Investigators found a lighter, fragments of firecrackers and three unexploded firecrackers at the site of explosion, the police statement said.
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Diwali is celebrated with firecrackers and has posed a persistent pollution problem -- last year, the Indian Supreme Court banned the sale of most firecrackers, but to no avail.
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When the attack started, I thought someone was throwing firecrackers.
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Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now is out now from Thames & Hudson.
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The ban on firecrackers' sale has been enforced from today.
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In Kashmir itself, revellers lit the night sky with firecrackers.
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"The louder, the luckier," Chen told Refinery29 of the firecrackers.
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Climbing vines exploded gold and crimson like strings of firecrackers.
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Antifa setting off firecrackers and throwing water bottles at police.
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At first he believed someone had ignited firecrackers on campus.
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The day was full of festivity, firecrackers, yelling, and laughter.
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Here, a worker cleans up the remains of many firecrackers.
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Some of the crowd hurled rocks and firecrackers at them.
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Over the weekend, they threw parties, danced and lit firecrackers.
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Meanwhile, happy Independence Day and watch out for falling firecrackers.
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We thought they were firecrackers because it sounded like them.
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When someone asked on the radio if the sounds booming through the hallways were firecrackers, "I heard Aaron say, 'No, that is not firecrackers," said May, who was also listening to the security radio.
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Antifa members began lobbing eggs, half-empty water bottles, and firecrackers.
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Firecrackers: A graham cracker with peanut butter, chocolate, and weeeeeeeed. 63.
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"When [the musical number] firecrackers ended he stood up," said Bleu.
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They hear gun shots, but upon closer inspection it's just firecrackers.
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So soon after Independence Day, Ms. Kirven thought they were firecrackers.
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I tilted my head; it sounded like firecrackers, except not really.
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Usually the parents say firecrackers so they don't startle the kids.
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Someone set off a string of firecrackers, which sounded like gunfire.
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The whole concept of the firecrackers is to create a nuisance.
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Here are some stats from the commission to keep in mind: Firecrackers were involved in most of injuries About 1,000 injuries were from firecrackers, 500 from sparklers 193 from Roman candles and 200 from bottle rockets.
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Prayers, candles, flags, and firecrackers: this long March 24 was finally over.
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As we are those other staples of the Fourth: fireworks and firecrackers.
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A Crestview man who threw lit firecrackers under a sleeping 9 yr.
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Like many attendees, they thought the first round of gunshots were firecrackers.
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Investigators found remnants of firecrackers in Mr. Zhou's rented room in Kunshan.
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They have thrown firecrackers and balls of flaming tar at the animals.
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We hear chants and firecrackers, and the thunderstorm that wrecked the field.
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India: Ahead of Diwali celebrations, the authorities are cracking down on firecrackers.
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At midnight, families around the country usually set off firecrackers and fireworks.
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Diwali, traditionally ushered in with the burning of firecrackers, falls on Oct.
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Police used tear gas after some protesters threw smoke bombs and firecrackers.
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He developed extreme sensitivity to certain sounds, like firecrackers and balloons popping.
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Two minutes later, Peterson received a call reporting firecrackers from a school monitor.
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These were then packed with firecrackers that exploded in a crowded nighttime ceremony.
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Confetti might as well be falling from the ceiling while firecrackers go off.
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I look out the window to see fireworks and firecrackers being set off.
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He also said some students believed they'd heard firecrackers by the football field.
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Another time, he dove under a play set when someone started lighting firecrackers.
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A lighter, firecracker fragments and three unexploded firecrackers were found at the scene.
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Life in distressed communities can mean learning to distinguish between firecrackers and gunshots.
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Firecrackers were set off in the streets and traditional Indian snacks were distributed.
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Maybe someone should suggest that Boston Dynamics' technicians set off a few firecrackers first?
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Some nearby residents initially thought the gunfire from the motel might have been firecrackers.
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Many of the documentary endeavors presented in Firecrackers require intimate knowledge and profound research.
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During such raucous demonstrations, firecrackers and paint bombs are regularly hurled at his office.
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They can be started by a lightning strike or a careless campfire—even firecrackers.
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Suddenly, we heard the pop of firecrackers igniting over the dry fields behind us.
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The villagers finally banded together and scared the beast away with firecrackers and drums.
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"I thought they were firecrackers, but now I'm realizing they were gunshots," he said.
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His voice is as piercing as ever, with vowels fired off like tiny firecrackers.
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We had just walked backstage when I heard what I assumed was firecrackers going off.
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Protesters shattered windows at the same building and threw firecrackers and rocks, according to CNN.
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Young men threw firecrackers; cars hooted their horns as they moved slowly through the revelry.
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An Indian worker prepares firecrackers at a workshop on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on Sept.
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Police fired teargas at a group of protesters hurling petrol bombs and firecrackers at them.
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Arab Jerusalemites retaliated by throwing stones and firecrackers at Jews, provoking clashes with Israeli police.
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Mr. Bleu must perform the dance live, with the firecrackers already built into the floor.
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The solutions for seasonal smoke are obvious: Firecrackers should be banned — and those bans enforced.
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The protesters were not cooperative and brutally attacked officers with rocks, Molotov cocktails and firecrackers.
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The nighttime celebration will usher in the Year of the Rooster with floats and firecrackers.
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These animated firecrackers and lion dance figurines will set your screen — and your friend's — ablaze.
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Some protesters hurled flares, firecrackers and Molotov cocktails at police officers outside the Parliament building.
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"The defendant would also light firecrackers and throw them at or near her," the affidavit alleges.
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Luckey was an expert in lighting virtual firecrackers and fireworks and tossing them my way too.
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"And I take my hands in my pockets and I throw down and the [firecrackers] explode."
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According to the preliminary investigation, Zhou filled a beer bottle with gunpowder from fireworks and firecrackers.
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We live in Los Angeles, where firecrackers are illegal but firmly entrenched in the city's culture.
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They've rejected applications from vendors who only sell traditional firecrackers with gunpowder and certain chemicals inside.
