Sri Lanka President's brother escapes bomb blast
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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse's brother Gothabaya, who is also the island's defense secretary, narrowly escaped a suspected suicide bomb attack in the island's capital on Friday, officials said.
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An Afghan vice president on Monday escaped a bomb attack, which slightly injured his driver, while travelling in north-east Afghanistan.
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At least seven people died and 97 others were injured on Sunday in a suicide bomb attack onboard a train at the main railway station in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, police and hospital sources said.
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A top Palestinian security leader who is related to Yasser Arafat escaped unharmed Tuesday when a booby-trapped car exploded near his convoy in Gaza City.
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A Sri Lankan government minister died Tuesday after being wounded by a roadside bomb outside the capital
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A Sri Lankan government minister was killed Tuesday in a powerful roadside bomb attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels near the island's capital and international airport, officials said.
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A Sri Lankan government minister was killed Tuesday in a roadside bombing near the capital that was blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels, the military said. Seven other people were wounded.
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Greek Culture Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis escapes unhurt as a bomb explodes near his Athens home.
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Sri Lankan police detained two people in connection with the assassination attempt on the president's brother, officials said as Tamil Tiger rebels emerged as the only suspects.
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A deputy to U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai escaped a roadside bombing in northern Afghanistan on Monday, just four days after Karzai himself was targeted as he tried to hit the campaign trail for landmark Oct. 9 elections.
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A Sri Lankan minister is killed in a powerful roadside bomb blast near the capital, Colombo, doctors say.
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LAMONGAN, Indonesia  - Indonesian farmer Agus  Saefuddin lives in the East Java regency of Lamongan, home to  three brothers who were key players in the Bali bombings that  killed 202 people, but he doesn't know their names.
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The president of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, has escaped an assassination attempt, a presidential spokesman said.
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Benazir Bhutto escaped unhurt after two suicide bombers struck her vehicle in Karachi.
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JERUSALEM -- A top Palestinian security leader who is a relative of Yasser Arafat escaped injury yesterday when a booby-trapped car exploded near his convoy in Gaza City, security officials said.
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A top Palestinian security leader and relative of Yasser Arafat escaped unharmed when a car bomb exploded near his convoy in Gaza City, the latest sign of growing chaos as Israel's planned Gaza pullout nears. Israel, meanwhile, expanded its military operation in northern Gaza.
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Two people escape injury following a petrol bomb attack on a house in Ballymena, County Antrim.