southwest Pakistan province of Baluchistan Tuesday, officials said.