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“Greece bombings not linked to al Qaeda, government says”

“Greece bombings not linked to al Qaeda, government says”.

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“Greece bombings not linked to al Qaeda, government says”

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  1. “Greece bombings not linked to al Qaeda, government says”

  2. A series of parcel bombs targeting embassies in Greece and officials across Europe "are not related to international terrorism and groups like al Qaeda," according to a Greek government spokesman Wednesday. Police spokesman added that two suspects arrested in the case are "domestic terrorists without international connections.” The country suspended air shipments of all mail and packages for 48 hours after the parcel bombs were sent from the capital, the Public Order Ministry announced Wednesday. At least nine bombs or suspicious devices have been sent in recent days to various embassies in Athens. Police intercepted and destroyed most of them, though one person at a courier office was wounded when a package addressed to the Mexican Embassy exploded, and another device was thrown at the Swiss Embassy and exploded in its courtyard. Police described the bombs as "booby trap bombs. They are hidden in books and some of them are hidden in files, in dossiers."

  3. In Other News Repairs are to begin Wednesday on a 65-foot-deep (20 meters) sinkhole that opened in the eastern German town of Schmalkalden on Monday, local authorities said. The sinkhole, which measured more than 130 feet (40 meters) across, swallowed a car and forced the evacuation of 25 people in nine houses, the regional newspaper Thueringer-Allgemeine reported. Officials told the paper more than 1,000 truckloads of gravel would be needed to fill the hole. A giant panda cub -- the only one this year in the United States -- was born early Wednesday at Zoo Atlanta, the zoo said in a statement. LunLun, a 13-year-old female panda, gave birth to the cub at 5:39 a.m. ET in a specially prepared birthing den inside the zoo's giant panda building, according to the statement."LunLun appears to be providing appropriate care for her cub, which is roughly the size of a cell phone." The cub is the third for LunLun and mate Yang Yang. It will be introduced to the public in spring 2011.

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