At least nine persons, including four policemen, have been killed and 20 others injured in a powerful blast near the ancient pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
The worst terror attack in Iran this century occurred when Iranians marked the fourth anniversary of Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander General Qassem Soleimani's death. Soleimani was killed by a US drone on January 3, 2020.
Pakistani-American terror suspect Faisal Shahzad had planned to attack four other targets if his bid to detonate a car bomb near Times Square in New York was successful, according to a television channel. Other locations that he intended to attack were Rockefeller Centre, Grand Central Terminal, the World Financial Centre and the Connecticut headquarters of defence contractor Sikorsky. Sikorsky manufactures helicopters for the US military, including the Black Hawk.
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A blast took place outside the Israeli Embassy in the heart of Lutyens' Delhi on Friday evening, a fire service official said.
According to officers who were part of the probe, detecting a crime that was committed with proper planning, involving different modules working separately for a common cause, was a challenging task.
The Supreme Court on Thursday awarded life sentence to four convicts in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar bomb blast case for the remainder of their lives without remission, citing the severity of the offence. Thirteen people were killed and nearly 40 injured in the explosion.
At least 13 people were killed on Tuesday and over a hundred injured when a powerful car bomb ripped through a police headquarters, an attack blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood aimed at derailing Egypt's democratic transition.
He was arrested after a 'brief exchange of fire'.
The death toll in the deadly suicide car bombing -- on a popular five-star hotel in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar -- on Wednesday rose to 16 with the recovery of five more bodies from the rubble of the devastated building. Among the dead were at least three foreigners, including two United Nations employees.Police and rescue workers scoured the burnt out rooms of the Pearl Continental hotel for survivors and clues after the attack.
An explosion was reported in the capital city of Afghanistan. Sputnik reported citing local sources that the blast was the result of a rocket landing on a residential building near the Kabul airport and that it had killed a child,
A man, one of the six accused in the explosion case in Coimbatore, confessed during interrogation that he met two men in a Kerala prison who had links with an ISIS group involved in the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, police sources said on Friday.
The death toll in two suicide car bombings in northwest Pakistan today rose to 25 with the recovery of five more bodies from the debris of a police station that was destroyed in one of the attacks.
Seventeen others were injured in the car bomb explosion.
The Delhi police have launched a massive hunt for the biker who was following the car which was carrying the Israeli diplomat who was injured in a bomb attack on Monday at New Delhi.
The explosion took place in the wash room of the second floor of the court complex, said police.
At least two persons were killed and over 10 injured when suspected ULFA militants triggered a blast at a market area near the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) headquarters at Maligaon at around 6:30pm on Friday.
India on Saturday said no one from its High Commission in Dhaka was injured after crude bombs were hurled near a parked car hired by the mission, which has been assured of "all security" by Bangladesh authorities.
The explosion, according to a police officer quoted by a news agency, was caused by a car bomb.
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Rescuers scrambled to remove the rubble of over 20 houses that collapsed due to the impact of the suicide car bombing at a playground in northwest Pakistan as the toll in the devastating attack rose to 95 on Saturday.
'It is not easy to pull off a seven-part show because it is almost like making four films at once.'
A car carrying 40 kg of RDX exploded outside a school, barely 50 metres from a Central Reserve Police Force camp in Pulwama town at around 1130 IST on Monday, killing 14 people including two students and three CRPF officers.
Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab on Wednesday launched a deadly attack on a top Mogadishu hotel popular with MPs, killing at least 10 people, police said.
At least three people, including a chief security officer of President Asif Ali Zardari, were killed and about 12 others injured in Karachi on Wednesday when a powerful blast targeted a bulletproof vehicle in a congested area.
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In an apparent fallout of the arrest of its Urdu news bulletin anchor-journalist Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi on the charge of abating the February 13 bomb blast on an Israeli embassy car in New Delhi, government-run Doordarshan is profiling professionals engaged for its news services to ascertain among others their religion, Pakistani connections and any criminal background, with a warning that their contract will be cancelled if they fail in the police verification.
A special court in Ahmedabad on Friday awarded death sentence to 38 convicts in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case, which had claimed 56 lives and left over 200 injured.
The IED that triggered a low-intensity explosion in courtroom number 102 on December 9 had left a person injured.
Communist Party of India - Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to intervene in the case of senior Urdu journalist Syed Mohd Ahmad Kazmi, who has been languishing in jail since March 6 after he was detained in connection with the bomb blast in an Israeli embassy car in Delhi on February 13. In a letter to Dr Singh, he said that Kazmi was a journalist of repute and as such, there was concern over the treatment meted out to him.
In a surprise departure from norms, investigators of the National Security Guard post-blast study team were not allowed to gather vital data of the terror-struck and burnt Israeli embassy SUV citing "diplomatic reasons".
The current leads in the investigation point to the same module of Indian Mujahideen that was responsible for the German Bakery blast in Pune, sources in the Anti-Terrorism Squad have told rediff.com.
A blast has been reported outside the Bharatiya Janata Party office in Bangalore, injuring 16 people including seven policemen.
On this day last year, ICC Anti-Corruption council officer Steve Richardson chose to eat breakfast in the executive lounge on the ninth floor of Cinnamon Grand instead of heading down to restaurant, a decision that saved him from the Easter Bombings. Richardson, who was in the country along with his colleagues to investigate corruption charges against Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), was staying on the ninth floor of the hotel in Colombo, one of the six locations where bombs went off in a series of blasts, killing and injuring hundreds of people across the country.
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