JUBA, South Sudan—At least 10 people in South Sudan, including three children, have been killed after mistaking unexploded ordnance for scrap metal, an official said Friday. The commissioner of Jur River county, James Bak, confirmed Thursday’s accident in Western Bahr el Ghazal and said two other children were injured. He said people in Jebel-Mille area…

PHILADELPHIA—A Pennsylvania man admitted packing explosive materials, fuses, and a lighter in a suitcase he checked for a commercial flight to Florida and fled the Lehigh Valley airport when he feared arrest, federal authorities said in a court document filed Thursday. Marc Muffley, 40, of Lansford, called his girlfriend for a ride when he heard…

A man has been arrested after an explosive was found in a checked bag at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley International Airport, the FBI said Wednesday. Mark Muffley, 40, from Lansford, Pennsylvania, was arrested on Monday and charged with attempting to place an explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft after his suitcase triggered an alarm during the routine screening….

BAMAKO, Mali—Coordinated attacks by Islamic terrorists have killed 14 Malian soldiers and wounded nearly a dozen, the army said. Multiple improvised explosive devices detonated between Dia and Diafarabe villages as well as between Koumara and Macina towns in central Mali, said Col. Souleymane Dembele, the director of public relations for the army, in a statement…

DAMASCUS—At least 18 soldiers were killed and 20 wounded on Thursday when an explosive device detonated on a military bus in the Damascus countryside, local outlet Sham FM said. It represents one of the deadliest attacks in months against Syrian government troops not on an active front line. Bus attacks in particular have been on…

ANAHEIM, Calif.—Anaheim police are asking on July 9 for the public’s help catching a suspect who shoved an explosive into the home of a woman, injuring her. Police were called at about 5:40 a.m. Tuesday to the 8000 block of East Far Canyon Way regarding the explosion, Anaheim police Sgt. Shane Carringer said. The suspect…

PLACERVILLE, Calif.—Crews were digging in and burning out fire lines amid another round of high winds that contributed to the fury to a Northern California wildfire. “We have a firefight ahead of us and the wind today is going to make it very challenging,” said Keith Wade, a spokesman with the California Department of Forestry…