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Fire and Fear: The deadly building explosion in France's Marseille
Fp Staff •An apartment building collapsed after a major explosion on Sunday in Marseille, a city on the French Mediterranean coast. Four bodies have been recovered and rescue efforts are still on
Days after Peshawar blast, at least five injured in Quetta explosion
Fp Staff •The explosion occurs only days after a horrifying suicide bombing claimed over 80 people, predominantly police officers, in the Peshawar Police Lines region
Turkey: Explosion in coal mine kills 25, several still trapped
•The explosion occurred at the state-owned TTK Amasra Muessese Mudurlugu mine in the town of Amasra, in the Black Sea coastal province of Bartin
Ukraine War: Multiple explosions rock eastern city of Kharkiv
•The blasts came hours after Russia concentrated attacks in its increasingly troubled invasion of Ukraine on areas it illegally annexed, while the death toll from earlier missile strikes in Zaporizhzhia rose to 14
Lebanon: Large section of smouldering Beirut Port silos collapses in a cloud of dust, no injuries reported
•The collapse left the silos' southern part standing next to a pile of charred ruins. The northern block had already been slowly tipping over since the initial explosion two years ago but rapidly deteriorated after it caught fire over a month ago due to fermenting grains
Explosions rock Russian military air base in annexed Crimea, one person killed
•Russian Defense Ministry denied that the Saki base on the Black Sea had been shelled, instead claiming that bombs had exploded there. However, reports on Ukrainian social networks suggested that it was hit by long-range missiles fired from Ukraine
Cuba seeks help to contain fuel depot fire that has killed at least one, injured over a hundred
•Some 1,900 people have been evacuated from the affected area, according to officials from the western Matanzas province, where lightning struck a fuel tank late Friday, triggering an explosion
Afghanistan: Death toll from four bombs that ripped through minibuses and a mosque rises to 16
•On 25 May, at least 10 people were killed when three bombs placed on separate minibuses exploded in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif
RPG attack in Punjab puts the spotlight on the one-shot disposable anti-tank rocket launcher
Fp Explainers •A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the Intelligence Wing HQ of Punjab Police in Mohali on Monday. This type of weapon has been used in the past during the 2000 attack on the headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service
Attackers fired RPG-22 at Punjab Police's Intel HQ in Mohali, police refuse to rule out terror angle
Fp Staff •On Monday evening, a rocket-propelled grenade hit the Intelligence Department headquarters of Punjab Police in sector 77, SAS Nagar in Mohali. Windowpanes on one of the floors of the building were shattered