At the start of Donald Trump's presidency, American intelligence agencies told the new administration that while North Korea had built the bomb, there was still ample time — upward of four years — to slow or stop its development of a missile capable of hitting an American city with a nuclear warhead, according to The New York Times (NYT).
The death toll from the most powerful bomb blast witnessed in Somalia's capital rose to 189 with more than 200 injured, making it the deadliest single attack ever in the Horn of Africa nation, police and hospital sources said Sunday, according to Associated Press.
An Islamist terrorist bomb plot was foiled in Paris on Saturday after an improvised explosive device was found near Paris Saint-Germain football club, according to the Daily Mail.
Ukrainian Interior Ministry spokesperson Artem Shevchenko has revealed details about a car explosion in Kyiv on Friday, September 8, saying that preliminary findings show that a Toyota Camry with Georgian license plates was blown up by means of a planted explosive device, having killed Georgian citizen Timur Makhauri and severely injured a woman in the car; the third passenger, a child, was not harmed.
Agents of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine have detained the man who reported false bomb threats in four stations of Kyiv's Metro subway on Sunday, July 2.
A powerful bomb exploded in the morning rush hour in the center of the Afghan capital on Wednesday, killing or wounding hundreds of people and sending clouds of black smoke into the sky above the presidential palace and foreign embassies, according to Reuters.
A 250-kilogram unexploded bomb of the Second World War was discovered in Odesa region's Rozdilnianskyi district on April 28, when carrying out excavation works near the village of Stepanivka, according to the press service of the State Emergency Service in Odesa region.
Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai accused his successor on Saturday of committing treason by allowing the U.S. military to drop the largest conventional bomb ever used in combat during an operation against Islamic State militants in Afghanistan, according to Reuters.
U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with "the mother of all bombs," the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said, according to the Associated Press.
Norwegian police said on Sunday that they had raised the country's security threat level the day after an explosive was found near a busy subway station in Oslo. Authorities also announced that they had apprehended a suspect over the incident, Deutsche Welle reported.