One Thai protester was killed and 22 wounded Thursday in a blast at a Bangkok demonstration site, police said, raising fears that political violence is resuming after a brief lull for a royal funeral.

At least one Thai anti-government protester was killed and 21 were wounded in a pre-dawn bomb blast Thursday inside a demonstration site in Bangkok, emergency services said.

The bomb went off at 3:28 am (2028 GMT) in front of a stage at the Government House compound, which protesters from the so-called People`s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) occupied in late August.

At least one Thai anti-government protester was killed and 21 were wounded in a pre-dawn bomb blast Thursday inside a demonstration site in Bangkok, emergency services said.

The bomb went off at 3:28 am (2028 GMT) in front of a stage at the Government House compound, which protesters from the so-called People`s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) occupied in late August.

At least one Thai anti-government protester was killed and 21 were wounded in a pre-dawn bomb blast Thursday inside a demonstration site in Bangkok, emergency services said.

The bomb went off at 3:28 am (2028 GMT) in front of a stage at the Government House compound, which protesters from the so-called People`s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) occupied in late August.

MANILA, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - An explosion that killed four people at a shopping mall in the Philippine capital on Friday was 'probably caused by a bomb,' national police chief Avelino Razon told AFP.

Police initially blamed the noon time blast on a gas leak at a restaurant inside the Glorietta mall in Manila's financial district Makati.

However, Razon said: 'From our assessment this is not what was initially reported as LPG (liquefied petroleum gas).

AMRITSAR, India, Oct 15, 2007 (AFP) - Indian police said on Monday that an explosion that killed six people and injured 32 in a packed cinema hall in northern India was a 'terrorist' bombing.

Hundreds of people -- mainly poor migrant workers -- were crammed into the theatre in the industrial city of Ludhiana in Punjab state to watch Sunday's late-night screening of a new Bollywood comedy.

'It was a bomb blast. It is a terror act. We are trying to find out the exact nature of explosives used,' said a senior police official on condition of anonymity.

PARIS, Oct 11, 2007 (AFP) - French police have identified a 55 year-old Palestinian man now living in Canada as the suspected perpetrator of a bomb attack at a Paris synagogue that killed four people in 1980, a newspaper reported Thursday.

The man, who was not named in the report, was traced after German intelligence officials acquired a memebership list of the now-defunct extremist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -- Special Operations (PFLP-OS), Le Figaro said.

MADRID, Oct 9, 2007 (AFP) - A car exploded Tuesday in Spain's northern Basque country, wounding a bodyguard, regional authorities said.

The blast occurred in the city of Bilbao at around 1:25pm, a spokesman for the Basque interior ministry said.

The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. Spanish media initially reported it as a carbomb, but that was not confirmed by officials.

'The car caught fire and one person left the vehicle,' a police spokesman added, but gave no further details.

KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines, Oct 5, 2007 (AFP) - A child was killed and 32 people injured Friday in two bomb blasts in the southern Philippines, the military said.

The bombings occurred within minutes of each other in Kidapawan City on Mindanao island.

The first bomb exploded under a minibus on a crowded street in the commercial district of the city.

Minutes later another bomb, planted by the roadside, exploded nearby, local brigade army commander colonel Pedro Soria told AFP.

KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines, Oct 5, 2007 (AFP) - A child was killed and 26 people injured Friday in two bomb blasts in the southern Philippines, the military said.

The bombings occurred within minutes of each other in Kidapawan City on Mindanao island.

The first bomb exploded under a crowded minibus killing an eight-year-old girl and injuring more than a dozen people, local brigade army commander colonel Pedro Soria told AFP.

He said a second bomb, planted at the side of the road near to the vehicle, exploded a few minutes later.

MADRID, Sept 30, 2007 (AFP) - Spanish police removed and dismantled an explosive device left at the headquarters of a Catalan green-left political party in Barcelona, the leader of the party said Sunday.

Local residents alerted authorities to the presence of a suspicious package at the head office of the Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV) and police reported it was a bomb after analyzing it, the party's secretary general Jordi Guillot told a news conference.

VANCOUVER, Canada, Sept 26, 2007 (AFP) - A bomb threat halted seaplane flights here Wednesday, stranding hundreds of passengers traveling to and from this Pacific Coast metropolis and surrounding island communities, police said.

Sixty float planes operated by Harbour Air, the largest regional airline in westernmost Canada, were sniffed by police dogs after someone called the airline at 7 am local time (1400 GMT) and made a bomb threat.

Airline officials said flights had since resumed, without incident.

MADRID, Sept 25, 2007 (AFP) - An overnight blast outside a police station in Spain's Basque country shattered windows but caused no injuries in what the regional government called an attack by armed Basque separatist group ETA.

'The Ertzaintza (regional police) commissariat was targeted last night in an ETA attack,' the Basque regional government said in a statement on the explosion, which occurred in the town of Zarautz.

