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A SMALL EXPLOSIVE device went off outside a French church in central Rome, causing only material damage in an incident France’s embassy to the Vatican said could be linked to President Francois Hollande’s visit today.
“A handmade bomb went off at 2:30am, damaging three parked cars and the windows of a nearby building,” a police spokesman told AFP.
“There has been no claim of responsibility,” he said.
The blast happened in Vicolo della Campana and an official at the secretariat of France’s embassy to the Holy See said the small street only had the church of Saint-Yves des Breton and a restaurant on it.
“One of the theories is that this act was linked to the visit by the president,” the official said.
Police are investigating on the site of the blast.
Pope Francis was due to receive Hollande later today for the first meeting between the two, amid deep divisions in France over hot-button issues including abortion and gay marriage.
- © AFP 2014.
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That’s me hair transplant on weds fluck ed now ah well!.
It’s the Russians, had to be.
Waiting for the “this disproves global warming/ climate change” comments.
@Tomás Barrett: Yes, scientists believe the increasingly meandering nature of the northern polar jetstream is linked to climate change, it’s allowing cold polar vortex to move south and warmer air to move north more frequently, a similar event was responsible for record-breaking cold in Texas in Feb 2021:
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/understanding-arctic-polar-vortex
As a result, northern Scandinavia was warmer than Turkey around 5pm today:
@David Jordan: But man made climate change is what’s affecting the change in jet stream.
sub zero temperatures and gale force winds last hit Athens in feb 2021. so last winter then
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it’s Turkish delight on a moonlit night
@Ted Logan: why did Constantinople get the works,
that’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
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