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"And I take my hands in my pockets and I throw down and the [firecrackers] explode."
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He's a grab bag of trouble, a string of firecrackers with some M-80s in it.
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Early Friday, activists shot firecrackers at a police helicopter and only narrowly missed it, police said.
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The government tried to enforce a Supreme Court ban on the firecrackers, but people ignored it.
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His empirical gifts were bent toward petty arson, cruel pranks, experiments with firecrackers and stray dogs.
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When that happens, the residents of San Antonio Secortez, the Caal family's community, set off firecrackers.
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"They celebrated with firecrackers, distributing sweets and raising slogans of 'Long live Pakistan,' " Officer Yadav said.
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As he and his classmates went into lockdown, many thought the noise might have been firecrackers.
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Some shouted "Long live police", while others hoisted police officials onto their shoulders and burst firecrackers.
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The tradition is over 20163 years old and the dragon is accompanied by loud drumming and firecrackers.
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The Russians have dropped a couple firecrackers onto ISIS, but they haven't done anything significant against ISIS.
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New Delhi's severe pollution was initially blamed on the widespread bursting of firecrackers during the festival Diwali.
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From Monday until March 31, sharp-tongued Mercury jackknifes through fierce Aries, turning us all into firecrackers.
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A two-judge bench said firecrackers would be permitted during Diwali, Christmas and New Year, with conditions.
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Judges have tried to restrict crop-burning and firecrackers, but local governments have not enforced their rulings.
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Aldean was several songs into his set when a short burst of gunfire was confused for firecrackers.
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Garlanded with flowers and banana leaves, it rolled into Jaffna to an explosion of cheers and firecrackers.
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In an ironic echo of the attacks themselves, the ralliers pelted police with beer bottles and firecrackers.
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The country's Supreme Court also banned the sale of firecrackers during Diwali -- the Indian festival of lights.
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After Pakistan won, the police encountered people shouting pro-Pakistan slogans and setting off firecrackers in celebration.
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Officers began to descend on the neighborhood and the exchange of gunfire pummeled the air like firecrackers.
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Protesters set fires to tires and pelted police with rocks, gasoline bombs and firecrackers near blocked streets.
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At that point I thought to myself that this wasn't a smoke bomb and it wasn't firecrackers.
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" Ritwick Dutta, an environmental lawyer, agreed: "I don't know if there is anything known as green firecrackers.
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People end the celebration with firing firecrackers, which is the highlight of the day for many children.
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The Interior Ministry said police used tear gas to stop the demonstrators, who were throwing stones and firecrackers.
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On top of the huge turnout, the members also set off firecrackers as part of the dramatic celebrations.
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What about those ornery fraternity members who, weeks before, threw cupcakes containing lighted firecrackers inside the Res Club?
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Then one day, someone duct-taped firecrackers to several cars in our parking lot while we all prayed.
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Garin said an outright ban on all firecrackers is necessary to prevent injuries and deaths in future years.
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New Delhi accounts for nearly half of India's demand for firecrackers although Diwali is celebrated across the country.
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Stutts suggests throwing firecrackers off into the distance to confuse others who might try to track you down.
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Smoke from firecrackers set off to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, also adds to smog levels.
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In a busy street in Old Delhi, one vendor of firecrackers doused himself with kerosene and threatened suicide.
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He said that just like in Vegas, when he heard the first shots he thought they were firecrackers.
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This town in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu built its reputation on fireworks, firecrackers and matches.
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Micro-Crackers Strings of tiny firecrackers with pops so high-pitched they can be heard only by dogs.
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By the end of the night ... fireworks, firecrackers, and regular ol' fires burned as the Portuguese fans turnt up.
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But at last month's French Cup final, some fans still smuggled in and set off firecrackers and smoke bombs.
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Firecrackers, dangerous but very popular in the Philippines, are outlawed, a policy Duterte promises to enforce nationwide next year.
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But on Sunday evening, many families still celebrated the festival by climbing to their rooftops and setting off firecrackers.
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But pollution levels were better than at last year's Diwali when crop burning in nearby states and firecrackers combined.
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When we're close to Diwali, the government says, 'Let's ban firecrackers or let's implement the odd-even driving restrictions.
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Diwali, traditionally ushered in with the setting off of firecrackers mainly by India's majority Hindu community, falls on Oct.
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Vehicle emissions and dust from construction sites were the factors blamed for that spike, besides firecrackers and farm burnings.
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It's the Lunar New Year and so last night they came, undeterred by the firecrackers that sounded like war.
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"Please advise, we have possible, uh, could be firecrackers," he said, according to a recording of the radio traffic.
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" 2013: Year of the Snake "On the Lunar New Year, we set off firecrackers to ward off evil spirits.
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A ban by India's Supreme Court on firecrackers during the Hindu festival of Diwali last month brought temporary relief.
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Using matches, candles, sparklers, and firecrackers, YouTube's Kaplamino created this chain reaction that's triggered by nothing but dominoes toppling over.
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While regulations exist on the books, many continue making powerful firecrackers and bottle rockets and selling them to the public.
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Last year, the Indian Supreme Court banned the sale of most firecrackers, although people continued to buy and use them.
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Counter-protesters stood against the police barricade, chanting "Nazi scum" while bottles, firecrackers, and other projectiles flew from both sides.
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Firecrackers and bottles were also thrown at riot police who attempted to disperse the crowd as police helicopters circled overhead.
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The video showed images of masked protesters hurling rocks, firecrackers, and Molotov cocktails at officers accompanied by a dramatic soundtrack.
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They wept and clapped and set off firecrackers as the vehicle started its journey from the county seat of Lankao.
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The protesters moved towards riot police chanting anti-fascist slogans, waving Soviet flags and anti-government banners and throwing firecrackers.
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Thousands gathered in fan zones, lighting firecrackers, sounding car horns, shouting loudly and waving the red and black national flag.
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And there are related worries, such as how some fans have managed to take firecrackers or smoke bombs into stadiums.
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"All temporary licenses to sell firecrackers stand canceled," said Haripriya Padmanabhan, a lawyer representing the group that sought the ban.
