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Arrested Kazakhstan students in Boston transferred to same cell
Imprisoned in USA, Dias Kadyrbaev and Azamat Tazhayakov have been transferred to the same cell after months of solitary confinement.
04 November 2013
Car bomb kills 40 as fears mount for trapped Syrians
A car bomb outside a mosque near Damascus killed at least 40 people on Friday, an NGO said, as a top UN official expressed mounting concern over hundreds of thousands of trapped civilians.
26 October 2013
'Female suicide bomber' kills five on bus in Russia
A suspected female suicide bomber set off a blast on a bus packed with students in southern Russia, killing at least five people and raising security fears.
22 October 2013
Bomb found at railway crossing in Almaty
An explosive device has been found at the railway crossing of Medeu station in Almaty city.
18 October 2013
Three bomb blasts in eastern Myanmar, one dead: police
Three bombs exploded in eastern Myanmar leaving one person dead, police said Thursday, the latest in a series of explosions that the United States denounced as "acts of terror".
17 October 2013
Bomb kills 12 as war-related deaths near 500,000 in Iraq
A bomb ripped through a crowd of worshippers at a Sunni mosque in Iraq, killing 12 people as a study put the death toll in the war-torn country at nearly half a million since the US-led 2003 invasion.
16 October 2013
China: Japan defeated not only by atomic bombs
Japan should realize it was defeated in 1945 "not just" by atomic bombs and thus not challenge the post-World War II order.
09 October 2013
Protesters attack Russian embassy in Libya
Dozens of angry protesters tried to storm Russia's embassy in Tripoli on Wednesday after reports that a Russian woman had killed a Libyan army officer.
03 October 2013
Baghdad area bombings kill at least 50
Twelve car bombs, mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas in and around Baghdad, killed at least 47 people Monday, while at least three died in a blast against Sunni worshippers.
01 October 2013
Death toll in Peshawar bombing rises to 42
The death toll from a car bomb attack in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar rose to 42 on Monday.
30 September 2013
Taliban bomb US consulate in Afghanistan
Heavily armed gunmen in suicide vests detonated a truck bomb outside the US consulate in the Afghan city of Herat, sparking a shootout with American forces early Friday.
13 September 2013
Woman threatens to blow herself up in Dubai govt building
An Uzbek woman threatened to blow herself up on Sunday at the Dubai public prosecutor's office over a dispute with a man she claims is her son's father.
02 September 2013
Suicide bomber kills 25 at Baghdad park
A suicide bomber killed at least 25 people in Baghdad on Friday while seven died in other attacks, as security forces seek to stem spiralling violence with wide-ranging anti-insurgent operations.
26 August 2013
Beirut car bomb kills 18 in Hezbollah stronghold
A huge car bomb blast killed at least 18 people Thursday in a densely populated Beirut bastion of Lebanon's Shiite group Hezbollah, a military backer of Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad.
16 August 2013
Kazakhstan duo pleads not guilty to impeding Boston bombing probe
Two Kazakhstan teenagers who went to the same college with accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of impeding investigators pursuing the perpetrators of the deadly finish-line attack.
14 August 2013
Nagasaki marks 68th anniversary of US atomic bombing
Nagasaki on Friday marked the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing by the United States during World War II that turned the Japanese city into an inferno.
09 August 2013
Kazakhs charged with impeding Boston bombing probe
A federal grand jury in Boston indicted two college students from Kazakhstan on Thursday for allegedly impeding investigators pursuing the Boston Marathon bombers.
09 August 2013
Seven killed in bomb blast in Pakistan's Karachi: police
A bomb blast in Pakistan's port city of Karachi early Wednesday killed seven people and wounded 26 others.
07 August 2013
Philippine blast death toll up to eight
The death toll from a powerful bomb that hit a southern Philippine city rose to eight on Tuesday, police said, as officials pointed to political rivalry as a possible motive.
06 August 2013
Hiroshima marks anniversary of US atomic bombing
Tens of thousands gathered at a peace memorial park in Hiroshima on Tuesday to mark the 68th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the city, as anti-atomic sentiment runs high in Japan.
06 August 2013