Top Iraqi official escapes blast
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Six people die in an explosion at a ministry in Baghdad during a ceremony attended by an Iraqi vice president.
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A former Lebanese minister escaped an attempt on his life Friday in an explosion that hit his official car at Beirut&#39;s waterfront, security sources said.
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An Iraqi police chief is killed in the northern city of Mosul as he tours the site of an earlier blast that killed 20 people.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai's running  mate for Saturday's historic presidential poll escaped unhurt  on Wednesday when a bomb set off by Taliban guerrillas narrowly  missed his car as he headed for an election meeting.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - A bomb exploded near the office  of a senior Shi'ite cleric in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on  Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 32 in a failed  attempt on the cleric's life, officials said.
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A parked car bomb exploded Monday near a building where the Iraqi vice president was attending a conference, killing at least 10 civilians and injuring 18. The Iraqi leader was not hurt.
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Iraq's Shiite vice president narrowly escaped assassination Monday as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it was searched by U.S. teams with bomb-sniffing dogs. At least 10 people were killed.
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A blast at an Iraqi ministry building killed six people and slightly wounded Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi during a ceremony on Monday, police and a senior political source said.
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A suicide bomber in police uniform killed a top police official in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday as he toured the site of an explosion that killed 36 people and wounded 169 a day earlier, officials 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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A roadside bomb exploded Thursday alongside the convoy of a prominent Shiite cleric whose high-level political ties have made him the target of past assassination attempts. The imam was not injured, but several bodyguards were wounded.
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Baghdad&#39;s governor survived anassassination attempt when a car bomb exploded in the Iraqi capital Tuesday morning as his convoy was passing by, Interior Ministry said.
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A bomb intended to kill the contentious speaker of the Iraqi Parliament exploded inside one of his armored cars.
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A top Palestinian security leader who is a relative of Yasser Arafat escaped unharmed when a car bomb exploded near his convoy in Gaza City, the latest sign of growing chaos as Israelâs planned Gaza pullout nears.
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A suicide bomber detonated his car today at the gate to the home of the leader of Iraqâs biggest political party, wounding several guards but causing no injuries to the cleric, his spokesman said.
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An explosion Thursday hit the heavily fortified Green Zone, home to Iraqi government offices and the U.S. Embassy in central Baghdad, sending up a plume of gray smoke.
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A car bomb that hit the office of a leading Iraqi Shiite official on Monday killed at least 10 people and wounded some 15 others, witnesses told Xinhua.