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That set off a blast of protest on Capitol Hill, directed at the F.C.C. and in particular at the commission's chairman, William E. Kennard, who yesterday acknowledged the need for compromise.
Arnolda Shiundu, a spokesman for the Kenya Red Cross (KRC), told the Guardian that the attackers set off a blast at the gate of the university hostels before storming the compound.
The mere trailer for this show set off a blast of criticism when it first appeared a few weeks ago, with some Internet chatter suggesting that the stars are not representative of the city's young people as a whole.
He told a paramedic that the odd powder in what was left of his underwear was something he had intended to inject with the contents of a syringe, apparently to set off a blast, the prosecutor said.
Soon after the show closed in New York, the figurative painter Kenneth Hayes Miller also found the show explosive, but in a positive way: "It set off a blast of dynamite in a cramped space — it blew everything wide open.
He said a Qaeda leader identified by the American authorities as a key planner of the Sept. 11 attacks was phoned by a suicide bomber three hours before the bomber set off a blast outside a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, in April that killed 21 people.
In Tikrit, a suicide car bomber drove his vehicle into a police checkpoint, setting off a blast that killed six policemen and two civilians, and wounded 24 people.
Thursday an Afghan soldier accidentally discharged a grenade launcher, setting off a blast not far from the mosque whose forecourt had been converted into the only polling station in this part of southern Afghanistan.
Most victims appeared to be young people who had been trapped inside the Sari and Paddy's discos near midnight on Saturday when a car bomb appeared to ignite gas cylinders, setting off a blast that shattered windows for hundreds of yards.
It crashed into the barricade, hitting one of the unexploded car bombs and setting off a blast which devastated several Peshmerga vehicles.
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test on Friday, setting off a blast that was more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile.
