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AP - Unstable concrete, hanging steel beams and other damage caused by a powerful explosion that ripped through a Kansas grain elevator are complicating efforts to find three more people likely killed in the blast. More...

(CNN) -- Emergency workers are evaluating a Boston College student who was at the scene of a chemistry lab explosion Saturday morning, authorities said. The Boston Fire Department arrived at the Merkert Chemistry Center at 10:47 a.m. A Twitter post from Boston Fire said the student left the...

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suicide bomber in an explosive-laden car rammed into a police station in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Wednesday in a Taliban attack that killed seven police officers and injured several others, a senior police official said. The Pakistani Taliban said the attack was to...

(CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was not hurt Tuesday after an explosion at an oil refinery that he was visiting, Iran's FARS news agency reported. The blast at the Abadan oil refinery injured six people and was caused by technical problems, the agency reported. Undaunted by the...

A blast hit a metro station in the center of the Belarusian capital Minsk on Monday and police said some people had been killed. The state news agency BelTA said the blast occurred at 5.55 p.m. (11:55 a.m. ET) at the metro station Oktyabrskaya on a square of the same name about 100 meters...

http://www.wgntv.com/videobeta/92e9cabd-9c99-449c-b825-98c135650946/News/Kenosha-explosion-latest KENOSHA, WI — A blast felt two miles away rocked a quiet section of Kenosha, Wisconsin last night, leveling a vacant house and damaging at least nine others, fire officials said. Only minor...

Manila, Philippines -- A blast at a Christmas Day Mass injured six people in southern Philippines, including the priest officiating the service, authorities said. Police said an improvised explosive device tore off the right side of the chapel's roof. "The injuries were minor, but what really...

Mounties in Squamish, B.C., are investigating after a car was destroyed by an explosive device on Saturday night. Squamish RCMP were called to a report of an explosion in a residential driveway on Skyline Drive at about 11:39 p.m. PT. Police say a 1988 Jeep Cherokee, one of four vehicles in...

B.C., Alberta residents die, injured mainly from Ontario. Mexican officials are trying to determine what caused a gas explosion at a Playa del Carmen hotel on the weekend that killed two Mexicans and five Canadians, including a nine-year-old boy and a newlywed. The explosion, which officials...

Islamabad, Pakistan -- Six people were killed early Monday morning when a bomb exploded at one of Pakistan's largest Sufi shrines, authorities said. Fifteen others were wounded. The bomb exploded at the Baba Farid shrine in Pakpattan shortly after dawn prayers, when crowds of morning worshipers...

Blast shakes Gaza Strip GAZA, A powerful explosion in the Gaza Strip Sunday rocked the home of a senior Hamas military commander, the BBC reported. The British network said Hamas sources told it the militant leader, Alaa al-Danaf, escaped injury but his brother Abed was among up to 30 people...

Thais probe blast near party headquarters BANGKOK, (UPI) -- Thailand's deputy prime minister says an investigation will determine whether an explosion near Bhumjaithai Party headquarters was politically motivated. Suthep Thaugsuban declined to comment on Tuesday's blast until police have...

1 worker dead in Texas pipeline blast GRANBURY, Texas, (UPI) -- A huge explosion and fire caused by a ruptured gas line Monday in Johnson County, Texas, left one worker dead and seven others injured, officials said. The blast was reported at about 2:45 and the fire, featuring flames estimated...

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Early morning blast damages New York coffee shop -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW YORK (Reuters) - An explosion on Monday damaged a coffee shop in New York, according to police who were investigating whether the blast was linked to earlier...