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They could hear firecrackers going off outside, the expensive kind that sizzle and pop and burn for half an hour.
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This month, India's health minister, Harsh Vardhan, unveiled a line of "green" firecrackers with some of the country's top scientists.
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"All temporary licenses to sell firecrackers stand cancelled," said Haripriya Padmanabhan, a lawyer representing the group that sought the ban.
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Residents celebrate by lighting lamps and bursting firecrackers, which have caused a sharp spike in pollution levels in previous years.
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Firecrackers and fireworks are lit to scare away evil spirits from the previous year, making way for the new year.
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"In the worst scenario, we shoot down a leader of the menacing elephants or scare them off using firecrackers," she said.
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Diwali is celebrated only once a year and the impact of firecrackers lasts only for a couple of days, he said.
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Witnesses described the atmosphere around the city's central train station as aggressive and threatening, with firecrackers being thrown into the crowd.
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Just last fall, the organization published its first book, Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now, a compilation of works by 33 contemporary artists.
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I could hear what I thought was firecrackers and then I heard somebody say, 'My partner's down,' or something like that.
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Shortly before the measures were approved just before midnight, some protesters hurled petrol bombs and firecrackers at police guarding the legislature.
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A woman and her husband (their names were also redacted) were driving past the dealership when they thought they heard firecrackers.
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A local resident said that a wedding party along the river on Sunday had been told not to set off firecrackers.
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Afterwards the winter is figuratively cast out in the form of a snowman effigy—known as the Böögg—filled with firecrackers.
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A failed 2010 bombing attempt in New York City's Times Square, for instance, involved a pressure cooker stuffed with 120 firecrackers.
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The situation wasn't helped by coinciding with Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, which people usually set off firecrackers to celebrate.
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In addition to crop burning, the smog worsens as people set off firecrackers to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
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When the antifa got there, some with makeshift weapons and M-80 firecrackers, fighting broke out (each side blames the other).
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This year, officials in Delhi banned firecrackers ahead of Diwali, arresting 210 people and confiscating 3.7 metric tons of illicit incendiaries.
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As winter approaches, crop burning, firecrackers and a fall in temperatures fuel the annual deterioration in Delhi's already-poor air quality.
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The man killed belonged to a group that tries to distract Israeli soldiers with burning tires and firecrackers, medical officials said.
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One student told the professor he initially thought the gunshots were part of the presentation or someone had set off large firecrackers.
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"He was strapped with some homemade incendiary devices, firecrackers and doused himself with some kind of flammable liquid," Georgia State Patrol Capt.
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Here's the debris in his left eye:Image: Parul C. Gupta, NEJM (2017)The NEJM recommends wearing "the appropriate eyewear" when using firecrackers.
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In the capital city New Delhi, residents are also preparing -- by scrambling to buy air purifiers and protesting the use of firecrackers.
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Downtown areas of Jakarta became a battlefield overnight, with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets and protesters throwing rocks and firecrackers.
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Melanson said she had just dragged her daughters to the front of a stage when she heard what she thought were firecrackers.
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Video and photos of Nova Nation's partying quickly spread on social media, with clips showing crowds setting off firecrackers and lighting bonfires.
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The accident took place during the Chinese New Year period, when firecrackers are commonly set off as part of the annual celebrations.
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For one thing, the court's edict that only "green", less-polluting firecrackers can be let off between the hours of 8 p.m.
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Television footage on Tuesday showed police officers in riot gear firing tear gas at demonstrators who hurled firecrackers back at the officers.
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A pride march in the eastern city of Bialystok on July 20th was attacked by thugs who threw stones, firecrackers and bottles.
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They broke through police barricades and hurled smoke bombs, firecrackers, cobblestones, bottles, acid-filled eggs, rotting food and feces at the marchers.
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Ryan Asgharpour, 8, launched balls of fire into the air with his father, Alborz, while other children threw firecrackers at each other.
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Since the government discourages people from celebrating the holiday, there are no campaigns on how to safely handle firecrackers or Roman candles.
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All are dropped into the pan at once, going off like a chain of firecrackers, before settling down to a steady hiss.
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In its affidavit to the Supreme Court, the environment ministry has rather asked for the introduction of firecrackers that emit less harmful chemicals.
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Sharp enough to distinguish between real gunshots and firecrackers or other loud noises, the sensors also transmit the location of gunfire they detect.
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" Sharon Keith, manager of the 7-Eleven, told the Times that she "saw multiple people down, bleeding" and heard what "sounded like firecrackers.
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"[But] all of a sudden it got quite violent, and I thought, That's not firecrackers — and they just started falling," Keats told Newshub.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police forces on Thursday shot and killed a Palestinian in east Jerusalem who had thrown firecrackers at them, police said.
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"There was a crowd surge after firecrackers were detonated," Jean-Gabriel Delacroix from the city prefecture said, saying that 27 people were injured.
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Only "safe and green firecrackers" would be allowed, for a maximum two hours on Diwali, and only in designated areas such as parks.
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"Goodbye Philippines" kills one Just before the New Year, a couple of new firecrackers showed up on the market, which the police seized.
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The large walled compound containing the monuments is strewn with the detritus of firecrackers, set off to protect the dead from evil spirits.
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A Florida man has been arrested after police say he admitted to throwing lit firecrackers under a sleeping child's bed over the weekend.
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Police said 20 people were injured in clashes when protesters threw rocks and firecrackers at riot police, who responded by firing water cannon.
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For 15 seconds, through the pulsing of the salsa music, they thought it might have been firecrackers, Ms. Summers said in an interview.
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Some environment activists said the court order was poorly enforced and firecrackers were still available to celebrate one of north India's biggest festivals.
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And the strategies deployed by some farmers, such as using guns or firecrackers to scare the creatures off, often just create more conflict.
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Police fired gas and firecrackers to disperse them, as some students threw stones and scuffled with officers while others clapped and chanted slogans.
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Earlier this year, the Supreme Court banned the sale of firecrackers in Delhi ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali on October 19.
