Four years ago, taxi drivers in Cape Town allegedly set new city buses on fire, fearing the expanded service would hurt their business.
During the days of fighting that followed, the Georgian city of Gori came under heavy fire, with reports of Russian jets shelling parts of the city, buildings on fire and numerous casualties.
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Rebels said a rocket attack in Misrata by pro-Gaddafi forces killed 23 people on Thursday, and there were new reports of rocket fire into the city on Friday morning.
Federal and local investigators -- including bomb technicians -- searched an apartment in nearby Revere, the city's fire department posted on Facebook early Tuesday.
Nine people were killed after gunmen on board the City of Poros opened fire as the liner was approaching Athens.
In March 2012, gunmen hijacked trucks and set them on fire, temporarily disrupting the city.
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British units opening fire with artillery on the southern city of Basra after what UK officials said were attacks by Iraqi forces.
Iraqi insurgents Wednesday opened fire on Marines in the volatile city of Fallujah, resulting in heavy fighting that left 36 insurgents dead, and at least three Marines wounded, according to the U.S. military.
This veneration of violence, first demonstrated to the world in the form of suicide bombings against Israeli civilians on city buses, then followed by indiscriminate rocket fire at Israeli population centers, has come full circle.
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Abbas al-Rubaie, an official with the cleric's office in Baghdad's Sadr City, said gunmen in a parked car opened fire Sunday on four militia members on a routine patrol.
In Girona, a city close to the border with France, a mosque was set on fire.
The inquiry, which is being held at the Guildhall in Londonderry, is investigating events when British paratroopers opened fire on a banned civil rights procession in the city's Bogside area in 1972, killing 14 people.
She called for an end to the protest and said the damage must be countered by continuing to build on events such as the UK City of Culture, the World Fire Games and the G8 summit.
As the bus passes Belfast City Cemetery, where the loyalist terrorist Michael Stone once opened fire on a republican funeral, our driver asks the group to look for any kind of peace line dividing the graves.
Fighters entered the city, in the mineral-rich Katanga province, and opened fire on Congolese army and police killing four, officials said.
Suspected militants also opened fire on the vehicle of the top American diplomat in the city the same year, but she survived the attack.
Hadiya Pendleton was attacked by a gunman who opened fire on her and friends as they sheltered from rain in a city park.
About 1, 000 protesters set fire to cars and damaged government buildings on Sunday night near the city in China's manufacturing heartland, reports said.
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On February 7, Dorner allegedly opened fire on two LAPD police officers, wounding one, in the suburban city of Corona.
Days later, early Thursday morning, Dorner allegedly opened fire on two LAPD police officers, wounding one, in the suburban city of Corona.
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For a long time, City agencies had no way to hone in on the properties that posed the greatest risk of fire where residents could be hurt or killed.
On Thursday, a fire destroyed election materials at a depot in the eastern city of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, where electoral commission offices were ransacked earlier in the week.
Before the game, Pearce had hit out at the "farcical" pressure on Premiership managers following a week in which he had come under fire for City's 4-0 defeat at Wigan.
Early on Monday, police and suspected hitmen exchanged fire near Temixco, close to the city of Cuernavaca.
Sir Oliver Popplewell - who chaired the inquiry into the 1985 Bradford City stadium fire which claimed the lives of 56 fans - said Hillsborough relatives should "move on" from the tragedy.
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Earlier in the month a blue, half-sized gorilla named Werbert was taken from St Werburgh's City Farm and a sculpture in Clifton, created by television personality Timmy Mallett, was set on fire.
The driver opened fire on the policeman, injuring him, before fleeing south and crashing in the city of Decatur.
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The city's Oxfam store, and other neighbouring shops in New Bridge Street, were damaged in a fire on 16 December.
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