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A member of the Somali security forces flees the site of a car bomb in central Mogadishu, Somalia, on March 18, 2013.

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A woman reacts near the site of a car bomb in central Mogadishu on March 18, 2013.

Reuters reports — A car bomb exploded near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least 10 people in a blast that appeared to target senior government officials, police said.

The suicide attacker detonated explosives while driving along a boulevard that runs between the palace and the national theatre, a route lined by tearooms that were engulfed in fire moments after the blast, senior police officer Abdiqadir Mohamud said. A public minibus driving along the road burst into flames.

"The suicide car bomber targeted a senior national security officer whose car was passing near the theatre," Mohamud told Reuters. "Most of the people who died were on board the minibus - civilians. This public vehicle coincidentally came between the government car and the car bomb when it was hit." Read the full story.

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An injured man sits on the road near the presidential palace in Mogadishu on March 18, 2013.

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Syrian security agents next to a vehicle on fire following a huge explosion in Damascus on Feb. 21, 2013.

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Vehicles burn near a crater on a road after an explosion in central Damascus on Feb. 21, 2013

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Syrian state TV says 53 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in a car bomb attack near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party in central Damascus.

The bomb was one of at least three attacks in the heart of the city on Thursday. A second blast shook another neighborhood and mortar rounds exploded near the Syrian Army General Command.

The Britain-based activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 42 had been killed in the car bombing, most of them civilians.

The difference in the death tolls could not be immediately reconciled. Click here for updates on this developing story.

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A thick black pall of smoke fills the air close to the site of a large explosion in Damascus on Feb. 21, 2013.

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Wounded men sit near destroyed cars and other damage following a large explosion in Damascus on Feb. 21, 2013.

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Syrian security agents carrying a body following a huge explosion that shook central Damascus on Feb. 21, 2013.

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Clouds of smoke swirling around destroyed cars following a large explosion in Damascus on Feb. 21, 2013.

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An injured man lying on the ground after a huge explosion in Damascus on Feb. 21, 2013.

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A bus is seen in flames at the site of a bomb explosion in Karachi, Pakistan, Dec. 29. Six people were killed and 48 wounded, police and a hospital official said.

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A Pakistani woman grieves after losing her son in the blast.

Pakistan's commercial capital and biggest city has seen numerous militant attacks over the past 10 years and is also plagued by violence between rival ethnic-based factions.

The bus was destroyed in the explosion and a subsequent fire. Police said the bomb had been planted on the bus, but provincial official Sharfud Din Memon said it was left on a motorbike and went off as the bus passed.

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People carry an injured man away from the scene of a bomb explosion.

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Firefighters douse a bus after a bomb explosion in Karachi.

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Neighbors react a day after a bomb blast on Zahra Shiite mosque in the Hurriya neighborhood of Baghdad on Nov. 28, 2012.

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A man stands amid debris after a bomb attack in the Shuala district of Baghdad on November 28, 2012. The deadliest of three attacks occurred in the Shuala district, where a car bomb parked outside a Shiite place of worship exploded as people were leaving the building, killing nine.

Reuters reports — Three car bombings killed 23 Shiite Muslims during mourning processions in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Tuesday, police and hospital sources said.

Bombs target Kurds in Iraq's disputed north

Dozens more were injured in the explosions. They struck during the holy month of Ashoura, of special significance to Shiites who are prime targets of al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate and other Sunni Muslim insurgents. Read the full story.

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Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in the Shuala district of Baghdad on Nov. 28, 2012.

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People react at the scene of a bomb attack in Kirkuk, Iraq on Nov. 27, 2012. Three parked car bombs exploded Tuesday morning simultaneously in the city of Kirkuk, home to a combustible mix of Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Turkomen who all claim rights to the city, police said.

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A Kurdish security officer stands guard next to the destroyed headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK) after a bomb attack in Kirkuk on Nov. 27, 2012.

Reuters reports — Bombs targeting ethnic Kurds killed four people on Tuesday in the city of Kirkuk in Iraq's disputed northern territories, where the Iraqi army and troops from the autonomous Kurdistan region have been in stand-off for more than a week.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the attacks although Sunni Islamist insurgents including a local affiliate of al Qaeda continue to strike regularly, killing 144 people across Iraq in October alone.

After decades of oppression, Kurds in Syria get taste of freedom

The latest bomb attacks come after troops from Baghdad and the Kurdistan region moved in last week on the territories over which both the central government and the Kurds claim jurisdiction. Read the full story.

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Police and security personnel rush to the site of a bombing on a bus in Tel Aviv, Israel on Nov. 21, 2012.

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Rescue workers and paramedics carry a wounded person from the site of a bus bombing in Tel Aviv on Nov. 21, 2012.

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Police officers examine a blown up bus at the site of a bombing in Tel Aviv on Nov. 21, 2012.

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A wounded person is taken away from the site of a bus bombing in Tel Aviv on Nov. 21, 2012.

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By NBC News staff and wire reports — An explosion on a bus in Tel Aviv Wednesday injured 10 people, three seriously, a medical official told NBC News as the deadly Gaza crisis continued.

The blast happened as Israeli airstrikes continued to shake the Gaza Strip and Palestinian rockets were fired into Israel, amid negotiations about a possible truce.

"This was a terrorist attack," Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told Reuters.

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People gather at the site where a car bomb exploded in the Al Rawda area of Jaramana, southern Damascus, on October 29, 2012.

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People inspecting damage at the site where a car bomb exploded in the Al Rawda area of Jaramana, southern Damascus on October 29, 2012.

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A general view of the site where a car bomb exploded.

NBC News wire services report — Syrian jets bombed suburbs of Damascus and a car bomb killed 10 people in the capital on Monday, the last day of a four-day truce that U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon acknowledged had failed.

Each side blamed the other for breaching the Eid al-Adha truce arranged by international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who nevertheless promised to pursue his peace efforts.

Syrian state television said women and children were among those killed or wounded by a "terrorist car bomb" near a bakery in Jaramana, in the southeast of Damascus. Local residents say the district is controlled by Assad loyalists. Read the full story.

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People gathering at the site of the explosion.

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An injured girl on a stretcher after receiving first aid.

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People in a damaged building at the site of the explosion.

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A crater caused by the detonation of a World War II bomb is seen in Viersen, Germany, Sept. 17. During a construction project, a British bomb containing acid fuses was discovered. The bomb was not diffusible and therefore had to be detonated. Parts of Viersen were evacuated.

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A handout picture by the Fire Department of Munich made available on August 29, 2012 shows firefighters walking past a burning protective wall after the controlled blasting of an unexploded WWII-era bomb in Munich, Germany, early on August 29.

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Firemen extinguishing a fire which broke out in a neighboring building after the blast.

Nearly 3,000 residents were evacuated from the heart of Munich on Tuesday before explosives experts detonated the remains of an undetonated, 550-pound World War II bomb, Andy Eckardt of NBC News reports.

Bales of straw which had been placed around the bomb to cushion the shock of the detonation were set ablaze and thrown through the air by the detonation, according to the European Pressphoto Agency. Some of them landed on the roofs of neighboring buildings and ignited fires. 

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Before the controlled explosion, the bomb was covered with sand bags as nearly 3,000 people left their homes nearby.

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