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Kabul -
At least 26 people were killed and 41 wounded Monday after a Taliban-claimed car bomb struck a bus carrying government employees through a Shiite neighbourhood in Kabul, raising fears of sectarian violence in the Afghan capital.
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Paris -
Former French defence minister Francois Leotard has been placed under formal investigation in a probe into an arms corruption scandal dating to the 1990s, a source close to the inquiry said Tuesday.
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Damascus -
A suicide car bomber pursued by security forces blew himself up in eastern Damascus on Sunday, with a monitor reporting 18 killed in the deadliest attack to hit the Syrian capital in months.
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Damascus -
Several people were killed and others wounded on Sunday when a suicide bombing struck an eastern district of Damascus, Syrian state television reported.
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Peshawar -
At least 11 people were killed and 24 wounded on Friday when twin blasts tore through a market crowded with shoppers preparing for the Eid holidays in a mainly Shiite area of Pakistan's tribal belt.
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Kabul -
Kabul was reeling Thursday from its deadliest attack since 2001, with anguished residents burying their dead as authorities cleared away mangled wreckage and public anger mounted over the government's failure to protect citizens in the heart of the cap...
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Kabul -
At least 80 people were killed and hundreds wounded Wednesday when a massive truck bomb ripped through Kabul's diplomatic quarter, bringing carnage to the streets of the Afghan capital and blowing out windows several miles away.
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Kabul -
A massive blast rocked Kabul's diplomatic quarter during the morning rush hour on Wednesday the latest attack to hit the Afghan capital.
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Baghdad -
At least 27 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in two bombings in Baghdad, security and medical officials said on Tuesday.In the first attack, a suicide bomber struck near a popular ice cream shop overnight, killing 16 people.
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Baghdad -
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a popular Baghdad ice cream shop, killing at least eight people, security officials said on Tuesday.
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Atenas -
Greek police scrambled Friday to figure out how a letter bomb managed to wound former PM Lucas Papademos despite security checks being beefed up after a wave of similar attacks in March.
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Atenas -
Greek police on Friday sought to determine how a letter bomb wounded former prime minister Lucas Papademos despite security checks that were allegedly beefed up after a wave of similar attacks in March.
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Baghdad -
Suicide bombings at checkpoints in Baghdad and south Iraq claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens more, officials said on Saturday.
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Moscow -
Three suspects in last month's bombing in the Saint Petersburg metro have been charged in connection with a "terrorist act", Russian investigators said Thursday.
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Moscow -
Three suspects in last month's bombing in the Saint Petersburg metro have been charged in connection with a "terrorist act", Russian investigators said Thursday.
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Manila -
Philippine police believe a Shiite Muslim cleric was the likely target of explosions that killed two people in Manila, an official said Sunday, rejecting Islamic State claims of involvement.
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Manila -
Philippine police believe a Shiite Muslim cleric was the likely target of explosions that killed two people in Manila, an official said Sunday, rejecting Islamic State claims of involvement.
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Manila -
Philippine police believe a Shiite Muslim cleric was the likely target of explosions that killed two people in Manila, an official said Sunday, rejecting Islamic State claims of involvement.
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Manila -
Two explosions in the Philippine capital on Saturday night killed two people and injured six others, police said, just over a week after another blast in the same area.
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Manila -
Two explosions in the Philippine capital on Saturday night killed two people and injured six others, police said, just over a week after another blast in the same area.
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Manila -
Two explosions in the Philippine capital on Saturday night killed two people and injured six others, police said, just over a week after another blast in the same area.
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Dibai -
A group suspected of links to Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for this month's metro bombing in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, US monitor SITE Intelligence Group said Tuesday.
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Sanktpeterburg -
Russian authorities said Friday they had posthumously stripped the suspected Saint Petersburg metro suicide bomber of his citizenship.
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Sanktpeterburg -
Russian authorities said Friday they had posthumously stripped the suspected Saint Petersburg metro suicide bomber of his citizenship.
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Cairo -
Egyptian police on Tuesday arrested a man wanted for alleged involvement in twin church bombings this month claimed by the Islamic State group, an official said.
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Moscow -
Russia's FSB security service said Monday it had detained a suspected organiser of last month's bombing of the Saint Petersburg metro that killed 14 people and injured dozens more.
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Birut -
A suicide car bombing killed at least 24 people Saturday in an attack near buses for Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns, a monitor said.
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Cairo -
Egyptian Copts observed a solemn Good Friday with prayers and fasting, as the community reeled from two church bombings that killed dozens on Palm Sunday.
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Cairo -
Egypt's interior ministry said Thursday it had identified the bomber who targeted a Palm Sunday service at a Coptic Christian church in the northern city of Tanta, killing 28 people.
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Lagos -
An "alarming" number of children, most of them girls, have been used by Boko Haram as suicide bombers in the first months of 2017, UNICEF said Wednesday.
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A Palestinian boy shows a flyer dropped over Gaza City by the Israeli army urging residents to evacuate their homes, on July 16, 2014, in Gaza City Thomas Coex, AFP
A downtown photo of Jos, the Plateau State capital, north central Nigeria www.en.wikipedia.org
Angry youth riot in Nairobi's Eastleigh neighborhood Standard Media
A Palestinian woman carrying a child makes her way through debris as people inspect the remains of a house belonging to a member of the Islamist Hamas movement following an Israeli air strike on July 8, 2014 in the Gaza strip town of Khan Yunis Said Khatib, AFP
PEACEFUL: The finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon is seen 54 minutes before the first of two bombs planted by brothers Tamerlan and Dhzokhar Tsarnaev exploded, killing three and injuring more than 260. A policeman was killed a few days later during the hunt for suspects. Aaron "tango" Tang / Wikinedia Commons
A photographer captures the chaos moments after a bomb explodes at the Boston Marathon hahatango
Young relatives of four boys, all from the Bakr family, killed during Israeli shelling, cry during their funeral in Gaza City, on July 16, 2014 Mohammed Abed, AFP
A wounded baby receives treatment at al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City, on July 18, 2014 Mohammed Abed, AFP
WORSHIP: Minarets of several mosques are visible in this view of Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, taken in 2009. http://Niklas Schiffler/Wikimedia Commons
A Palestinian family leaves their house in Gaza City after it was damaged in an Israeli air strike on July 10, 2014 Mohammed Abed, AFP
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