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2 hrs ago | CBC

Pakistan bombing kills anti-Taliban mayor

A suicide bombing in northwestern Pakistan left 12 people dead and at least 25 others injured on Sunday, officials said.

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Related Topix: Pakistan, World News

6 hrs ago | Military-World

For Marines in Afghanistan, IEDs Are a Constant Fear

There are few songs as mournful and haunting as Taps played for a fallen warrior, and on an isolated combat outpost in southern Afghanistan it has been sounded for David Baker, a 22-year-old Marine lance corporal who was just six weeks short of going home when he was killed in an explosion.

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Related Topix: Asia, Afghanistan, World News, Agriculture, Science

Sat Nov 07, 2009

ClipSyndicate

Science explains shock wave from refinery explosion

SALT LAKE CITY - A science experiment shows how the homes in Woods Cross were damaged on Wednesday by the blast at the Silver Eagle Refinery.

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Related Topix: Salt Lake City Metro, Salt Lake City, UT, Woods Cross, UT, Video

Irish Examiner

Viable bomb made safe in Dublin

An army bomb disposal team has made safe a viable device from outside a house in Dublin.

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Independent Online

Explosion claims three lives

Ramadi, Iraq - Three people were killed in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Thursday in an explosion that quickly followed a bomb targeting a senior police officer's car, security and health officials said.

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Denton Record-Chronicle

2 people injured in fire at Dallas apartment complex

An early-morning explosion at a Dallas apartment complex today injured two people and destroyed a building containing the laundry room and offices.

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Related Topix: Dallas, TX

UC Berkeley NewsCenter

Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star

An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.

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Related Topix: UC Berkeley, Astronomy, Science, California

Fri Nov 06, 2009

The Journal Newspaper Online

Whitley Bay soldier killed by roadside bomb

THE moment a special forces soldier was killed by a Taliban booby trap whilst protecting "impatient" Afghan police was recounted at an inquest.

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Related Topix: Tyne and Wear County, England, United Kingdom, Northumberland County, England, World News, Asia, Afghanistan

WCPO-TV9

Explosion At Rozzi's Fireworks Forces Evacuations

SYMMES TWP., Ohio -- An investigation is underway after an explosion at Rozzi's fireworks in Symmes Township sent two people to the hospital Friday afternoon.

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Tvnz.co.nz

Two Southland teens severely burned in garage gas explosion

Two Southland teenagers are being treated in Dunedin Hospital for severe burns after an explosion that blew the doors off the car they were in inside a garage.

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KansasCity.com

Overnight explosion at AG Processing plant rocks St. Joseph

A massive blast at a production plant in St. Joseph rocked part of the city but initial reports were that everyone at the plant escaped injury.KQTV reports that the explosion at the AG Processing Inc.

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WHIO-AM Dayton

OSHA wants more fines in West Carrollton explosion/fire

More fines are now suggested for alleged safety violations at a West Carrollton facility that blew up back in May.

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Related Topix: OSHA, West Carrollton, OH, Dayton, OH

Naples Daily News

VIDEO: Four men injured, two seriously, in flash fire at Bonita Springs Utilities plant

Four men suffered burns and chemical injuries when a flash fire sparked during the trial of a new wastewater measuring tool at a Bonita Springs Utilities plant on Thursday evening.

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Related Topix: OSHA

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Gulf Times

Rebels blow up girls school

Children collect stationery from the debris of a girls school after it was bombed by alleged Taliban militants in the Khyber tribal region of Pakistan Militants blew up a girls' school in Pakistan's Khyber district yesterday, the second such attack in the lawless region on the Afghan border in four days, officials said.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan,

The York Daily Record

2 get prison, house arrest in fatal Pa. mine blast

The operator of an eastern Pennsylvania coal mine has been sentenced to prison and the owner to house arrest in connection with a mine explosion that killed a man three years ago.

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Related Topix: Donaldson, PA

Andover Advertiser

Soldier killed in Afghanistan blast

A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan. The serviceman, from 3rd Battalion The Rifles, died near Sangin in Helmand Province on Thursday morning, said the Ministry of Defence.

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Related Topix: Asia, Afghanistan, World News

Log Cabin Democrat

3 injured, home destroyed in Texas gas line blast

Flames blazed more than 400 feet high above a natural gas line explosion that rocked Bushland, Texas about 1 a.m. Thursday Nov.

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Related Topix: Bushland, TX, Amarillo, TX, Potter County, TX

South Asian Media Net

Troops advance towards Makeen

WANA/PESHAWAR: Security forces advanced towards Janta on Tuesday after securing areas around the Taliban stronghold of Srarogha in the South Waziristan Agency, where 21 militants and one soldier were reported dead by the ISPR.

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Related Topix: Pakistan, World News

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Detroit Free Press

4 MSU students charged in blast

An explosive device detonated in an East Lansing yard late Sunday -- allegedly by four Michigan State University freshmen -- was a 3-inch mortar powerful enough to have killed somebody, an MSU police spokeswoman said.

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Related Topix: Lansing Metro, East Lansing, MI, Michigan State University

Deseret News

3 Woods Cross homes uninhabitable

An explosion Wednesday morning at a refinery shook homes throughout south Davis County and left three homes uninhabitable due to structural damage.

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Related Topix: Woods Cross, UT, Davis County, UT, North Salt Lake, UT, Fire

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