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Four arrested for hotel blast in southern Thailand
The Nation, Bangkok, Thailand / Asia News NetworkBANGKOK (The Nation/ANN) -- Four suspects were arrested yesterday in connection with an explosion at a Narathiwat hotel in the morning that left six people injured. The bombing took place at around 11am at Asia Hotel, in Sungai Kolok district of the...Tags: Asia, Shootings, Rentals, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Thailand
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Anatomy of the Verso disaster
St. Cloud Times, Minn.For more than 105 years, the paper mill anchored on the east bank of the Mississippi River helped sustain a community. It provided jobs for generations of Central Minnesotans and a consistent and important stream of tax dollars for a city that grew with...Tags: Holidays, Memorial Day, Fishing, Layoffs and Downsizing, Health and Safety at Work
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Cause of Texas fertilizer plant blast unclear; inquiry continues
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.The cause of the fire that triggered the deadly explosion of a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, last month remains undetermined after a $1-million investigation, officials said Thursday. Although the probe continues, the cause of the disaster may never be...Tags: Chemical Industry, Disasters and Accidents, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (2013), Human Interest, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
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Armed groups bomb Libyan military posts in Benghazi
ReutersBENGHAZI, May 18 (Reuters) - Armed groups attacked military posts in Libya's second city Benghazi with bombs and a rocket-propelled grenade, an army commander said on Saturday. Nearly two years after the uprising that ended Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year...Tags: Benghazi, Libya, Explosions, Military Equipment
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Scout to be honored for role in saving lives
The Courier-Tribune, Asheboro, N.C.A local teen's quick and instinctive actions to save family members and friends from a burning boat has earned him a top lifesaving Boy Scout medal for his heroic actions. Aaron Michael Avelino, 17, of Ramseur will be awarded the Boy Scouts of America's...Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief, Youth Organizations, Awards and Prizes, Hospitals and Clinics
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Feds: Drive-through Sanford bank robbers said 'All will die' in note
Robert Gordon Shaw and Matthew Anthony Cosimini had money problems. So, according to Shaw, the two devised a plan to rob a Regions bank in Sanford. They made a fake bomb , stole a pickup truck at Seminole Towne Center, and wrote a demand note. Those...
Tags: Politics, Lobbying, Theft, Explosions, Sanford
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Watch: Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT
The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball. It weighed 80 pounds and was just over 1 foot wide, but it was going incredibly fast, traveling through space at speeds of 56,000 mph. And...
Tags: Space Programs, Weaponry, Science and Technology, Unrest, Conflicts and War, NASA
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GBI probes bottle bombs in Fort Oglethorpe
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.The Georgia Bureau of Investigation will examine fragments of two plastic bottle bombs found May 9 in a Fort Oglethorpe neighborhood. Greg Ramey, special agent in charge of the agency's 12-county Region 1 office in Calhoun, said the GBI will process the...Tags: Explosions
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A major storm could ruin the coast's tourism
The Brunswick News, Ga.When Scott McQuade thinks about the Jersey Shore these days, he envisions something he hopes he never sees here. To the director of the Golden Isles Convention and Visitors Bureau, the images are haunting -- oceanside attractions like roller coasters...Tags: Tourism and Leisure Industry, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Hurricanes, Atlantic Ocean, Disasters and Accidents
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Two blasts at Iraqi Sunni mosque kill 43
ReutersBAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba as worshippers left Friday prayers, killing at least 43 people in one of the deadliest attacks in a month-long surge in sectarian violence. Several...Tags: International Military Interventions, Religion and Belief, Islam, Baghdad (Iraq), Bombings
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Two blasts in Iraq leave at least 70 dead
BAGHDAD — Bombings in Iraq near a Sunni Muslim mosque, a busy shopping street and a funeral procession left at least 70 people dead Friday as the security situation continued to show signs of unraveling. The explosions brought the week’s...
Tags: Politics, Nouri Maliki, Iraq, Baghdad (Iraq), Bombings
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Investigators: Cause of West Fertilizer Co. fire undetermined
Austin American-StatesmanA fire that led to a devastating explosion a month ago at a fertilizer plant in this small town north of Waco remains undetermined, state and federal investigators said at a news conference Thursday. Fourteen people were killed in the April 17...Tags: Chemical Industry, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (2013), Fertilizer, Explosions
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