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Hezbollah reportedly threatens Beirut explosion investigator

On the one year anniversary of the event in August this year, Hezbollah’s leader called the investigation ‘politicised’.

Scenes of doomsday: Kabul bombings leave dozens dead, wounded

Foreign diplomats had warned earlier in the day that there was a threat of attack at Kabul airport, where thousands of people are waiting to be airlifted.

A year on, Beirut port blast survivors still waiting for justice

Lebanon’s political elite has been accused of corruption and mismanagement that led to August 4, 2020 explosion in which more than 214 people died.

Beirut blast survivor fears his trauma will never heal even if he migrates

Shady Rizk survived the port explosion that killed more than 200 people, leaving him with 350 stitches all over his body and face. He now plans to move to Canada but the impact of his ordeal lives on.

UAE probes Jebel Ali port explosion that rattled Dubai

Officials say friction or heat may have led to the blast on a container ship carrying flammable materials at Jebel Ali port – one of the world's busiest.

Blast near girls school in Afghan capital Kabul kills scores

Eyewitnesses said all but seven or eight of the victims were schoolgirls going home after finishing studies.

Deadly blast hits Afghanistan’s Logar, underscores uptick in violence

Initial reports put the death toll at 30 people after a car bomb blast targeted Afghan city of Pul-e Alam, the provincial capital of Logar province.

Somalia: Many dead in minibus explosion caused by landmine

The minibus en route from capital Mogadishu to Jowhar in Middle Shabelle region was blown up near Balad district, killing at least 15 people and injuring four others, officials say.

Deadly blasts in Equatorial Guinea kill at least 20, wound hundreds

Footage broadcast by the TVGE channel showed buildings burned and flattened in a wide radius around the Nkoa Ntoma camp in the economic capital Bata, with a thick plume of black smoke rising into the sky.

Lebanon appoints new lead investigator in port blast probe

Lebanon’s justice minister has appointed judge Tarek Bitar to lead the Investigation into the Beirut port blast.

Investigators search home in Nashville bomb probe

The operation in Antioch came as US media reports said a 63-year-old "person of interest" had been identified in connection with the explosion, which came from a parked motorhome that blared a warning minutes before it blew up.

Explosion rips through oil tanker off Saudi Arabia’s coast

Singapore-flagged BW Rhine says all 22 sailors on board have escaped without injury as shipping company blames blast on “an external source”.