Channel 4 News
| Sep 26, 2012
Video has been released showing the moment a suicide attacker targeted Syria's army headquarters in Damascus. State TV quoted army sources saying that four people were killed and 14 hurt in the attacks on the military's headquarters in the capita...
Al Jazeera English
| Aug 25, 2012
A fire is still burning in Venezuela at one of the world's biggest oil refineries. An explosion at the facility early on Saturday killed 24 people and injured 80. Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman reports.
Al Jazeera English
| Aug 21, 2012
A 12-year old girl has become the ninth person to die following Monday's car bomb attack on the Turkish city of Gaziantep. Four children are now known to have died in the bomb blast. Hundreds of people gathered on the streets of the southeaste...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Aug 15, 2012
Syrian state TV has broadcast footage of the aftermath of a bomb attached to a fuel tanker that exploded close to a UN hotel in central Damascus, injuring three people. Syrian deputy foreign minister Faisal Mekdad condemned the attack as a crimina...
Russia Today
| Aug 15, 2012
Three were wounded when a bomb exploded on Wednesday, just meters away from the Damas Rose hotel in Damascus, Syria, where UN monitors are headquartered. None of those reported injured were believed to be UN staff.
Associated Press
| Aug 15, 2012
An explosion and fire Wednesday morning hit the area in the Syrian capital near the hotel where United Nations observers are staying. State television said three people were hurt, but government officials said all UN personnel were safe.
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...that if his party was elected a third time, he would build a motorway from Lahore to Karachi, Pakistan's business capital on the Arabian Sea. "I...
An explosion is a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases. Supersonic explosions created by high explosives are known as detonations and travel via supersonic shock waves. Subsonic explosions are created by low explosives through a slower burning process known as deflagration.
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