Suicide Attacks: The Car Bombings Continue

The car bombings continue:"At least 24 people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, police said. At least two car bombs and a mortar in quick succession killed 18 people and injured dozens more at a busy market in a southern mainly Shia...

Five Killed in Casablanca Blasts

UPDATE: An additional suspect and one police officer are confirmed killed in today's explosion, as per the BBC: "A police raid on suspected militants in the Moroccan city of Casablanca has set off gunfights and suicide bombings that have left at least five men dead. One of...

Italian Woman Finds Live Grenade in Her Groceries

While Boston's cops are busy detonating stuff, Bostonian news sites are reporting that other cities' cops get to blow stuff up, too... In this case, however, a Neapolitan septuagenarian's sack of potatoes really did contain an explosive device. Following the story, I was...

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007

"#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media Sources: Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005 Title: “Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story” Author: Elliot D....

Grandmother a suicide bomber

"Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians, including a top militant commander, in raids in northern Gaza yesterday while a 57-year-old grandmother blew herself up near soldiers. The army said soldiers spotted the woman approaching them with an explosive device near the...

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Police, family among 13 dead in attacks across Baghdad

"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Laborers, police officers and a family were among at least 13 people killed Wednesday across Baghdad, police said. Nearly 30 others were wounded."

North Korea detonates nuke, joins planet's most dangerous club

"Pyongyang, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of - North Korea became the ninth nuclear power at 10:35 local time (0135 GMT) on Monday when it detonated an undergound nuclear test. Their success is the world's...

Bomb blast kills 6 outside Baghdad hotel (AP)

" 1 hour, 11 minutes ago BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb planted in a mini van detonated Sunday outside a hotel in downtown Baghdad, killing at least six people and injuring 16, police and witnesses said. The bomb detonated shortly before noon outside the Palestine Hotel near a...

Car bombing south of Baghdad kills 53

" BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber detonated explosives in a crowd of laborers gathered across the street from a major Shiite shrine in southern Iraq, killing at least 53 people and wounding 105, officials...

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