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KABUL—A blast tore through a mosque in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday evening, killing at least five people, authorities and hospitals said, the same day deadly explosions ...
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The death toll in an explosion that rocked the city of Kano in northwest Nigeria has risen to nine, authorities say. Earlier, Kano’s Police Commissioner, Sama’ila ...
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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — An explosion and fire at a chemical plant in southeast Slovenia has left five people missing and feared dead, officials said Thursday. ...
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KABUL—A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, its leader said, the latest in a series of attacks on ...
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ABUJA—A blast in the capital of Nigeria’s northeastern Taraba state on Friday evening injured 11 people including children, police said, days after an explosion claimed by ...
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—A strong explosion near a gold mining site in southwestern Burkina Faso killed 59 people and injured more than 100 others Monday, the national ...
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Police said at least 15 people are dead after a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest at a crowded restaurant in Beledweyne, the capital of Somalia’s ...
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NAIROBI, Kenya—A local official in northeastern Kenya says at least 10 people are dead after their vehicle ran over an explosive device on a highway Monday ...
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KARACHI, Pakistan—The death toll from a sewer gas blast in Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi jumped to 17 as some critically injured people died overnight and ...
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Haitian rescue workers have found 61 bodies at the site of a fuel truck explosion in the city of Cap-Haitien, a fire department official said on ...
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RAVANUSA, Italy—Rescuers have pulled four more bodies out of the rubble of houses destroyed by a suspected gas explosion in the Sicilian town of Ravanusa, bringing ...
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PARIS—French rescuers retrieved two more bodies Wednesday from the rubble of an apartment building in southern France that collapsed in a suspected gas explosion, bringing the ...
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At least 52 people, including six emergency rescuers, died in a coal mine accident in southern Russia, the country’s worst mining disaster in a decade. Russian authorities ...
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MOGADISHU, Somalia—A large explosion outside a school in Somalia’s capital on Thursday killed at least eight people, including students, witnesses said. The extremist group al-Shabab claimed ...
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LIVERPOOL, England—British police have identified the suspect behind a suicide explosion that engulfed a taxi in flames outside a hospital in Liverpool on Remembrance Sunday. Authorities have ...
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FREETOWN—At least 99 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the capital of Sierra Leone late on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following ...
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An explosion that was immediately followed by a deadly assault at a large military hospital in the capital of Afghanistan killed more than a dozen people ...
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DUNWOODY, Ga.—Gas has been temporarily turned off at an apartment complex in an Atlanta suburb where a building partially collapsed during a weekend explosion, sending four ...
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Chaos ensues as the Kabul airport is hit by at least two explosions. Civilians and U.S. service members were among the casualties. Afghan families in the ...
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There have been two explosions outside Kabul airport Thursday, where large crowds of people are trying to flee Afghanistan. Russian officials say at least 13 people ...
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KABUL—A blast near the office of Afghanistan’s main security agency wounded three people on Wednesday hours after a bomb and gun attack on a minister’s compound ...
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Heavy rainfall in central China’s Henan Province caused a 66-foot-wide breach in a local dam. Chinese soldiers later blasted a gap in the middle of the dam ...
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More than a dozen people, including Chinese nationals and Pakistani soldiers, were killed in a blast targeting a bus in a remote region of northern Pakistan ...
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A blast on a bus killed 13 people in north Pakistan on Wednesday, including nine Chinese nationals in what Beijing said was a bomb attack but ...
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FARMERSVILLE, Texas—Two people were killed and three injured in a natural gas pipeline explosion in Texas, officials said. The deadly blast happened around 4 p.m. Monday ...
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KABUL—The death toll from a bomb attack outside a school in the Afghan capital Kabul has risen to 68, officials said on Sunday, with doctors struggling ...
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KABUL—A roadside bomb killed four people in a bus carrying Afghan government staff in Kabul on Thursday, a day after nine members of the security forces ...
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveils his budget, vowing to protect jobs and the livelihoods of British people. A blast strikes a COVID-19 test center in the Netherlands, ...
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An Israeli-owned cargo ship that suffered a mysterious explosion in the Gulf of Oman came to Dubai's port for repairs Sunday.
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An apparent steam explosion in a maintenance building at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Connecticut killed two people Friday, and a third person is missing.