Small explosion heard near U.S. base in Japan
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A small explosion was heard near a U.S. military base in Japan but there were no reports of injuries, a police spokesman said early on Tuesday.
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A small explosion of rocks, ash and steam could occur within the next few days within the crater of Mount St. Helens, where earthquake activity has been steadily building for nearly a week, scientists said Tuesday.
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On September 11, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported a huge blast and a 2.5 mile diameter mushroom cloud in North Korea 6 miles southwest of Yongjori Missile Base...on Thursday.
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A strong quake, with a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale, jolted northern Japan, near an area that was recently hit by tsunamis, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
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An explosion outside the main U.S. base in Afghanistan causes casualties during Cheney's visit
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A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck Japan's northern island of Hokkaido early Monday, injuring at least 13 people, swaying buildings and triggering a small tsunami wave that reached the shore.
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A small blast takes place near a US  military base south of Tokyo, causing no casualties.
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- An explosion outside the main US military base in Afghanistan killed 19 people and wounded 11 early today during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, though the vice president was apparently not in danger, US and Afghan officials said.
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An explosion was heard late Wednesday in a public park in Rawalpindi, about a half-mile from the residence of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, but there were no reports of injuries, and the cause of the blast was not known.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - An explosion was heard in southern Afghanistan close to the border with Pakistan on Monday, witnesses said, but it was not immediately clear what had caused it and if there were any casualties.
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Japan&#39;s navy went on alert Wednesday when an unidentified submarine made a brief incursion into the country&#39;s southern waters near Okinawa.
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Several blasts were heard in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, and two other towns nearby early Sunday, local TV reported. Metro TV reported residents heard the blasts around 7.30
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A strong earthquake struck off the coast of central Japan Monday, collapsing houses, triggering small tsunami waves and setting off a fire at a nuclear power plant.
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An explosion has ripped through a section of a pipeline near the Baiji refinery in northern Iraq. Witnesses say the cause of the explosion was not immediately clear.
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Iranian state television reported Wednesday that an explosion near the southwestern town of Deylam, about 110 miles from a nuclear facility, may have been caused by a fuel tank dropping from an Iranian plane. A government spokesman said the blast may have been caused by friendly fire.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - A strong earthquake flattened houses in northwestern Japan on Monday, killing at least seven people, and sparking a small radiation leak and fire at the world's biggest nuclear power plant.
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A powerful explosion ripped through an American military base in northern Iraq today, killing more than 20 people.