An explosion near San Francisco International Airport set more than a dozen homes ablaze and sent people fleeing as it spread through a residential neighbourhood, witnesses said.

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A car bomber struck at a central market in the Russian Caucasian city of Vladikavkaz, killing at least 12 people and wounding 80 others in the North Ossetian region. The bombing was committed by a sui

Five labourers working in a paper mill were killed after an explosion in a heavy machinery in Malerkotla in Punjab's Sangrur district on Saturday.

A police official in Malerkotla said the labourers

An explosion in China's restive Xinjiang region left seven people dead and another 14 injured on Thursday, state media reported.

Police have already caught a suspect at the site of the blast, which h

Officials say an explosion at a maternity hospital in Romania's capital has killed three babies, while two pregnant women and eight newborn infants sustained burns and other injuries.

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Three persons were killed and 22 others injured on Monday in an explosion at a fireworks factory in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, local authorities said. The explosion occurred on Monday mo

The governor of the Iraqi district of Niniveh survived an assassination attempt in the city of Mosul on Sunday, but two other people were killed in the explosions and nine others injured, police said.

Tehran, Aug. 4: The Iranian President, Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was unhurt on Wednesday after an explosive device, officially described as a firecracker, went off near his motorcade.

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At least 33 people, including 28 mine workers, were killed when an electric cable caught fire inside a coal shaft and an explosion rocked a shipyard in two separate incidents in China's northwest and

July 8: At least 15 people were killed on Thursday by bombs targeting the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who defied violence to take part in the final day of a Shia religious holiday, officials sai