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Russian Armed Forces Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov was killed by an explosive device.

Ukraine kills Russia’s nuclear forces boss with e-scooter bomb

An explosive device planted near a Moscow apartment building slayed Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov.

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  • Anton Troianovski and Constant Méheut

September

Civil Defence first responders carry a man who was wounded after his handheld pager exploded in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon.

Hundreds of pagers exploded in Lebanon and Syria. Here’s what we know

Tiny explosive hardware may have been built into the devices before their delivery to Hezbollah, and then all remotely triggered simultaneously.

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  • Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Michael Biesecker, Sarah El Deeb and Sarah Parvini

February

The C4 unit at Callide power station in Queensland blew up in May 2021.

$300m insurance claim goes boom after power station explosion

CS Energy, which maintains it could not have foreseen a power station explosion, says insurers haven’t paid up claims yet. So it’s off to court.

  • Liam Walsh

June 2021

Coal miner Wayne Sellars received burns to 70 per cent of his body in the explosion at Anglo American’s Grosvenor mine.

‘Unacceptable risk’ as miner pays CEO $580k safety bonus

Coal mining giant Anglo American was subject to scathing findings in a government-initiated inquiry into an explosion at a Queensland mine.

  • Liam Walsh

December 2020

This image taken from surveillance video provided by Metro Nashville PD shows a recreational vehicle that was involved in a blast on Christmas day in Nashville.

'The world is never going to forget me': A quiet life, a fiery death

Authorities are still struggling to work out why 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner blew himself up in a campervan in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day.

  • Kimberlee Kruesi, Michael Balsamo and Michael Kunzelman

August 2020

Two enormous explosions rocked Beirut on Tuesday.

‘This is Lebanon, this is our destiny’

A pair of gigantic blasts that obliterated Beirut’s port and smashed the city centre is the last thing Lebanon needed.

  • Anchal Vohra
A helicopter drops water on smoldering buildings in the city's port, destroyed by Tuesday's explosion.

Beirut explosions create a dilemma for the world

How do governments help a country, which badly needs assistance, without empowering its corrupt political elite?

  • Bobby Ghosh
A man walks through debris on a residential street in Beirut.

Australia pledges $2m in aid to Beirut recovery effort

Prime Minister Hassan Diab declared three days of mourning from Thursday, as countries around the world joined Australia in rallying to Lebanon's cause.

  • Hans van Leeuwen
Beirut blast August 5, 2020.

Large blast rocks Beirut, one Australian killed

More than 70 people were killed and nearly 4000 injured as windows shattered and apartment balconies collapsed across the city.

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  • Samia Nakhoul and Yara Abi Nader

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