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3 hrs ago | WAFB-TV Baton Rouge

13-year-old charged with 2nd degree murder of 5-year-old sister

TV reports there has been a possible explosion in Washington Parish early Tuesday morning.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Hammond, LA, Terrytown, LA

7 hrs ago | NBC Chicago

New Video Shows Bike Bomber Riding to Times Square

The FBI released new surveillance video that tracks the bike-riding suspect in the 2008 Times Square military recruiting station bombing from 37th Street to the device drop-off point.

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Related Topix: Manhattan, NY, New York, NY

10 hrs ago | CBS News

Suicide bomber kills 27 at Pakistani funeral

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 29 people.

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

11 hrs ago | KMIZ

Blast, fire after La. gas pipeline break

A 30-inch natural gas line ruptured Tuesday morning in eastern Louisiana, sparking an explosion and a fire, authorities said.

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15 hrs ago | The Daily Star

Explosion in Kabul coincides with Afghan security handover

In this photograph taken on March 9, 2004, then Afghan Planning Minister Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq, talks to the press in Kabul.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai

19 hrs ago | KWWL-TV Waterloo

Authorities investigate small explosion and fire at Postville plant

Allamakee County officials are investigating a small explosion that lead to a fire at a processing plant in Postville.

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Related Topix: Postville, IA, Allamakee County, IA

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Texas Tribune

Lawmakers Seek Lessons From West Explosion

A panel of House lawmakers on Monday agreed to join Gov. Rick Perry and Attorney General Greg Abbott in calling on President Obama to reconsider the denial of federal emergency aid to West, the small community still reeling from a fertilizer plant explosion in April that killed 15 people and destroyed several buildings.

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Related Topix: Rick Perry, US Governors, Abbott, TX

WIAT-TV Birmingham

Coast Guard: Tugboat sparked April barge explosion

A massive explosion at 3 a.m. EDT on one of the two barges still ablaze in the Mobile River in Mobile, Ala., on Thursday, April 25, 2013.

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Related Topix: Mobile, AL

Click2Houston

More than 1,000 911 calls received night of West explosion

Authorities say the 911 center that scrambled emergency response to the fatal fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West received more than 1,000 calls the evening of the blast.

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KCCI-TV Des Moines

Explosion, fire reported at processing plant

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Related Topix: Allamakee County, IA

The Star Online

Afghan police chief survives suicide attack

Afghan policemen inspect the site of a suicide car bomb in Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on June 17, 2013.

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Related Topix: Asia, Afghanistan, World News,

CNN

Explosion rocks military airport

Syrian rebels leave their position in the northwestern town of Maaret al-Numan on Thursday, June 13. The White House said on Thursday that the Syrian government has crossed a "red line" with its use of chemical weapons.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Syria, World News

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Globe and Mail

Montreal police arrest trio in alleged plot to rob armoured trucks

Three men in their 60s face charges after police cracked an alleged plan to rob at least one armoured truck and had to destroy a possible bomb found in a Montreal apartment.

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Bellingham Herald

Killing of 4 Shiites in Lebanon deepens tension

Masked Sunni protesters wave Islamist flags while others chant slogans at an anti-government rally in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday, April 26, 2013.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News

USA Today

Health officials to join La. blast investigation

Federal investigators are expected in south Louisiana over the weekend at the site of an explosion that killed one worker a chemical plant in Donaldsville, La.

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Related Topix: Chemicals, CF Industries, OSHA, Environmental Law, Law

Seattle Times

End of BP cleaning crews leaves questions on Gulf

Finding tar balls linked to the BP oil spill isn't difficult on some Gulf Coast beaches, but the company and the government say it isn't common enough to keep sending out the crews that patrolled the sand for three years in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.

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Related Topix: Oil Spill, Gulf Shores, AL, Baldwin County, AL

The Daily Star

Three killed by explosion at Tanzanian opposition party rally

Wounded people lie on the ground as Roman Catholic nuns run for cover after a blast at the St. Joseph Mfanyakazi Roman Catholic Church in Arusha, Tanzania Sunday, May 5, 2013.

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Religion, World News, Tanzania, South Africa

Times-Standard

Syria: Sunni extremists blow up Shiite mosque

Syrian activists say Sunni extremists have blown up a Shiite mosque in eastern Syria in yet another sign of the sectarian hatred growing in the country's civil war.

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The Nation

One killed, eight injured in two explosions on Karachi's Manghopir Road

A policeman was killed and eight others, including police and Rangers personnel, were injured in two explosions on Manghopir Road in Karachi's Pirabad area.

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Sat Jun 15, 2013

The New Zealand Herald

Keeping peace in Belfast

When President Obama comes to Belfast, he's expected to praise a country at peace and call for walls that separate Irish Catholics and British Protestants to come tumbling down.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Antrim County, Northern Ireland, Down County, Northern Ireland, Belfast County, Northern Ireland, Irish Republican Army