KABUL — At least five Afghan police officers and two civilians were killed Sunday when a car bomb was detonated outside the main police headquarters in Kandahar, officials said. Another 19 people, six of them police officers, were wounded in the blast, provincial officials said. Children were also among the victims. Read full article > >

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PARIS — One person died and another was seriously injured in an explosion Monday in a site that treats nuclear waste in southern France, the country’s nuclear safety body said, adding that no radioactive leaks have been detected. The Nuclear Safety Authority said three other people suffered lesser injuries in the blast at an oven in the Centraco nuclear site. Read full article > >

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Explosion at nuclear site in southern France kills 1, injures 4; no radiation leaks reported

WAIPAHU, Hawaii — Authorities investigating the blast at a fireworks storage bunker that killed five people intend to question the facility’s operators and hope to finally be able to enter the unstable site.

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A deadly bomb ripped through a crowded bus station in Jerusalem Wednesday, killing one and injuring at least 30. Authorities initially said no one had been killed. Witnesses said the blast, which came from a bomb left in a bag on the side of the road,…

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Jerusalem Bus Bombing Kills One

Police are investigating the blast, which knocked out a window and damaged a room.

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Report: ‘Device’ explodes outside Potomac home

One day after President Obama submitted his budget request for fiscal 2012 to Capitol Hill, congressional Republicans assailed the document as too weak on spending. But they also signaled an openness to working with Democrats to solve the nation’s financial problems.

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Republicans blast Obama budget but signal willingness to work with Democrats

MOSCOW – The suicide bombing Monday at Domodedovo Airport marked one of the most damaging attacks here in years, striking at a crucial link between Russia and the rest of the world.

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With memories of a monster Christmas blizzard still fresh, another blast of winter began charging across eastern states Friday, with snow predicted as far south as middle Georgia.

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Big snowstorm sweeping east

Phoom! It was that impossible-to-describe sound that happens when you’re too close to the blast to hear the full roar. I could see nothing but orange, black, and red as I was engulfed in an intense, all-consuming heat. It was immediately sickening, and I began to process the fact that I was in serious trouble. At that same instant, I was knocked off my feet and slid headfirst down a muddy slope, plunging into water saturated with chemi

Indian cities are on high alert as police hunt for those responsible for the blast in the holy city of Varanasi, which killed a one-year-old girl and wounded at least 34 people.

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A survivor of the Russell Square Tube bombing on 7 July 2005 has described the pandemonium after the blast.

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Russell Square ‘chaos’ after bomb

An explosion at a 676-room Mexican resort killed six people and injured at least 15 more on Sunday. Four Canadian citizens were killed in the blast, officials in Canada have confirmed, including a nine-year-old boy. An additional two casualties were…

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Halliburton knew weeks before the blast on a BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mixture it planned to use to seal the well was unstable, a commission found.

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Firms Knew of Cement Flaws Before Spill, Panel Says

An explosion rips through an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the blast in April that caused a huge oil spill.

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