Reporter recounts experience in Moscow metro before bombing

March 29, 2010   1 Comment  

Russia Today presenter Yulia Shapovalova ended her shift Monday morning and made her way down to the Park Kultury metro station.

Israeli bombs ’cause birth defects’ in Gaza strip

Dec. 27, 2009   Leave a Comment  

High levels of toxins caused by the bombs, as well as the trauma of the war, is cited as one of the main reasons doctors are seeing a higher number of defects in children born since 2006.

Indictment announced in New York terrorism case

Sept. 24, 2009   1 Comment  

A 24-year-old Colorado resident was indicted in a New York federal court Thursday on charges of conspiracy to use explosive bombs in the United States.

Civilians attack Taliban to avenge mosque bombing

June 7, 2009   2 Comments  

An angry, armed mob attacked five villages and destroyed 20 houses suspected to belong to Taliban forces. Seven Taliban fighters were killed in the surge and the villagers now occupy three villages and are attempting to push the Taliban out of the other two.

More bombs blast through Pakistan

May 28, 2009   Leave a Comment  

More bombs exploded in Pakistan today, this time in the busy city of Peshawar. Two separate attacks were executed, one near a military checkpoint where a suicide bomber detonated himself and killed four soldiers and the other, in a busy market, where two motorcycles carrying time bombs exploded to kill six and injure 70, according to bomb disposal squad chief Shafqat Malik, BBC reports.

Poking the Bear: Why North Korea did it and what it means for Asia-Pacific

May 25, 2009   Leave a Comment  

North Korea, one of the pillars of Bush’s “axis of evil”, conducted an underground test of a nuclear bomb last night about 50 miles northwest of the northern city of Kilju. According to predictions by Russian officials, the bomb generated a blast of between 10 and 20 kilotons, which places it in the range of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”; the two atomic bombs that ravaged the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

Dumbest woman in the world tries to bring pipe bombs to police station

May 9, 2009   2 Comments  

Here is your daily dose of Darwin. According to Newsday, a Long Island, N.Y. woman found two pipe bombs in her driveway. But rather than, you know, panic, freak out, call the police, run away, and scream, the woman picked up — reached out with her hands and picked up — the two pipe bombs, [...]

Tokers, not terrorists, cause police and fire fracas downtown

April 30, 2009   Leave a Comment  

No, Boston is not in the grips of a mad scientist with anthrax. Nor is it under siege from a series of terrorist briefcase bombs. It was pot, marijuana, Mary Jane, grass, weed and a whole lot of it that tied up half the emergency services in the city Thursday afternoon. Mailroom workers at One [...]