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Pakistani guard shoots, wound 2 Chinese working in a textile mill in Karachi
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani guard shot and wounded two Chinese nationals working in a textile mill in the southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, but authorities said the attack was not related to militant violence. China has frequently demanded better security for its...
Greek police arrest third suspect over bombing as minister warns of new generation of extremists
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek police arrested a third suspect Monday in connection with an explosion in central Athens last week that authorities have blamed on an alleged aspiring domestic extremist group. The 30-year-old woman surrendered to Greek authorities Monday at Athens...
A grenade explosion in a busy market in Indian-controlled Kashmir wounds 9
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — An assailant threw a grenade at a marketplace bustling with shoppers in the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Sunday, wounding at least nine people, police said. The attack comes a day after a suspected militant was killed in a daylong gunbattle in...
Colombian authorities arrest active and retired military personnel over weapons trafficking
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Authorities in Colombia on Saturday arrested a group of nine active and retired military personnel over weapons trafficking accusations stemming from a wider investigation into a grenade attack last year in the capital. Colombia’s army in a statement said...
Bomb targeting police assigned for polio drive kills 9 people, including 5 children, in SW Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in restive southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing nine people including five nearby children, and wounding 17 other people, officials said. ...
Greek police say fatal Athens apartment blast was likely caused by improvised bomb
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek police said on Friday that an explosion in an Athens apartment that killed a man and severely wounded a woman the previous day appears to have been caused by an improvised bomb. Police searching the wrecked apartment seized two handguns and ammunition,...
Russian bomb hits building in Ukraine's 2nd largest city, killing 3, including 2 teens
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces struck a residential building in Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv on Thursday, killing three, including two teenage boys, and injuring scores of others, and launched scores of other attacks as they continued their grinding onslaught in the country's...
Today in History: October 30, Muhammad Ali defeats George Foreman in the “Rumble in the Jungle”
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 30, the 304th day of 2024. There are 62 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a scheduled 15-round bout known as the “Rumble in the Jungle,” in Kinshasa,...
A suicide attack kills 4 security personnel in northwest Pakistan
PESHWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide attack at a checkpoint killed four Pakistani security personnel and injured five in the country’s northwest on Saturday, police said. The car bombing took place in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police...
A car bomb explodes outside a police station in western Mexico, wounding 3 officers
ACAMBARO, Mexico (AP) — A car bomb left outside a police station in the town of Acambaro in western Mexico wounded three people, prosecutors in the violence-wracked state of Guanajuato said Thursday. They said another explosion, apparently a second car bomb, occurred in the nearby...
