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Australian child takes grenade for ‘show and tell’
An Australian school was evacuated Wednesday after a child took a hand grenade into a classroom for a “show and tell” lesson, police said. The grenade resembles a World War II “pineapple” model and was believed to be inert but police said it would not be moved from a teacher’s…
Three-year-old stands on hand grenade at Easter egg hunt
A community in England received quite the scare with its Easter egg hunt this past weekend, where a three-year-boy was standing on top of an egg shaped hand grenade. According to The Daily Mail, the hand grenade was spotted by Stuart Moffat, a father of three, who alerted the pre-school…
U.S. soldier pleads guilty to murder in Afghanistan
TACOMA, Wash (Reuters) – A second of five U.S. soldiers accused of killing Afghan villagers in cold blood pleaded guilty on Thursday to committing murder, saying he made a “bad decision” when he shot a teenage boy he knew was unarmed. Private Andrew Holmes, 21, who last year professed his…
Female suicide bomber hits Pakistan
A female suicide attacker and a handcart bomb targeted Pakistani police on Thursday, killing seven people in the first deadly attacks to hit the northwest during Ramadan, officials said. The city of Peshawar, where the bombs struck, is on the frontline of a Taliban insurgency and borders Pakistan’s lawless tribal…
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