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A morgue and a hospital in the capital of the Republic of Congo have taken in 206 bodies of those killed in blasts caused by an arms depot fire in the capital.

Three people were dead. three missing and two hospitalized after an explosion at a large grain elevator in Atchison, Kansas, City Manager Trey Cocking said on Sunday.

Two explosions struck outside a bank in Saddam Hussein’s hometown, as soldiers were lining up to cash paychecks.

The 32-year-old man accused of devastating twin attacks in Norway now maintains that two cells of extremists collaborated with him, court officials said here Monday as they ordered solitary confinement for the suspect. The police also significantly reduced the confirmed death toll in the Friday attacks to 76 instead of 93 — still one of the worst mass killings in postwar Europe.

At least 80 people died when a gunman opened fire at a Norwegian island youth camp, hours after a bomb attack on the capital, Oslo.

A massive bomb shattered Norway's main government building in Oslo Friday, killing two people police were quoted as saying by local news agency NTB.

An explosion struck a subway station in the Belarus capital of Minsk on Monday, Russian state media reported.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but police suspect anarchist movements. Two parcel bombs exploded inside the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome on Thursday, injuring an employee at each diplomatic post.

At least 14 people were killed and 33 injured after an oil pipeline exploded Sunday morning in central Mexico, officials said.

Two explosions, one of them destroying a car, killed a man and injured two other people in a busy Stockholm district on Saturday, media reports said.