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‘Girl aged 10’ used in Nigerian bombing

At least 19 people have been killed and 47 others injured when explosives carried by a girl, aged about 10, detonated in a crowded market in the Nigerian city of Damaturu, police have said. No one claimed responsibility for Sunday’s explosion but the latest attack bears the hallmarks of the[…]

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Twin attacks reported in Kabul

Gunfire and explosions have been reported in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, hours after a Taliban suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a convoy belonging to foreign forces, security officials said. Police spokesman Ebadullah Karimi said that armed men entered a building close to an installation used by Afghanistan’s intelligence agency on[…]

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Beacon Valley rocked by house bombing

The community of Beacon Valley in Mitchell’s Plain was shocked when an alleged drug house in the area was bombed late on Monday night. A facebook page, ‘Mitchell’s Plain Gangwatch’ was abuzz after the incident, which people described as a big bang that left a house in the area without[…]

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Statements begin in 1998 embassy bombings trial

Opening statements are likely in the trial of a man charged in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Khaled al-Fawwaz is being tried alone after one co-defendant pleaded guilty and another died this month. The attacks in Kenya and Tanzania killed 224 people, including a dozen Americans. Al-Fawwaz[…]

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Al-Shabab claims deadly Mogadishu bombing

At least four people have been killed in a car-bomb attack close to the heavily fortified gates of the airport in Mogadishu, Somali police say. Both the airport and the adjoining UN mission have been frequently targeted in the past by the Somali armed group al-Shabab, which is fighting to[…]

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KSA sentences 3 to death over terror attacks

A Saudi court Monday passed death sentences on three men over deadly  attacks in 2003 and 2004 that targeted foreign residents of the kingdom, the official Saudi Press Agency reported. The three were convicted of involvement in a 2003 suicide bombing on a residential compound in the capital Riyadh and[…]

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