After Naming Bombing Suspect, Focus Turns to Motive December 29, 2020 By Kimberlee Kruesi, Michael Balsamo and Eric Tucker NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ With federal officials having identified the man believed to be behind Nashville’s Christmas Day bombing, authorities...
What Happens When Tycoons Abandon Their Giant Cargo Ships December 18, 2020 By K Oanh Ha and Bruce Stanley From the deck of their tanker, Captain Samig Nabiyev and his crew could see the smoke and fire rising over...
‘External Source’ Causes Oil Tanker Blast Off Saudi Arabia December 15, 2020 By Jon Gambrell DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker off Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jiddah suffered an explosion early...
Explosives-Laden Boat Hits Fuel Ship at Saudi Port, Ministry Says December 14, 2020 SINGAPORE, Dec 14 — Saudi Arabia said on Monday that a fuel transport ship anchored at a terminal was hit...
Beirut Silos At Heart Of Debate About Remembering Port Blast December 11, 2020 By Sarah El Deeb BEIRUT (AP) — Ghassan Hasrouty spent most of his life working at the silos in Beirut’s port, unloading grain shipments...
West Virginia Chemical Plant Blast Spurs Stay-Inside Order December 10, 2020 BELLE, W.Va. (AP) — An explosion that injured four people at a West Virginia chemical plant and shook surrounding homes...
Storage Tank Explosion at Texas Petroleum Facility Injures Seven December 7, 2020 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Seven contractors were injured, four critically, when a storage tank at a petroleum facility in Texas...
Blast Rocks South African Oil Refinery, 7 Injured December 4, 2020 By Rogan Ward and Wendell Roelf DURBAN — An explosion rocked South Africa’s second-largest crude oil refinery in Durban on Friday injuring seven people, local emergency...
Community Helps Virginia Businesses Destroyed in Explosion November 16, 2020 By Kathleen Shaw HARRISONBURG, Va. — The strip mall on Miller Circle erupted into flames last month after an explosion that shook Harrisonburg...
Mechanical Problems Likely Cause of Industrial Plant Fire October 13, 2020 TACOMA, Wash. — Mechanical problems at a Tacoma industrial plant are the likely cause for a fire that triggered explosions...