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The week my kids and I heard those firecrackers behind our house, the police cited several teenagers for setting off rockets and such.
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Many in the Philippines have wondered whether Mr. Duterte would also expand a Davao ban on powerful firecrackers during New Year's Eve revelry.
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As decadent as Abdullah's firecrackers look, unless you live in a place where marijuana has been legalized, please don't try this at home.
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New Delhi's smog typically worsens at this time of year as residents set off firecrackers to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
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And upon their arrival in the city, on Wednesday, they were met with a hero's welcome, including a huge outdoor rally and firecrackers.
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Clashes began when rioters threw stones and firecrackers at police dispatched near the parliament; the authorities responded with water cannons and tear gas.
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Perhaps the most spectacular shows will be in Missouri, where residents spend more to import firecrackers than those in any other U.S. state.
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De Rossi had to wait to take his penalty when two firecrackers were thrown onto the pitch by Albania fans behind the goal.
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The hand-held devices have been modified to carry all manner of harmful things, like knives and firecrackers, becoming more weapon than toy.
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To this day, the firecrackers on New Year's Eve remind him of the bombs falling on Hamburg when he was 5 years old.
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Lunar New Year in New York means lions on Saturday, firecrackers on Monday and much more throughout the month, including parades, festivals and exhibitions.
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Because every kid dreams about blowing stuff up with firecrackers, and watching the explosion over and over using the instant replay of their imagination.
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Hundreds rallied on both Tuesday and Wednesday night, throwing stones and firecrackers at police as smoke billowed from cars that had been set alight.
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High-powered, dynamite-like firecrackers are officially banned in the Philippines, but they are still sold illegally and are easily accessible to ordinary citizens.
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Fans threw firecrackers and flares inside and outside the stadium and banned objects were brought into the grounds despite close searching, security officials said.
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UMass Police reported that fights broke out shortly after the game ended, and the crowd threw objects and set off smoke bombs and firecrackers.
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During the annual portrayals, the killers drag the sharecroppers from a car, line them up and open fire, using firecrackers and ketchup for effect.
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"Black-bloc" anarchists and anti-fascist protesters hurled firecrackers at police and threw rocks through storefront windows, at one point even torching a limousine.
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Illegal burning of crops by farmers and firecrackers set off to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in October have exacerbated the problem.
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They also found firecrackers and other explosive materials and a bag of metal balls that could have been used as shrapnel in a bomb.
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In Paris, clashes broke out as small groups of masked individuals mingled with the otherwise peaceful procession, throwing stones and firecrackers at the police.
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Additionally, someone threw what police believe were firecrackers, Spicuzza said, prompting a crowd of people to attempt to flee the venue at the same time.
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On the other side of the spectrum, Firecrackers also features a number of fascinating projects related to the deeply personal life of the artist herself.
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Where were the firecrackers and the cars filled with party workers waving Greek flags that would normally race around Syntagma Square blaring out patriotic songs?
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The couple told FitzGerald they had seen a group of kids with firecrackers and that they were heading down to "rat them out," she recalled.
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Some protesters, including a group with masked faces, hurled petrol bombs, firecrackers and paint at the entrance of the government building and later at parliament.
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The Fallas festival, held every March, is best known for its giant satirical puppets and firecrackers, and it is one of Spain's biggest street parties.
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When the child returns, they pretend the cashier didn't give them a receipt and pocket the change for themselves, spending it on Chomps or firecrackers.
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Dozens, many of them masked, threw rocks, firecrackers and road signs at police who doused them with high-pressure water jets and fired gas rounds.
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Over the silence of an evening without traffic, the clanging of metal, the tooting of horns and the popping of firecrackers reverberated across the city.
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On May 1, 2010, police thwarted an attempted car bomb in Times Square, defusing a crude device made out of firecrackers and propane gas tanks.
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Hundreds of fans and supporters celebrated the bail decision by cheering and setting off firecrackers outside the court Saturday in the Rajasthan city of Jodhpur.
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The two factions then faced off at a distance, with protesters throwing large firecrackers and bottles while holding a banner reading: "Turin is anti-fascist".
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The Colonel sets off firecrackers which leave The Eagle running around campus trying to catch him as Alaska jumps behind the wheel of her car.
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In one burst of activity last year, 2000 security personnel armed with firecrackers were deployed to scare off wild animals, the airport's most common visitors.
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Scuffles broke out after anti-fascists pelted marchers from the right-wing Patriot Prayer group with eggs, water bottles and firecrackers, the Oregonian newspaper reported.
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In the southern city of Nice, more than two dozen fans were hurt when the detonation of firecrackers triggered a brief stampede near the seafront.
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Anti-fascists and anarchists played cat and mouse with D.C Metropolitan police throughout the day, smashed windows, hurled firecrackers, and set a limo on fire.
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Last year, the Supreme Court temporarily banned the sale of firecrackers in and around the capital city, an area with a population of about 20 million.
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"When the first round of shots was fired, everyone thought it was one of those firecrackers going off," Amornrat, clad in white robes, recalled on Sunday.
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Diwali is only a small part of the problem -- aside from periods of intense use like the festival, the firecrackers don't have much of an impact.
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"A security guy said it was just 'firecrackers' so I went back to work," Becker writes in response to questions from TIME and facilitated by Getty.
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One set of NEJM cases compiled by doctor George Aiken in Michigan in 1961 reports plenty of instances of children losing limbs from explosions, including firecrackers.
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Television footage showed smoke billowing from behind dozens of protesters in streets of the Tanah Abang district, with some throwing firecrackers and tearing down public fences.
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Adding to the fears, Indians will celebrate the festival of Diwali on Wednesday, when many members of the majority Hindu community will set off celebratory firecrackers.
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Deadly smog engulfed much of northern India, thanks in part to farmers burning stubble and to revellers letting off firecrackers to celebrate Diwali, a Hindu holiday.
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There was no description of the device in court papers, but Di Carlo said it was five large firecrackers bundled together and having a single fuse.
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In the car park of Brasilia's soccer stadium, some of Rousseff's supporters waved red flags and set off firecrackers, as they prepared to march on Congress.
