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http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=161463
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“Iran Quake Damages Buildings, no Casualty Reports The quake hit an area near the city of Torbat Heidariyeh in the province of Khorassan.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Iran on Friday, causing cracks in some buildings, but there were no reports of any casualties, state radio said.
The quake hit at around 3:40 a.m. (2310 GMT on Thursday) near the town of Torbat Heidariyeh in the province of Khorassan, prompting thousands of people to rush out of their homes into the streets, the radio said.”
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http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnL04687685.html
“Explosion in Belarus hurts 50”
Fri 4 Jul 2008, 6:47 GMT
By Andrei Makhovsky
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “MINSK (Reuters) - About 50 people were injured when a home-made bomb exploded in Belarus’s capital early Friday at an outdoor Independence Day concert attended by long-time ruler President Alexander Lukashenko, officials said.
Lukashenko, criticised by the West for ruling the ex-Soviet state with an iron grip since the mid-1990s, reacted by moving over to check the site of the blast, his spokesman said.
“The president was not far. He reached the site of the explosion within several minutes. He did not stay long so as not to interfere with the work of the emergency services,” presidential spokesman Pavel Legkiy told Reuters.
Legkiy said Lukashenko was not the target.
“This was not an attempted assassination of the president,” he said, adding that the bomb was aimed at those attending the concert, held in a large park.
A police official said earlier the likely motive for the bomb was “hooliganism” — a term commonly used by officials in former Soviet states to play down the significance of an attack.”