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New Zealand coal mine blast traps 27 underground (Reuters)

November 19th, 2010

Reuters - An explosion rocked a remote colliery in New Zealand on Friday, trapping 27 miners underground, the company and local authorities said.

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American visits Iran blast site under freedom deal (AP)

October 17th, 2010

Iranian-American businessman Reza Taghavi, 71, speaks at this home a day after he was released from Evin prison in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010. Taghavi said Sunday he spent more than two years in a Tehran prison despite being innocent — simply for handing over $200 in cash to a man in Iran that an acquaintance in the United States had given him. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - An Iranian-American businessman freed after more than two years in Tehran’s main prison visited survivors of a deadly 2008 mosque bombing as a condition of his release in…

China mine blast rescuers try to reach 11 trapped (AP)

October 17th, 2010

**CORRECTS CAPTION TO REMOVE REFERENCE TO NUMBER OF MINERS TRAPPED AND KILLED** Rescuers walk out of an entrance of Pingyu Mine after an explosion in Yuzhou, in central China's Henan province, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. Rescuers battled dangerous levels of gas, tons of coal dust and the risk of falling rocks as they worked to free miners after the explosion at the mine in central China early Saturday.  (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Dozens of anxious relatives and friends of 11 miners trapped underground by an explosion in central China gathered outside the site Sunday while rescuers said they were fighting…

NATO: 3 more troops killed in Afghan bomb blast (AP)

October 14th, 2010

In this photo taken on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010,  US Army soldiers from Scout Platoon 502 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, carry supplies from a helicopter in Zhari district, Kandahar province.  The Scouts' mission was to support roadside bomb clearance efforts in the militant stronghold, the latest days-long phase of Operation Dragon Strike. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - A bomb blast killed three NATO troops in western Afghanistan on Thursday, a day after six service members died in a spate of attacks by insurgents in the…

18 Guard members killed in Iran base blast Tuesday (AP)

October 13th, 2010

AP - An explosion set off by a fire that had spread to an ammunition depot at a military base in western Iran killed 18 members of the country’s powerful…

Blast near Fallujah kills 4 Iraqi police (AP)

September 26th, 2010

Newly graduated Iraqi navy officers adjust each other's epaulettes during a eremony at Umm Qasr's port near Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, September 26, 2010. About 170 navy officers graduated on Sunday. REUTERS/Atef Hassan (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT MILITARY)AP - A car packed with explosives blew up Sunday near the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, killing four policemen in the latest sign that insurgents could be trying to…

NATO: Bomb blast kills 2 troops (AP)

September 26th, 2010

File picture from 2009 shows a vehicle from the US Army's 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division in Afghanistan. The US Army holds its first hearing Monday in a y war crimes case that charges five soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, from the 2nd Infantry Division's Stryker brigade with killing Afghan civilians for sport and plotting a cover-up(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)AP - Two NATO service members were killed in a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the military alliance said.


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Warnock blast inspires QPR to boost promotion push (AFP)

September 25th, 2010

QPR extended their lead at the top of the Championship to six points with a 3-0 victory over Doncaster on Saturday.(Queens Park Rangers FC)AFP - QPR cemented their position at the top of the Championship after boss Neil Warnock’s half-time blast inspired a 3-0 victory over Doncaster at Loftus Road.


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Germany: 4 die after blast, shooting (AP)

September 19th, 2010

Firefighters stand in front of a house where an explosion occured in Loerrach, southern Germany, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010.  Shortly after the explosion in the house that is situated close to the St. Elisabethen hospital a woman opened fire killing at least one person and wounding several others, before being fatally wounded. (AP Photo/dapd, Winfried Rothermel)AP - Four people died and a policeman was seriously wounded in a town in southwestern Germany on Sunday, after an explosion in an apartment building and a shooting in…

Government confirms 25 dead in Sri Lanka blast (AP)

September 17th, 2010

Sri Lankan police officers inspect the site of an explosion at a police station in Karadiyanaru, a small town in the former conflict zone in eastern Sri Lanka, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Three containers filled with explosives meant for road construction detonated Friday outside the police station, killing dozens of people in a blast government officials called an accident. (AP Photo)AP - Three containers filled with explosives meant for road construction detonated Friday outside a police station in eastern Sri Lanka, killing 25 people, most of them police officers, in…