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Villagers in the area erupted in joy when they heard about her death, shooting off firecrackers, passing out sweets and pumping their fists in the air.
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The latest timeline does corroborate Peterson's account about the reports of "firecrackers" but it contradicts his assertion that he thought the shots were being fired outside.
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Last year, the court banned traditional firecrackers in a bid to crack down on smog, resulting in a drop in the sale of fireworks across Delhi.
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Shopkeepers in the trade say setting off firecrackers on Diwali is part of an ancient Hindu tradition and the Supreme Court must respect the sentiments of Hindus.
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On Sunday, 41 people were injured in a stampede in the Riviera town of Juan-les-Pins when holiday makers mistook the sound of firecrackers for gunfire.
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But only minutes later, another group of young men arrived, and after failing to overturn the van they detonated firecrackers inside it, causing a series of explosions.
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In winter it is higher and in the weeks after Diwali, an autumn festival of lights (and firecrackers), it can rise above 50 times the WHO limit.
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The unrelated "stampede" of the exiting crowd resulted from what police believe were the sound of firecrackers, prompting the cry of "gun" or "shots fired," said Alioto.
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And as usual, instead of enjoying them responsibly, the internet is hard at work trying to find ways to make spinners as dangerous as playing with firecrackers.
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Firecrackers cause 20% of those injuries, and children between the ages of 5 and 9 and adults 25 to 44 are at the most risk of injury.
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Inside the van, police found illegal firecrackers which were disguised as a fake bomb, a fake pistol and the gun that the perpetrator used to kill himself.
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Last month, the country's Supreme Court banned the sale of most firecrackers amid concerns that their use during the annual celebrations would again send pollution levels soaring.
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The community has pursued the case against Khan for almost two decades and cheered the decision by setting off firecrackers near the courthouse and handing out sweets.
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The sale's top lot, a rare pair of pink-ground famille-rose "Boys and Firecrackers" vases, Shendetang hallmarks, Qing Dynasty, Daoguang period, sold for 4,0003,000 HKD (~$537,000).
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"In the inner city, there's a game: gunshots or firecrackers?" said Steve Sias, a high school student at Baltimore City College who came to the Washington march.
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The period from mid-October to mid-November also coincides with Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, when residents set-off firecrackers as part of the celebrations.
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As marvelous as it is to hear "Bodak Yellow" in isolation, it sounds even better in the album's context, surrounded by twelve other firecrackers of its caliber.
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India, which has the world's 14 most polluted cities, has made little effort this year to curb the sale of ear-splitting, firecrackers that explode through Diwali night.
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FirecrackerWhile the abstract for this particular emoji says it's intended to commemorate the Chinese tradition of lighting firecrackers during the new year, this could absolutely represent an orgasm.
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"I was honestly convinced it was fireworks or firecrackers," he says, revealing that after taking a few more steps he realized that the popping sounds were actually gunfire.
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There, again, amid firecrackers and songs, Mr. Morales and his surrogates portrayed the president as a savior without whom Bolivia would be carved up by right-wing zealots.
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Many blamed the large volumes of firecrackers and fireworks set off Sunday night to celebrate the Hindu festival of lights, leaving less than desirable conditions for miserable commuters.
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A separate crowd in front of the election supervisory body threw rocks and firecrackers at police around dawn, and dozens of chanting protesters joined them during the morning.
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Lawrence Russo was buying a scratch-off ticket at nearby gas station when he heard what he at first thought were firecrackers before he realized they were gunshots.
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The police have been trying to crack down on prohibited firecrackers for years in the country, where lighting one is a common way of celebrating a festive occasion.
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After Hindus celebrating a festival set off firecrackers near a mosque, several dozen Muslim men converged on a nearby Hindu temple, pelting it with stones, the police said.
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Khan's fans set off firecrackers outside his home in Mumbai and outside the court in Jodhpur in the northwestern state of Rajasthan after the actor was granted bail.
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We would be in their ears telling them when road flares, firecrackers and smoke bombs were coming at them because they couldn't see outside of their camera monitors.
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For the first time, there will be cameras monitoring citizens as they set off firecrackers and light up the night sky with sparkling rockets at midnight on Saturday.
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With the use of the new firecrackers, toxic emissions would go down by 30-40 percent, said Rakesh Kumar, director of the state-run National Environmental Engineering Research Institute.
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Some of the roughly 1,000 protesters in Oakland broke store windows, left graffiti on buildings and threw M-80 firecrackers, Molotov cocktails and bottles at police officers, authorities said.
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FAILED CAR BOMBING, May 1, 2010 New York police thwarted an attempted car bomb in Times Square, defusing a crude device made out of firecrackers and propane gas tanks.
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Jill Keats was on her way to a local mall to enjoy lunch with her sister when she heard the horrific sounds of what she initially thought were firecrackers.
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Activists in India, home to the world's 14 most polluted cities, had petitioned the court for another ban on fireworks ahead of Diwali, when millions of firecrackers are lit.
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"This decision should have come earlier because manufacturers are ready with all kinds of firecrackers and it will be very hard to stop them," said Greenpeace campaigner Sunil Dahiya.
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Chen also explained that firecrackers are typically used at midnight on Chinese New Year — the festivities begin on the Chinese New Year's Eve — to ring in the year ahead.
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Then the crowd moved near the parliament building where a group of protesters kept hurling petrol bombs and firecrackers, to which police responded with tear gas and water jets.
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Outnumbering the 1,000-odd Pride marchers four-to-one, they assaulted and terrorized them, shouted death threats, and pelted them with firecrackers, cobblestones, and bottles, some filled with urine.
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Some of the protesters pelted the migrants in the square with flares, firecrackers and stones broken off sidewalks, and some chanted "burn them alive," according to local news media.
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The match was then interrupted for nearly 10 minutes in the second half as Albania fans set up more firecrackers, creating a cloud of smoke over Buffon's penalty area.
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Police on Sunday detained 46 people in Leiyang city in Hunan province after bottles, bricks and firecrackers were thrown at officers and government officials during a 600-strong protest.
