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October 8th, 2009 Large blast strikes in center of Afghan capitalKABUL — A powerful explosion rocked the center of Afghanistan's capital early Thursday near the Interior Ministry and the Indian Embassy, where dozens of civilians were killed in an attack last year. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw at least six people being loaded into the ambulances.

August 23rd, 2009 RAIPUR - A day after a little known group triggered a powerful blast right in front of state's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in the heart of the city, the police are yet to ascertain who was behind it. The blast from a country-made bomb ripped through the front part of a passenger bus parked outside the BJP headquarters, Ekatm Parisar.

August 2nd, 2009 TEL AVIV - Three people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting Saturday night at a community centre for the gay community in Tel Aviv, police said. The three fatalities included a young man and a woman, while the third person was still be be identified, police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told the German Press Agency dpa.

July 27th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Two women in this Orissa capital were critically injured when a youth allegedly threw acid on them, police said. "Two girls, Rashmirekha Behera, 23, and Kainath Ali, 21, suffered serious burn injuries following the attack.

July 16th, 2009 Car explodes in front of Albanian parliamentTIRANA, Albania — Police say a car parked in front of Albania's Parliament has exploded, but there were no injuries. Police spokesman Klodian Branko says the Mercedes owned by a private company exploded at about 11 p.m.

July 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Editors Guild has denounced an attack on the Bangalore office of the business news channel UTVi last week as an "attack on free media". While it is still not clear who or what motivated the attack, the Editors Guild condemns the acts of violence and expresses solidarity with the team at UTVi, it said in a statement here Wednesday.

July 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - A Congress legislator and a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader were injured and an office of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) torched at Naoda in West Bengal's Murshidabad district Wednesday. Police said the legislator has been admitted to the Baharampur New General hospital with a head injury.

July 5th, 2009 LONDON - A British man murdered his estranged wife after she changed her marital status on social networking site Facebook to "single", a media report said Sunday. Edward Richardson, 41, stabbed Sarah Richardson, 26, to death at her parents' home in Staffordshire May 12, 2008, BBC News reported.

June 17th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani police have arrested a man suspected of involvement in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in March this year, a media report said Wednesday. The suspect, identified as Zubair, has been arrested.

June 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - Three activists of West Bengal's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) were shot dead Wednesday by suspected Maoists in the Jhargram area, close to the troubled town of Lalgarh, in what is seen as a sign of the rebels expanding their activities. Motorcycle-borne Maoists gunned down the three activists, including a zonal committee member of CPI-M's student wing, Student's Federation of India, in Jhargram subdivision of West Midnapore, police said.

June 3rd, 2009 ALGIERS/PARIS - At least 11 people were killed and several others injured in an attack by suspected Islamic terrorists on police accompanying a shipment of examination papers, a media report said Wednesday. Seven police officers and at least two teachers, taking the examination papers to the test centre at Timezrit, were killed as militants exploded a bomb and fired from automatic weapons, the online daily Tout sur l'Algerie reported.

May 29th, 2009 HONG KONG - A four-year-old boy was chopped to death with a meat cleaver in front of horrified lunchtime crowds as he played in the street with his father in Hong Kong Friday. The boy and his father were playing outside a busy fish and vegetable market when a man who lives in the same apartment block as them, lunged at them with a meat cleaver, police said.

May 28th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australian police Thursday arrested two teenagers over the beating of an Indian student on a Melbourne train, a media report said. Sourabh Sharma, 21, was beaten by a group of thugs as he travelled on a train May 9, HeraldSun reported.

May 6th, 2009 Storm front crossing South, raising flood threatsBIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A storm front with severe weather is settling on the South, bringing heavy rains and a possible tornado in Alabama.

April 29th, 2009 Taliban threatens spike in violenceKABUL — A top Taliban commander warned Wednesday that militants would unleash a wave of ambushes, roadside bombs and suicide attacks in a new spring offensive. In a possible harbinger of coming violence, coalition and Afghan troops killed 42 militants in three operations, officials said.