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The skyline is seen as the sun goes down late in the afternoon in Frankfurt, Germany December 10, 2016. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

Germany’s Financial Capital Vacates Homes to Defuse WWII Bomb

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 1, 2017 | World

Frankfurt city officials said on Sunday that the city will evacuate some 60,000 people in the nation’s biggest such manoeuvre since the war while officials disarm the British bomb discovered on a building site this week in Frankfurt’s leafy Westend, where...

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A child picked up the explosive and brought it into the nursery

Unexploded Second World War Bomb Found on Shelf in Germany Nursery

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 6, 2017 | World

German police evacuated a school in the city of Darmstadt on Wednesday, after a “strange object” lying on a shelf among some toys found by one of the children was revealed to be an unexploded World War Two bomb. “A child had found the stick-type incendiary bomb...

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People gather at the site of a car bomb attack at a vegetable market in eastern Baghdad, Iraq January 8, 2017. REUTERS/Wissm al-Okili

ISIS Suicide Car Bomb Kills 13 in Eastern Baghdad

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 8, 2017 | Middle East

A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car Sunday at a vegetable market in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 13 civilians and wounding more than 50, police and medical sources said, the latest in a recent bout of violence claimed by ISIS group. Interior...

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In this Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, file photograph, a Seaside Park police officer sits in his cruiser near charred rubble along the boardwalk in Seaside Park, N.J., after a fire started near a frozen custard stand in Seaside Park and quickly spread north into neighboring Seaside Heights,AP

Bomb Goes Off before Marines Charity Run

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 17, 2016 | World

A pipe bomb exploded in a New Jersey town on Saturday. The bomb was set off shortly before thousands of runners were due to participate in a charity 5K race to benefit Marines and sailors, authorities reported. No injuries were reported in the blast in Seaside Park...

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Al-Shabab Carries Out a Bloody Attack on a Hotel in Mogadishu

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 31, 2016 | World

At least five people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack that targeted a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu near the presidential palace yesterday. Al-Shabaab militant group claimed responsibility for the attack. A Somali policeman named Mohammed Abdel-Qader...