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BEIRUT, Aug. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- A woman was killed and two people were wounded in explosions caused by three small bombs in a building in a village southeast of Beirut on Sunday morning, the official NNA news agency reported. The attacks originally targeted the owner of the building, George Akouri, a sergeant in charge of a prison in the region of Roumieh, NNA quoted local security sources as saying. The explosions occurred at the first floor of the building, which killed Akouri's mother-in-law and wounded one of his relatives. The identity of the other injured was not confirmed yet. The...

SAN`A: A bomb went off in the southern port of Aden on Saturday, hours after an explosion in the capital San'a, witnesses said. No casualties were reported. Witnesses in Aden, who refused to be futher identified, said the bomb went off behind the house of Aden intelligence chief Hussein al-Anisi. It shattered windows at nearby houses but caused no other damage. They said the bomb was tied to a gas cylinder, which failed to explode. Late on Friday, a bomb exploded in San'a in a street close to the offices of the government-owned gas company. Officials refused to comment on...

Two small bombs exploded in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul on Monday, but there were no reports of injuries, the Anatolia news agency said. The first bomb, placed inside a garbage can, exploded in a park in the Besiktas district on the European side of the city, the report added. The second explosion occurred in a public square in front of the historical Sultanahmet Mosque, an area frequently visited by tourists which is also in the European quarter. The bombs were designed to cause little damage and maximum noise, the agency said. There was no immediate police statement on who could...

There is a small town in southeastern Oklahoma where people work in a vast factory unlike any other factory in the United States. The people of McAlester are so good at what they do, and have been doing it for so long, that they have 100% market share in the product they build. And they build an important product -- one that is central to America's security. What these men and women build are bombs -- the bombs that drove Saddam Hussein's troops from Kuwait during the Gulf War, the bombs that have pounded Afghanistan. Many of the 850 people...

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LONDON (Reuters) - Cannon balls retrieved from ancient shipwrecks are wreaking thunderous havoc centuries later -- by exploding on the desks of archaeologists, New Scientist magazine said Wednesday. Robert Child, of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales in Cardiff, told the magazine that he had recorded several instances where the old rusted balls of metal started to heat up and turn red, or explode after being exposed to oxygen. In one case, a ball retrieved from a 1691 wreck heated up to a few hundred degrees after several minutes in the open air, began to glow a dull red...