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In Ohio, for instance, it is legal to purchase certain fireworks like firecrackers and bottle rockets, but it is illegal to set off those same fireworks within state borders.
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Click here to view original GIFHere's a really fantastic use of time, resources, and uh, creative freedom: get 100,000 firecrackers and light 'em all up at the same dang time.
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The sound of gunfire and explosions blasted from a set of speakers as the instructors set off smoke bombs and firecrackers to simulate the stressful conditions of a combat zone.
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The homeowner told police that the man, named Matthew Morrison, allegedly "threw a string of lit firecrackers where a 9-year-old girl was sound asleep," according to the statement.
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Here's what happened on Instagram, and btw since I love each and every single one of you, please don't blow off your hand trying to impress people with cheap firecrackers.
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"We thought it was firecrackers or a joke to begin with, what with the yellow vest protests at the moment," he said, referring to nationwide demonstrations against high living costs.
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"He was strapped with some homemade incendiary devices, some firecrackers and doused himself with some kind of flammable liquid and attempted to set himself on fire," Captain Perry told reporters.
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German authorities evacuated part of a Christmas market in Potsdam near Berlin earlier this month after a package containing powerful firecrackers, wires and nails was delivered to a nearby pharmacy.
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"I don't think he even knew how to make an enemy," said Ms. Rice, who said she had heard the shots from inside their house and hoped they were firecrackers.
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The blast, which took place in Gurdaspur in the northern state of Punjab, gutted a building that was being used to manufacture firecrackers in a residential part of the city.
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Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, a spokesman for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party said he would personally distribute firecrackers if the Supreme Court decides to ban the sale of fireworks on Diwali.
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An effort to clear protesters resulted in scuffles: protesters hurled multiple firecrackers in the direction of the police, and accused police of prioritizing the safety of white nationalists over D.C. residents.
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India&aposs Supreme Court banned the sale of firecrackers in New Delhi ahead of last month&aposs Hindu Diwali festival to try to curb air pollution in the notoriously smoggy city.
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Piccolo firecrackers — often available as a cardboard cylinder of gunpowder and pyrotechnic material — are readily available and inexpensive, they're often the cause of the majority of accidents and injuries at home.
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Demonstrators set fire to a rainbow flag and threw firecrackers and smoke bombs toward the entrance of Tblisi's Amirani cinema, as moviegoers - many of them young people - struggled to get inside.
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The demons used the cover of darkness to spread across the crowd and set off firecrackers attached to their costumes, turning the square into a hellish ball of fire and smoke.
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"I thought it was firecrackers," said Ray Rivera, 42, who was working at the club as a D.J. He lowered the reggae song he was playing to get a better listen.
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Air quality usually worsens in New Delhi ahead of Diwali, the festival of lights, and the Supreme Court temporarily banned the sale of firecrackers, aiming to lessen the risk to health.
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Demonstrators set fire to a rainbow flag and threw firecrackers and smoke bombs toward the entrance of Tblisi's Amirani cinema, as moviegoers - many of them young people - struggled to get inside.
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Members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were seen celebrating the launch of the GST with firecrackers on Friday evening and by painting "Welcome GST" slogans on roads.
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That same day a protester did toss several "ping pong bombs," which are home-made firecrackers, from the roof of Government House, according to The Nation, a Bangkok-based media outlet.
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But you'd think that the show would have avoided the casual Orientalism of its depiction of Chinatown, which begins with a lion dance and firecrackers and progresses to hatchet-wielding triads.
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In a speech, Sonia Gandhi described her son as the new hope for the Congress party, as workers danced, burst firecrackers and distributed sweets to celebrate the generational shift in leadership.
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The ordinance was introduced after an especially violent Halloween in 1968 where a city in the Hampton Roads region witnessed several incidents, including people throwing firecrackers into trick or treaters' Halloween bags.
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A million people descended last night on Paris as the sun began to set, chanting, rocking Metro carriages, clambering onto bus shelters and up lamp posts, and setting off flares and firecrackers.
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In what could be seen as a major step in curbing severe air pollution, India's Supreme Court on Friday deemed it illegal to sell firecrackers in Delhi and the National Capital Region.
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The emergency measures follow a week of unusually high smog levels in the city, which many people blamed on the firecrackers and fireworks set off last Sunday night in celebration of Diwali.
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The lunar new year, which officially starts on Saturday, is the only holiday of the year for lots of Chinese, and is normally marked by riotous displays of fireworks and countless firecrackers.
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Firecrackers set off to celebrate the Chinese New Year are often also red, and representations of gods at local temples are draped in red garments in honor of the holiday, Liao explained.
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Alexis Tait, 23, said she heard what sounded like firecrackers going off until she saw her friend Kristina Kaylee Morisette fall to the floor - one of a dozen people the gunman killed.
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In Chinese legend, a mythical beast called Nian, which terrorized a village every New Year, was repelled by firecrackers and the color red; thus were born red decorations around the New Year.
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Local CBS-affiliate KOIN reported that the rightwing group Patriot Prayer and members of the self-described anti-fascist Antifa group clashed in downtown Portland, with participants lighting firecrackers and smoke bombs.
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In the streets, firecrackers exploded, blazing crosses were carried and the air filled with smoke as the people of Lewes, in southeast England, paraded in a dazzling array of costumes on Nov.
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A phase one alert was last issued for particle pollution on New Year's Day 2005, a time when air quality was likely affected by heavy use of firecrackers, a city official said.
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LUBLIN (Reuters) - Alicja Sienkiewicz was attending a gay pride event in the Polish city of Bialystok in July when a group of young men shouting expletives surrounded her wheelchair and hurled firecrackers.
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LUBLIN (Reuters) - Alicja Sienkiewicz was attending a gay pride event in the Polish city of Bialystok in July when a group of young men shouting expletives surrounded her wheelchair and hurled firecrackers.
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As a coach of the German Olympic Sailing team, he was fueling up his boat at a waterfront gas station last month when he heard a sound that he initially thought was firecrackers.
