City Room: Mexican Consulate Hit by Grenades
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The devices -- novelty grenades that had been hollowed out and filled with powder -- set off a small explosion and caused minor damage. No one was injured.
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The Saudi embassy in Kuwait City was briefly evacuated Saturday after officials received information a parcel containing explosives was inside the seaside compound, a security source said.
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An explosion occurred at the Hilton hotel in Taba, on the Egypt-Israel border, causing numerous casualties. The blast at around 10 PM apparently originated in the hotel lobby, causing the ceiling of the lobby to collaspse.
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Islamic militants threw explosives at the gate of the heavily guarded U.S. consulate in Jiddah, then forced their way into the building, prompting a gunbattle in a bold assault that left seven people dead and several injured before the three-hour long crisis was brought under control.
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Mexican police investigate a truck explosion that is now known to have killed 28 people.
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BAGHDAD At least five mortar rounds exploded in central Baghdad on Thursday, including two in the Green Zone, the enclave that houses Iraq&#39;s interim administration and several foreign embassies.
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Two blasts rocked an unused government facility overnight, damaging the compound&#39;s wall, witnesses said Friday, sparking security jitters ahead of a regional summit.
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A grenade was thrown at a Somali government minister's house overnight and mortar bombs hit areas near Mogadishu's port in the latest spate of post-war violence, witnesses said on Tuesday.
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Several grenades exploded in an office building owned by the Dutch Shell Oil Co. in western Venezuela, injuring a security guard, police said Tuesday.
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A small chemical explosion was reported Monday in the building that houses Fox News, officials said. One person was injured.
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At least one suspect took an unknown number of hostages Tuesday at the Mexican consulate, and a TV news camera later showed a man apparently being shot as he held a woman by the neck.
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A four-story building housing doctors&#039; offices collapsed and burned in an apparent gas explosion Monday after what witnesses described as a thunderous explosion that rocked the neighborhood just off Madison Avenue.
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An explosion at a hotel on the border between Egypt and Israel causes several casualties, reports say.
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TIJUANA/NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico  - Cristina Palacios  was sitting with her son Alejandro in a car in the crime-ridden  Mexican city of Tijuana on the U.S. border when three men armed  with assault rifles came for him.
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City hall offices in the southwestern French city of Bordeaux were damaged by a small bomb blast overnight, local police chief Alain Gehin said.
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Islamic militants attacked the heavily guarded US consulate with explosives and machine-guns Monday in a explosion and gun battle that left seven people dead and several others injured.
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Six Iraqi national guards, 10 civilians wounded in Mosul bomb attacks, mortar shells land near Italian embassy in Baghdad. MOSUL, Iraq - Six Iraqi national guardsmen and 10 civilians were wounded in two bomb