Posts Tagged ‘blasts’
Israel blames Iran for series of Bangkok blasts (AP)
AP – Israel accused Iran of waging a covert campaign of state terror that stretched this week from the Middle East to the heart of Asia after a bungled series of explosions led to the capture of two Iranians in Bangkok.
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Blasts hit security HQs in Syrian city Aleppo (AP)
AP – Two explosions targeted security compounds in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday, state media reported, saying 25 people were killed and 175 wounded in a major city that has so far largely stood by President Bashar Assad in the nearly 11-month-old uprising against his rule.
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Amy Winehouse’s dad blasts ‘bad taste’ fashion show
Mitch Winehouse dubbed French designer Jean Paul Gaultier’s Paris Fashion Week show, an obvious homage to singer who died last year at age 27, to be “in bad taste.”
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Panetta blasts video of Marines urinating on dead (AP)
AP – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta phoned Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Thursday and promised full investigation of a video that purports to depict four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters — a video both men condemned as deplorable.
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Al-Qaida in Iraq says it was behind Baghdad blasts (AP)
AP – An al-Qaida front group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the wave of attacks that rocked Baghdad last Thursday and killed 69 people.
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Nigerian blasts mar pope’s Christmas peace appeal (AP)
AP – Pope Benedict XVI’s Christmas plea for peace around the world has been brutally ignored in Nigeria, where an explosion claimed by Muslim radicals ripped through a Catholic church during Mass.
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Suicide bomb blasts rock Syrian capital, killing at least 40
Twin suicide car bomb blasts ripped through an upscale Damascus district Friday, targeting heavily guarded intelligence buildings and killing at least 40 people, Syrian authorities said.
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