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Setting off on a protest route negotiated with the authorities, the Pegida supporters hurled bottles and firecrackers at the helmeted police officers, who then shut down the demonstration because it had turned violent.
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Firecrackers and pyrotechnics materials stored in the temple in the southern state detonated on Sunday after thousands of devotees gathered to witness the pyrotechnic show to mark the start of the Hindu year.
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That package, which contained powerful firecrackers, wires and nails and did not explode, was found to be a criminal extortion attempt against logistics firm DHL rather than "terrorism," German authorities said on Sunday.
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The smog comes from several factors — nearby farmers burning off "stubble" or old crops, emissions from the city's millions of vehicles, dust from construction, and firecrackers set off to celebrate the Diwali Festival.
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With the Hindu festival of lights Diwali in full swing last week, New Delhi residents celebrated with fireworks, lamps, firecrackers, and bottle rockets that sent smoke and ash through the chronically congested metropolis.
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She said that she had heard the sound of firecrackers and people shouting outside and had gone to her balcony on the eighth floor, where she has a view of the parking lot.
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Celebrating the new year and the dawn of the 2020s, annual Spanish festival includes battle of flour, eggs and firecrackers, Iraqi protesters storm the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the Newseum closes in Washington.
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" Amity Shlaes, the conservative writer and the chair of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, where Rebekah Mercer is a trustee, told me, "In the dull crowds of policy, the Mercers are enchanting firecrackers.
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A man indeed threw five firecrackers from the roof of a bank toward the Government House building in Bangkok on Tuesday, apparently in a bid to get attention, according to The Bangkok Post.
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New Delhi (CNN)The Indian Supreme Court banned the sale of most firecrackers Tuesday, amid concerns their use during annual Diwali celebrations next month will again send pollution levels spiking across the country.
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Later, as dusk fell on Saturday, hundreds of thousands of South Koreans gathered in central Seoul to celebrate Ms. Park's ouster, dancing to the Queen song "We Are the Champions" and releasing firecrackers.
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Security forces used teargas, water cannon and rubber bullets to push protesters, who pelted them with rocks and firecrackers, away from the main sit-in site and government buildings in the capital city.
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From the Philippines to North Korea and Indonesia people ushered in the Year of the Monkey with traditional dragon and lion dances, games and firecrackers to drive away evil spirits and bring good luck.
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A police spokesman said the troopers were sent into al-Aqsa after suspects who had barricaded themselves in after running confrontations in the surrounding compound, during which masked men launched firecrackers from handheld canisters.
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The Minnesota State Patrol arrested six people, five of whom were detained for allegedly setting off firecrackers inside the capitol building, not for fighting, according to Steve Linders, spokesman for the St. Paul Police.
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Keats was driving down Deans Avenue to go to the mall when she heard what she thought were firecrackers and saw young men running down the street, Newshub, a New Zealand news outlet, reported.
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"I really am convinced we're in danger of the sort of terrorist attacks that will make the ['93] bombing of the Trade Center look like kids playing with firecrackers," Trump wrote, according to CNN.
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Other regions are also implementing restrictions -- the northern state of Uttar Pradesh will only allow people to set off firecrackers in a two-hour window on the evening of Diwali, according to CNN-News18.
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Firecrackers is populated with dozens of talented photographers, but there's one artist in particular that most seamlessly melds the personal with the political, the documentary with the surreal, and the philosophical with the everyday.
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It's not hard to understand how the firecrackers you played with as a kid worked, but YouTube's BeyondSlowMotion channel reveals how those gigantic fireworks that fill the night sky with colorful sparkles actually work.
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Congressmen at the ballpark described hearing loud noises like the sound of firecrackers and 15 to 20 people lying on the ground and realizing they had only baseball bats to defend themselves against bullets.
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The nine detained have been charged in Greece with setting up and belonging to a criminal organization, terrorist-related acts of supplying explosive materials, and with illegal possession of firearms, smoke bombs and firecrackers.
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"Your one decision to allow sale and use of firecrackers in current times, while half of our country turns into a gas chamber, will kill toddlers, children and elderly," Jha said in a Tweet.
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Ozan Tufan then fired a rising shot past goalkeeper Petr Cech in the 65th minute to start a wild celebration among Turkish supporters who lit firecrackers and flares that landed on the field. (AP)
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They also detail the horror among 22,000 concertgoers in Las Vegas when they realized the noises interrupting the Route 91 Harvest Festival were not firecrackers but bullets being fired from the Mandalay Bay hotel.
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Fans were able to smuggle dangerous objects, including flares, smoke bombs and firecrackers, into the stadium, and inefficient security screens left packs of fans crushed into dangerous masses of people outside the entry points.
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The attacks took place just before midnight when hundreds of young men, apparently intoxicated and between the ages of 15 and 35, swarmed the crowded square and let off firecrackers, perhaps as a distraction.
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LUBLIN, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Alicja Sienkiewicz was attending a gay pride event in the Polish city of Bialystok in July when a group of young men shouting expletives surrounded her wheelchair and hurled firecrackers.
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The playback of the officer's gunshots is still jarring—clapping against your eardrums never quite when expected, like the loads of firecrackers that splinter the humid evening air every Fourth of July in Louisiana.
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They burned portraits of Rama and threw firecrackers at the building, but the demonstration - the fourth against his administration since mid-February and timed to coincide with parliamentary sessions - was calmer than in previous weeks.
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Beginning in October, stubble farmland around Delhi, along with vehicle and industrial emissions, and the lighting of firecrackers during Hindu festivals combine to create a toxic haze that can hang over the city for months.
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Police said some people in the crowd became "disruptive" when two men were detained because of a dispute, and some firecrackers were thrown but police broke it up and the two men were later released.
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Television pictures showed officers in riot gear and with batons charging hundreds of protesters who threw smoke bombs, stones and firecrackers and tried to separate from the police by dragging metal fences into the streets.
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The court banned the sale of firecrackers outright during the Hindu festival of lights last year but revelers bought them from neighboring states and air pollution in New Delhi hit 18 times the healthy limit.
