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More than 160 dead in Nigeria attacks

January 21 2012 19:48

Co-ordinated attacks by Islamist militants in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Friday killed about 160 people, witnesses and reports say. Hospitals and mortuaries are struggling to deal with the numbers of killed and injured still arriving. A series of explosions ripped apart police buildings around the city, which is now under a 24-hour curfew. →

13 policemen die in eastern Indian attack

January 21 2012 19:44

13 policemen have died in a blast in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. The explosion tore up their minibus as they were returning from a routine operation. The attack was carried out by Maoist rebels who have been carrying out attacks to apparently  protect the interests of the poor for the last 40 years. RIAN →

15 die in Syria bus blast

January 21 2012 18:18

15 people have died and over 30 have been injured in a bus blast in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, when a minibus carrying inmates hit a roadside bomb, local media report. Six police officers were among the injured. Last week, another bus exploded near Idlib. It was carrying workers for the local textile plant. →

3 die in car-bomb blast in Dagestan

January 21 2012 12:53

Three people died when a car-bomb went off in Dagestan, - a Russian North Caucasus republic. According to the law enforcement agencies, the explosion resounded near the town of Izberbash, a mere 30 metres away from the Kavkaz federal motorway, earlier today. The victims are now being identified. →

FARC rebels blow up oil line - Colombia

January 21 2012 06:13

Rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) blew up on Friday the country’s second-largest oil pipe. The terrorist act was committed in Norte de Santander on the border with Venezuela. After two explosions in different sections of the 770-kilometer pipeline, "Caño Limon" there was a large oil spill, with significant damage to the environment. →

Blasts at police stations in Nigeria: 8 dead

January 21 2012 01:46

Several blasts in the north of Nigeria, in the large city of Kano, have targeted police stations. According to the national agency for disaster management, eight people were killed; there are wounded. The first explosion occurred at the main office of the regional police; three others - at police stations throughout the city. →

Six dead in Somalia blast

January 20 2012 08:15

Six people were killed in Somalia in a bomb blast near the refugee camp in Mogadishu including two police officers. The number of victims could have been much higher as the blast occurred a matter of minutes after a group of senior representatives of the UN and foreign journalists left the compound. →

Blast kills security officer in Damascus

January 19 2012 16:01

A security service officer was killed in an explosion in Damascus, Syria, today. A bomb detonated in his car stationed in the city’s southern suburb. No further details were reported. TASS →

Suicide attacks kills 6 in Kandahar

January 19 2012 14:07

The blast killed at least six civilians and wounded several more.                The suicide attacker was allegedly targeting coalition forces based near the airport. However, no service people were injured. The Taliban has already claimed responsibility for this terror attack. →

Italy gas pipeline blast injures 10

January 19 2012 09:10

Ten people were injured, three of them critically, when a methane pipeline exploded in northern Italy late on Wednesday. The accident occurred 20 km away from La Spezia in Liguria. Eyewitnesses say the blast caused flames reaching a height of up to 200 meters. Two nearby buildings were seriously damaged in the blast. (RIAN) →

1999 blast suspect arrested in Moscow

January 18 2012 13:43

Police have arrested a 29-year old unemployed man in Moscow on suspicion of involvement in the 1999 explosion outside the receiving office of the FSB counterintelligence service in the Russian capital, according to the press service of the Interior Ministry Criminal Investigation Department. →

Blast at Saransk housing block, Russia

January 18 2012 13:38

An explosive device went off outside the lobby of an apartment house in Saransk, Russia. Its type and destructive capacity haven't been determined as of yet. It was allegedly fixed behind the front door. Police is now trying to recover fragments of the explosive. The blast occurred on Wednesday, at 7:30 a.m. →

8 die in car-bomb blast in Iraq

January 16 2012 13:48

At least eight people died when a car-bomb went off in the Iraqi city of Mosul, north of Baghdad, earlier today. Four other people were injured, the Reuters news agency reports with reference to city hospital officials. The blast resounded in the area of a compact settlement of Shiites. →

7 policemen killed in Iraq

January 15 2012 21:02

Seven policemen died and 19 were injured as a result of an explosion and attack against a police station in a town in the east of Iraq, France Press reports. In total, six explosions happened during the day. The terrorists’ aim was the police station with an anti-terrorism department. →

12 killed by Ramadi bombs

January 15 2012 18:20

Four suicide car bombs detonated outside the headquarters of a counter-terror unit in the Iraqi city of Ramadi 100 kilometres west of Baghdad have left 12 people killed and 37 injured. Most of the casualties are police. On Saturday, a suicide bomb killed 64 Shia pilgrims in the southern port city of Basra. →

Basra bomb kills 50

January 14 2012 16:26

At least 50 people are dead and over 100 injured after a suicide attacker wearing police uniform detonated a powerful bomb amid a crowd of Shia pilgrims at a checkpoint in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra. Saturday is a Shia festival in memory of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammed. (RIAN) →

Ban Ki-moon condemns murder of Iranian physicist

January 14 2012 10:34

The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has condemned the assassination of the Iranian nuclear physicist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan. The deputy official spokesman for the Secretary-General, Eduardo Bui, told reporters on Friday that any terrorist attack or homicide is inadmissible. Two unidentified people riding a motorcycle threw a bomb into the car of the scientist in Tehran on the 11th of this month. →

Iranians accuse West of killing scientist

January 13 2012 18:10

On Friday, a funeral of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a nuclear physicist, took place in Iran. The scientist was killed as a result of a terror attack on his car in Tehran on Wednesday. Tens of thousands of people took part in the funeral. →

Israel denies involvement in Iranian physicist murder

January 13 2012 15:32

Israel’s President Shimon Peres has denied his country’s involvement in the recent assassination of Iran’s Tehran University nuclear physicist, Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan. He said that it’s now trendy to blame Israel and the US for anything bad that happens in Iran. This was Israel’s only official response to the murder. →

Tehran wants UN to condemn attack on nuclear scientist

January 12 2012 08:50

Iran has addressed the United Nations Organization chief Ban Ki-moon, asking him to condemn the killing of a nuclear scientist in Tehran. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, Professor at the Polytechnic University, died in a car bomb blast on Wednesday. Police say an explosive device was planted on his car by an unknown motor cyclist. →

 
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