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Journalists straddling pool of blood whilst interviewing police officers outside academy. Don’t call us vultures for nothing. ‪#yemen‬‬

Iona Craig, a foreign journalist in Yemen, tweets following a suicide bombing outside a police academy in Sanaa that killed nine.

Since former president Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down, suicide attacks have been a recurring phenomena in Sanaa and Aden. The last attack in Sanaa happened on May 22, a day before the anniversary of Yemen’s unification, killing nearly 100 soldiers.

Read reactions from Yemeni bloggers to the latest tragedy here. 

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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal - #WeRememberJuly11
Ugandans take to Twitter and Facebook to remember the 2010 victims of bomb blasts at the Kyaddondo Rugby Club and Ethiopian Village bar in Kampala, Uganda. The attacks took place when soccer fans were watching the World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands in South Africa.

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On Friday April 27, at least 27 people were injured in the four midday explosions in public spaces in the center of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. The blasts were qualified as terror attacks by the Ukrainian authorities, who said six possible scenarios were being investigated, but provided few details.

Online, there has been a great deal of speculation about the bombings. The timing of the tragedy is key to most of the popular theories, as Ukraine is going through a very eventful period right now.

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Research by Dr. Taylor Owen revealed that the total amount of bombs dropped by the United States in Cambodia between 1965-1973 was five times greater than previously known.
Crisis Mapping of US Bombardment in Cambodia

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This apparent terror act, the first in 2011, has showed an important new feature of the Russian media space. If a year ago Russians were just experimenting with new media tools (and, especially Twitter) during the emergencies, in 2011 they faced this disaster better prepared. The Twitter-news were so instant that even the president found out about the event from Twitter. At the same time, Twitter-mobilization against the escalated taxi rates led to self-help organization and a decision to remove the train tariff for passengers.
  Alexey Sidorenko, “Russia: First Twitter Reports of Domodedovo Suicide Bombing” on Global Voices