Omar Abdullah escapes bid on life; two injured in blast:
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[India News]: Srinagar, Oct 24 : National Conference Chief Omar Abdullah and his father Farooq Abdullah today escaped unhurt when militants triggered a powerful blast as they reached a graveyard in Anantnag district to attend a ceremony for a slain party
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Mr Omar Abdullah, President of the opposition National Conference, and his father, Dr Farooq Abdullah, had a miraculous escape when an IED explosion took place at mourning prayers for a slain party leader at Anantnag town, about 55 km south of here, this
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf escaped unharmed on Sunday when suspected Islamist insurgents hit his presidential compound in Mogadishu with mortar bombs for a second day, one of his aides said.
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Afghan warlord Gen. Abdurrashid Dostum escaped unhurt today from a suicide bomb attack which injured more than 20 people gathered for prayers in his northern home town of Sheberghan.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - A roadside bomb killed two Somalis and two foreign aid workers working for the Dutch arm of Medecins Sans Frontieres near the southern Somali port of Kismayu on Monday, witnesses said.
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THE Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, escaped an assassination attempt yesterday when a rocket was fired at his helicopter as it was landing in the south-eastern town of Gardez.
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A prisoner broke loose and fled Wednesday after he was taken to the hospital, and there were reports that shots were fired in the building but no reports of injuries, authorities said.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The transitional president of Somalia narrowly escaped assassination yesterday when a car bomb exploded as he left a converted grain silo that serves as the nation's makeshift Parliament.
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Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, who has emerged as one of the country's most powerful political figures, was inside the building but unhurt in the blast.
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Two huge explosions hit the Saudicapital of Riyadh Wednesday evening, security sources said. A car bomb went off near the Interior Ministry as militantsfailed in forcing their
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The "blind sheik" who inspired the World Trade Center bombing has been hospitalized, raising fears of new attacks if he dies in U.S. custody, the FBI says in a bulletin. Radical Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman, who is serving life in a U.S. prison, has himself called for attacks if he dies in jail.
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Two people have been injured in anexplosion occurred in a small airport in Kenyan capital Nairobi Sunday afternoon. Kenyan government said the explosion may be caused by inflammable objects.
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JDEIDET YABOUS, Syria -- The Syrian leader of an Islamic militant group blew himself up yesterday after trying to cross into Lebanon and engaging in a gunbattle with Syrian forces. Two border guards were wounded.
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf escaped unhurt from a mortar attack on his official residence in the capital on Saturday, hours after returning to Mogadishu from an overseas trip, one of his aides said.
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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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An explosion went off Sunday at an airport in Kenya&#39;s capital, wounding at least two people Sunday and prompting authorities to seal off the facility to air traffic, witnesses said.
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A blast in the Afghan city of Kandahar wounded at least three government soldiers on Wednesday, a day after security forces said they caught Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's security chief.