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Smoke fills the air as debris covers the ground and vehicles after a powerful blast ripped through a military explosives manufacturing plant in Hickman County, Tennessee.

No survivors in Tennessee explosives factory blast, sheriff says

Authorities are trying to determine the cause of the explosion on Friday that was felt by people more than 100 kilometres away.

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Fire in the hole!

Here comes Dad. Time to bale.

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Demolition experts go to great lengths

But it’s time to go out with a bang.

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Explosion blasts wall out of Sydney apartment block

Two men were rushed to hospital and dozens evacuated after the sidewall of the unit block collapsed.

  • Josefine Ganko
Freedom Flotilla says one of its ships was subjected to a drone attack.

All aboard Gaza aid flotilla confirmed safe after NGO reports drone attack

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition uploaded video footage showing a fire on one of its ships but did not indicate who could have been responsible for the attack.

Explosion at port in Iran.

Claim chemical used for missiles was shipped to Iranian port before huge explosion

The large blast shattered windows within several kilometres, Iranian media said, with footage shared online showing a huge cloud forming after the explosion.

  • Jon Gambrell
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A 50-year-old woman has been arrested following the death of a man in Yarram.

Man, 19, killed by firework explosion in Melbourne’s outer north

Police have warned about the dangers of handling fireworks after a teenager died on Christmas Day.

  • Angus Delaney and Hannah Hammoud
The explosion in Beirut's port on August 4.

‘Get down! Get out!’: Surviving Beirut’s 2020 blast

Four years ago, a port explosion pulverised Beirut. An Australian writer describes the shocking aftermath.

  • Theodore Ell
People taking care of the injured after an explosion in Kerman, Iran.

Nearly 100 killed after blasts near Iranian commander’s tomb

Two explosions caused by ‘terrorist attacks’ killed wounded in an attack condemned by leaders around the world.

  • Parisa Hafezi
Smoke billows from a checkpoint at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, New York.

Fatalities after vehicle explosion at US-Canada border crossing bridge

The FBI’s field office in Buffalo said in a statement that it was investigating the explosion on the Rainbow Bridge, which connects the two countries across the Niagara River.

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