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Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away.

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A Miami-Dade fire captain who blasted the handling of the Trayvon Martin case in a Facebook rant has been demoted.

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According to sources U.S. intelligence agencies recently disrupted a ruthless plot by, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) before it became a threat to the U.S. The Yemen-based al-Qaeda offshoot of was planning to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner, once again proving that al-Qaeda remains fixed on aviation as a terror target.

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The killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden one year ago by Navy Seals at his compound in Pakistan has been marked by cheers throughout the country, but counter terrorism expert Tom Maertens has warned that now with almost all of the terror groups leadership now captured or killed, future terrorist attacks will be harder to predict.

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An undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) undercover operation culminated recently with the arrest of five self-described anarchists, who allegedly plotted to blow up Ohio's Brecksville-Northfield High Level Bridge.

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A new terror threat surfaced recently in issue #9 of the al-Qaeda online English language magazine "Inspire." The flashy e-magazine called on Western sympathizers to wage war within the United States by starting wildfires.

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British police recently arrested seven people on suspicion of financing terrorism and money laundering.

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An improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in a waiting room at a Pakistani railway station in the eastern Punjab province city of Lahore recently, killing three people and injuring more than 27 others.

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In recent years pipeline safety has been a major issue, but according to a recent alert issued to the gas pipeline industry by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a new wave of cyber attacks is currently under way.

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An analysis by the National Research Council has found that the number and capability of weather satellites circling the planet "is beginning a rapid decline" with tight budgets significantly delaying or eliminating missions to replace them.

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At least 103 people were killed when a ferry carrying 300-passengers capsized on Brahmaputra River in India's Assam state.

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More than 154 people were injured in Yerevan city's Republic Square recently when hundreds of gas-filled balloons exploded after being ignited by a cigarette during a political event, staged by Armenia's ruling Republican Party.

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Washington County first responders recently had to deal with a new and dangerous phenomenon when a Prescott, WI man committed suicide by mixing household chemicals, to create a deadly gas in a car parked in Hastings, MN's Point Douglas Park.

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Patients and staff members at the Villa Marie Claire hospice in Saddle River, NJ were evacuated recently after elevated readings of carbon monoxide (CO) were detected in the building's basement.

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Point Pleasant Fire Department crews were called to the ICL-IP America plant in Gallipolis Ferry, WV recently after a pump failure resulted in the accidental release of phosphorus trichloride liquid and hydrochloric acid fumes.

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A portion of Pleasanton, CA's Stanley Boulevard was closed recently after a crane dropped a Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) transformer, spilling the Polychlorinated biphenyls from inside the transformer onto the intersection roadway.

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MONTERREY, MEXICO— Authorities struggled Monday to identify the 49 people found mutilated and scattered in a pool of blood in a region near the U.S .border where Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed while warring over smuggling routes.

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It is from Yemen, not tribal Pakistan, that the group is most likely to strike America next.

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The bombings that tore through Damascus on Thursday morning were the sixth terrorist attack to have struck the city since December.

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(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has used an unrivalled network of tribal and family connections to infiltrate Islamist militant strongholds in Yemen, enabling it to help thwart a bomb plot against the United States, say Gulf officials and former diplomats.

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