Posts Tagged ‘blast’
Rescuers blast holes in stricken ship off Italy (AP)
AP – Italian naval divers on Tuesday exploded holes in the hull of a cruise ship grounded off a Tuscan island to speed the search for 29 missing people while seas were still calm. One official said there was still a “glimmer of hope” that survivors could be found.
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Blast kills Iran nuclear expert amid `covert war’ (AP)
AP – It seemed a clockwork killing: Motorcycle riders flashed by and attached a magnetic bomb onto a car carrying a nuclear scientist working at Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility. By the time the blast tore apart the silver Peugeot, the bike was blocks away, weaving through Tehran traffic after what Iran calls the latest strike in an escalating covert war.
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Syria says up to 25 killed in Damascus blast (AP)
AP – An explosion ripped through a busy intersection in the Syrian capital Friday, hitting a police bus and killing up to 25 people in what Syrian authorities said was the second suicide attack in as many weeks.
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Syria says at least 10 killed in Damascus blast (AP)
AP – Syrian TV says at least 10 people have been killed in an explosion in central Damascus, and that the death toll could rise to 25.
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Feds unveil record settlement in W.Va. mine blast (AP)
AP – The owner of a West Virginia mine where 29 men died in the deadliest U.S. coalfield accident in decades will pay $210 million, the largest settlement ever in a federal investigation of a mine disaster, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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Passive Occupy protesters take pepper spray blast (AP)
AP – Protesters sitting on the ground supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement on the campus of the University of California, Davis took a face full of pepper spray at close range from an officer in riot gear in an incident that was captured on cellphone video and spread virally across the Internet Saturday.
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Blast rocks Iranian ammunition depot killing at least 15
At least 15 people have been killed and scores more injured in two massive explosions at a Revolutionary Guard ammunition depot west of the capital Tehran, state TV reported Saturday.
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