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Letter bombs explode in ABN Amro, Ricoh offices in Netherlands, no injuries
Two letter bombs exploded on Wednesday at two separate locations in the Netherlands but nobody was hurt in the incidents, which police blamed on an extortionist who had demanded payment in bitcoin.
Mexican president says he will send congress a judicial reform proposal
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Letter bombs explode in ABN Amro, Ricoh offices in Netherlands
Two letter bombs exploded in the Netherlands on Wednesday morning, one at an ABN Amro bank mail-sorting office in Amsterdam and the other 140 miles away at a mail room of Japanese electronics group Ricoh, police said.
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Organizers poised to call off Mobile World Congress: sources
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Put me on trial, defiant Salvini says in Italian migrant boat case
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Dutch police say motive for letter bombs was extortion: ANP News
Two letter bombs went off in the Netherlands on Wednesday, one in the postal-sorting office of Dutch bank ABN Amro and another in the post room of Japan’s Ricoh , police and Dutch broadcaster RTL reported.
