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Latest News
- Ukraine: At least one person killed in explosions near railway station in Frankivsk
March 11, 2025
According to the police of Ivano-Frankivsk region, 2 explosions occurred in the city near apartment buildings on Pryvokzalna Street. Three people were injured. The explosions were reported around 18:30. Ukrzaliznytsia reported ...
- Nigeria: Landmine explosion kills one in Niger state
March 11, 2025
A man identified as Basiru Hassan has died after stepping on an explosive device suspected to have been planted by bandits in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. According to ...
- South Australia: Man arrested after an operation targeting drugs in the Yorke Peninsula
March 10, 2025
A man has been arrested after an operation targeting drugs in the Yorke Peninsula. On Friday 7 March as part of Operation Strike, an initiative aimed to disrupt drug activity in ...
- Florida: Thefts at athletes’ homes underscore weakness in post-9/11 anti-terrorist program
March 10, 2025
Some of the people suspected of being members of a theft ring charged with slipping into the homes of famous athletes to rob them entered the United States legally. But ...
- Nigeria: 11 killed as militants burn six Kebbi villages in reprisal attack
March 10, 2025
The Kebbi State Police Command has confirmed the killing of 11 people and the destruction of six villages in a reprisal attack by Lakurawa militants in the Arewa Local Government ...
- New South Wales: Police say Sydney’s Dural caravan incident was ‘fabricated terrorist plot’
March 10, 2025
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has announced that a caravan found in Dural filled with explosives was not a genuine antisemitic terrorist plot. In January, a tip-off was received by authorities ...
- Malaysia tightens border security following deadly attack in Sungai Golok, Thailand
March 9, 2025
The police have confirmed that no Malaysian was involved in the shooting and explosion that occurred in Sungai Golok, Thailand last night. Kelantan police chief Datuk Mohd Yusoff Mamat said security ...
- India: CID to get blast containers for bomb squads at 2 airports
March 9, 2025
West Bengal’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is all set to procure two Total Containment Vessel (TCV) on trailer for its Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) units of Kazi Nazrul ...
- Pakistan: Two security personnel killed in Bajaur blast
March 8, 2025
Two security personnel were martyred and two others injured when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in a hilly area of Salarzai tehsil here on Friday evening. Sources told ...
- UN crew member killed in attack on helicopter in South Sudan
March 7, 2025
A United Nations helicopter attempting to evacuate South Sudanese soldiers has come under fire near the town of Nasir, the UN mission (UNMISS) there said, resulting in the death of ...
- India: Labourer killed, another injured in IED blast in Narayanpur
March 7, 2025
A labourer was killed, and another sustained serious injuries on Friday after an improvised explosive device (IED) allegedly planted by Maoists exploded at an iron ore mine in Narayanpur district, ...
- Pakistan: Police officer injured in Bannu IED explosion
March 7, 2025
A cop sustained injuries while the police mobile van partially damaged in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion on Bannu Link Road on Thursday. The Domail police mobile van was on ...
- Syria monitor says security forces kill 136 Alawite civilians
March 7, 2025
A Syria war monitor said Friday that security forces killed 136 members of the Alawite minority, to which toppled president Bashar al-Assad belongs, a day after deadly clashes with gunmen ...
- France: ‘Really huge’ unexploded WWII bomb found outside Paris halts Eurostar travel
March 7, 2025
Eurostar trains to London and all trains heading to northern France were brought to a halt Friday following the discovery of an unexploded World War II-era bomb on tracks leading ...
- US Army, Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians train to defeat explosive drones
March 6, 2025
FORT JOHNSON, La. – U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians recently trained together to confront and defeat explosive drones. Army EOD technicians from the Fort Johnson, Louisiana-based ...
- Nigeria: Militants issue evacuation warning, threaten oil attacks in Rivers
March 6, 2025
A militant group, Niger Delta Rescue Movement has threatened to attack oil installations in the Niger Delta region over the seizure of the allocation due to Rivers State. Also, the group ...
- Somalia: Mogadishu flights suspended after US Embassy warning
March 6, 2025
It is understood that Turkish Airlines and Qatar Airways have cancelled flights to and from Mogadishu, Somalia, following a warning from the US of a “potential imminent attack” at Aden ...
- Syrian forces in deadly clashes with Assad-linked fighters in Latakia
March 6, 2025
Gunmen loyal to deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 15 security personnel in ambushes in the coastal province of Latakia, a security source told Al Jazeera. The attacks ...
- South Korea: 15 injured after KF-16 fighter jets mistakenly drop bombs outside training range
March 6, 2025
Fifteen people were injured Thursday after two Air Force KF-16 fighter jets mistakenly dropped eight air-to-surface bombs outside a training range during live-fire drills, military officials and fire authorities said, ...
