Category Archives: Explosion

Nigerian underwear bomber to be sentenced in Detroit

By doris | Published: February 16, 2012

Full Story at Yahoo.com DETROIT (Reuters) – A federal judge is set to decide on Thursday if the Nigerian man who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit in 2009 will spend the rest of his life in prison. A bomb hidden in the underwear of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, [...]

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Mass. man accused of plotting attack on Pentagon, Capitol

By doris | Published: September 28, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com BOSTON — A Massachusetts man was arrested and charged Wednesday with plotting to attack the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol with a remote-controlled aircraft filled with plastic explosives, federal officials said.Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, of Ashland, was also charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to al-Qaida in order to carry [...]

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Rebels, troops battle near Moammar Gadhafi’s compound; no sign of dictator

By doris | Published: August 22, 2011

Full Story at  msnbc.com TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan government tanks and snipers put up scattered, last-ditch resistance in Tripoli on Monday after rebels swept into the heart of the capital, cheered on by crowds hailing the end of Moammar Gadhafi’s 42 years in power.The 69-year-old leader, urging civilians to take up arms against rebel “rats,” [...]

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Forces in Afghanistan kill militants involved in downing of copter

By doris | Published: August 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Coalition forces in Afghanistan have killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for the downing of a helicopter that left 38 U.S. and Afghan personnel dead, the commander of U.S. forces there and NATO announced Wednesday. A precision airstrike killed Mullah Mohibullah — a Taliban leader — and the [...]

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Gas pipeline to Jordan set ablaze in Egypt

By doris | Published: February 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A pipeline that sends natural gas to Jordan was set on fire in the Egyptian Sinai town of El Arish on Saturday, and the suspected act of sabotage has forced its temporary closing, officials said. Ghaleb Al Maabreh, head of Jordan’s national electricity company, confirmed the closing. He said [...]

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9/11 workers approve settlement with New York City

By doris | Published: November 20, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — A settlement in New York City will pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to ground zero workers exposed to toxic debris after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, lawyers said Friday. Plaintiffs narrowly approved the deal after facing a Tuesday night deadline that required 95 percent [...]

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China coal mine explosion kills 20, traps 17

By doris | Published: October 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com BEIJING — A dawn explosion in a Chinese coal mine killed 20 and trapped 17 workers underground Saturday in the country’s central region, a national work safety official said. The blast came shortly after the world was riveted by Chile’s dramatic rescue of 33 trapped miners after they spent more than [...]

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More than 200 rescued from blazing ferry in Baltic

By doris | Published: October 9, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com BERLIN — More than 200 passengers and crew were evacuated after a ferry caught fire near the German island of Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea, German authorities said Saturday. The Lithuanian passenger and car ferry Lisco Gloria was en route from the northern city of Kiel to the Lithuanian port of [...]

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Aging gas pipe at risk of explosion nationwide

By doris | Published: September 14, 2010

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com SAN BRUNO, Calif. – The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there. Utilities have been under pressure for years to better inspect and replace aging gas [...]

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Calif. orders survey of all natural gas lines

By doris | Published: September 13, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com SAN BRUNO, Calif. — California regulators are ordering Pacific Gas and Electric to survey all its natural gas lines in the state in the wake of a devastating suburban San Francisco blast that killed at least four. The order issued by the state’s Public Utilities Commission Sunday comes after the explosion [...]

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Nine years after 9/11, a photo provides some peace

By doris | Published: September 11, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Judson Box has never known exactly how his son, Gary, died on September 11, 2001. But an unexpected find nine years later has given him a glimpse into his son’s final hours. Gary, then 35, had been working as a firefighter in Brooklyn for roughly five years [...]

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3 burned in gas explosion in Oklahoma

By doris | Published: June 30, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Three workers were burned Tuesday when a gas line exploded in a rural area west of Pocasset, Oklahoma, according to Deputy Chief Brian Zalewski of the Chickasha, Oklahoma, fire department. Zalewski told CNN all three workers were taken to an Oklahoma City hospital, suffering from injuries caused by burns [...]

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Sheriff: 2 dead in Texas pipeline blast

By doris | Published: June 9, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com DARROUZETT, Texas – Two men removing clay from a pit in a remote part of the Texas Panhandle were killed when a natural gas line exploded, a sheriff said Tuesday. The blast near Darrouzett, about 270 miles northeast of Lubbock, was the second fatal natural gas explosion in Texas in as [...]

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Gulf spill: Worse than Exxon Valdez?

By doris | Published: April 30, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The oil leak triggered by a deadly rig blast off the coast of Louisiana has the potential to cause more environmental damage than the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, one of the largest ecological disasters ever recorded, some observers say. “As it is now, it’s already looking like this could be the [...]

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Efforts to stop leak under way after oil rig explosion

By doris | Published: April 27, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Efforts were under way Sunday to contain and stop oil leaking from a well after a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Officials found oil was leaking Saturday from the well. The Deepwater Horizon oil rig was drilling when it exploded Tuesday night, [...]

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Search for Missing Oil Rig Workers Called Off

By doris | Published: April 24, 2010

Full Story at CBS News.com The Coast Guard is calling off its search for 11 workers missing since an explosion on an oil rig off the Louisiana coast. Rear Adm. Mary Landry calls it a very difficult decision. The Coast Guard said Friday crews had spent three days searching a large area surrounding the rig, [...]

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