MADRID, Sept 25, 2007 (AFP) - A blast occurred outside a police station overnight in the Basque town of Zarauz in northern Spain, shattering windows but causing no injuries Tuesday, a police spokesman told AFP.

'The device went off about 1:30 in the morning (2330 GMT), but did not cause any damage to people, while shattering several windows and leaving a crater about one metre in diameter,' the spokesman said.

ALGIERS, Sept 19, 2007 (AFP) - A security guard was killed and another injured by a homemade bomb in the Bouira in the Kabylie region, 120 kilometres (75 miles) southeast of the capital Algiers, security sources said Wednesday.

The bomb was buried in a hill near a tree used by guards as a look-out.

It was the second attack since the start of the month of Ramadan on September 13.

The first attack on September 14 targeted police accommodation in Zemmouri, 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of the capital, killing three people and injuring five.

MADRID, Sept 14, 2007 (AFP) - Local police discovered and deactivated a homemade explosive device on Friday under a policeman's car in the Basque country in northern Spain, an official said.

The small device, found at 10:00 am (0800 GMT) in Andoain, did not explode 'probably due to a defect in the detonator,' said a spokesman for the Basque interior department.

Such attempted attacks in the Basque country are often blamed on members of Basque separatist group ETA.

BUENOS AIRES, Sept 6, 2007 (AFP) - A second bomb in as many days targetting an executive of Swiss Giant Nestle exploded Thursday in a Buenos Aires suburb, breaking windows in his ex-wife's home but not injuring anyone, police said.

The explosion occurred in front of the home occupied by the former wife and two children of Nestle technology executive Christian Antonello.

On Wednesday a letter bomb addressed to Antonello, 33, seriously wounded another executive who opened the package at the firm's base near the Argentine capital.

BUENOS AIRES, Sept 5, 2007 (AFP) - An executive of the multinational food giant Nestle was seriously wounded when a letter bomb exploded in his hands at the firm's base near the Argentine capital Wednesday, police said.

Cosme Veneziale, 48, a manager in the firm's technical department at the office north of Buenos Aires, was hospitalized by the explosion, triggered when he tried to open a package that had been mailed to him containing a book.

MIAMI, Aug 31, 2007 (AFP) - Two Egyptian engineering students in Florida were charged Friday with transporting explosives and one of them with offenses linked to terrorism, state authorities said.

Authorities did not say whether the suspects had planned any attacks with the explosives nor whether they had any links to terrorist groups, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating the case.

MADRID, Aug 24, 2007 (AFP) - A car bomb exploded Friday outside a barracks of Spain's paramilitary Guardia Civil in the northern Basque town of Durango, lightly wounding two guardsmen, the country's road assistance service said.

Cadena Ser radio called the explosion the 'first attack by ETA' since the armed Basque separatist group officially called off its 15-month ceasefire on June 5, although no Spanish media had reported an ETA claim to the bomb attack.

MADRID, Aug 24, 2007 (AFP) - A car bomb exploded Friday outside a barracks of Spain's paramilitary Guardia Civil in the northern town of Durango in the Basque region, Spanish media reported citing police sources.

Two civil guardsmen received light injuries in the explosion at 0345 am (0130 GMT), according to a correspondent of the private Cadena Ser radio station in the Basque country.

ANKARA, Aug 18, 2007 (AFP) - The two men who hijacked a Turkish passenger plane Saturday and later surrendered did not carry a bomb as they claimed, the CNN-Turk and NTV news channel reported.

Police found modelling clay inside the package that the hijackers said contained explosives, the reports said.

Turkish Interior Minister Osman Gunes said earlier that police were examining the contents of the package.

MOSCOW, Aug 8, 2007 (AFP) - Russian prosecutors Wednesday charged eight members of a right-wing group with staging a bomb attack on a Moscow market last year which killed 14 people and injured 49.

The attack on the two-storey Cherkizovsky market in northeastern Moscow housed shops owned by Asians and other immigrants.

Prosectors said those charged included two leaders of the SPAS, or Saviours, described as a nationalist military organisation.

They said diaries kept by some of the accused provided solid evidence.

MANILA, Aug 3, 2007 (AFP) - A home-made bomb was found in a suburb of the Philippine capital Manila, police said Friday, close to a housing project due to be visited by the wife of US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte.

Explosive experts disarmed the device, which consisted of a cellphone as a triggering device and ammonium nitrate as the explosive.

It is thought the device malfunctioned and did not explode when the phone rang, police said.

In a statement, police said that the bomb was contained in a styrofoam food container near a government building.

MAKHACHKALA, Russia, July 27, 2007 (AFP) - A senior Muslim cleric and his brother were killed when their car was blown up overnight in the southern Russian province of Dagestan, the region's top prosecutor said on Friday.

Chief prosecutor Igor Tkachev told journalists at the scene in the regional capital Makhachkala that the 'deputy mufti of the Muslim religious leadership', Kurbanmagomed Ramazanov, and his brother Abdulla had been killed.