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Such smog drifts over Delhi each November, after farmers burn the remnants of their rice crops to clear the land for wheat, and Hindus celebrate Diwali, a festival of lights, with a barrage of firecrackers.
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But as the demonstration progressed into the evening, the number of protesters swelled to 3,500 and some began lobbing cobblestones, firecrackers and glass bottles at the officers, injuring 123, the police said in a statement.
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On Sunday morning, the police said, Mr. Zhou caught a bus to Shanghai and went to the airport in the afternoon, when he detonated at least one beer bottle packed with the powder from firecrackers.
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There were an estimated 1000 injuries from firecrackers, 500 from sparkler injuries, 400 from Roman candles, and 300 from bottle rockets (if you needed clarification, a device called a "bottle rocket" is not perfectly safe).
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"You put up an electric fence to keep an elephant away, you shoot firecrackers over their heads — the whole point is to try and physically prevent elephants from getting to human habitat," Dr. Plotnik said.
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Huge crowds of railway workers, teachers, students, hospital workers and other protesters peacefully marched down Paris's wide boulevard Magenta, and amid blaring loudspeakers and occasional firecrackers, commuters struggled to find ways to get to work.
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Despite rising pollution levels, the Delhi government and the federal environment ministry have shied away from asking the Supreme Court for a complete ban on the sale of firecrackers, according to the petitions reviewed by Reuters.
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The two men were flipping channels when they heard what first sounded like firecrackers left over from the Fourth of July, a mistake many neighbors made due to the proximity of the shooting to the holiday.
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While slashing at Gyoubu's horse repeatedly and occasionally frightening it with firecrackers so I could hit it some more, I was trying to think of other great games that let you take down these gigantic mammals.
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GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER (Reuters) - Hurling pipe bombs and setting off firecrackers, "Night Disturbance Units" have become a new phenomenon on the Gaza-Israel border in the run-up to the first anniversary of deadly border protests.
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The police in Cologne say they believe several hundred men, ages 15 to 35 and visibly drunk, were involved in the violence, which began when they tossed firecrackers into the crowd that had thronged the square.
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World Briefing New Year's firecrackers left at least one man dead and 380 others injured, and caused a fire that gutted 1,000 dwellings in the Philippines despite rain and a government warning campaign, officials said Friday.
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In Amritsar, video footage showed the effigy of the demon Ravana had just been lit and firecrackers were going off when the train plowed into the crowd, who were craning their necks and applauding the show.
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The Department of Health-Epidemiology Bureau (DOH-EB) reported Sunday that most of the injuries were recorded in the capital city of Manila, and that nearly half of all the injuries were caused by piccolo firecrackers.
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By evening on Wednesday, several hundred people had gathered in the pens, and at one point, police officers fired tear gas into a crowd of anti-impeachment protesters after firecrackers were lobbed in the officers' direction.
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At least nine people were killed and 900 injured in two nights of the violence in Jakarta last month, with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets and protesters charging them with rocks, sticks and firecrackers.
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Instead of going the obvious route and illustrating the animals associated with each year, he chose to depict symbolic objects that feature in Lunar New Year celebrations, from cumquats and bamboo to firecrackers and red lanterns.
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Sitting outside his shop Delhi's old city area, Maheshwar Dayal Sharma, the fifth generation of his family to sell firecrackers, lamented that in 2017 he sold only 10 percent of his inventory because of the court ban.
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The rapid-fire popping sounded like firecrackers at first, and many in the crowd of 22,000 country music fans didn't understand what was happening when the band stopped playing and singer Jason Aldean bolted off the stage.
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An additional 380 people were injured by exploding firecrackers and other incidents during the New Year's Eve revelry, which is traditionally marked in the Philippines with massive displays of pyrotechnics and celebratory gunshots fired into the air.
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Clashes and roadblocks rocked Bolivia on Monday following the resignation of Morales, with crowds of his jubilant foes celebrating with firecrackers in the streets and a tearful opposition leader laying out a possible path toward new elections.
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"There is a huge responsibility on Congress party now and we will work towards fulfilling promises we made in these states," party president Rahul Gandhi told a press conference as jubilant supporters danced and set off firecrackers.
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Usually, though, religion came up only in the context of festivals: The neighbors gave us fresh meat each time they slaughtered a lamb for Eid; we invited their children to light firecrackers with us to celebrate Diwali.
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David Bonifay, managing editor of The Dallas Weekly, a paper covering African-American issues, was on Commerce Street, near Dallas's Kennedy memorial and toward the back of the marching crowd, when he heard what sounded like firecrackers.
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It was a hair-raising start for Italy but they survived to take a 12th minute lead when Andrea Belotti was pushed by Migjen Basha in the area and De Rossi, undisturbed by the firecrackers, converted confidently.
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The devastation was grave enough (although there were no deaths), and the outrage was fierce enough, that the moratorium on firecrackers, bottle rockets, and Roman candles remained the status quo in Iowa for more than 80 years.
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Since it's legal to buy and shoot firecrackers in Gary—a once-booming steel town with a declining population of about 77,000—it's not out of the ordinary to hear them on a random Wednesday like today.
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BERLIN — While Germans are stocking up on firecrackers and Champagne to welcome the New Year, officials are setting up roadblocks and safety zones for women to ensure that festivities in cities across the country remain peaceful and safe.
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A ban on the sale of firecrackers before Diwali in October appeared to keep the problem in check, but the illegal burning of crops, which contributes significantly to pollution at this time of the year, has just started.
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"The Iranian nation is moving forward and advancing; even these firecrackers that were set off today will not impact our nation's will; everyone must know this," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation's supreme leader, said on his official website.
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In its judgment, the court said the ban would apply to traditional firecrackers, but not so-called "green" fireworks, which it defined as being "low emission sound and light emitting functional crackers" that produce less polluting particulate matter.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police on Sunday said it has detained 46 people in Leiyang city after bottles, bricks and firecrackers were thrown at officers and government officials during a 600-strong protest against problems in the education system.
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Farha's husband instantly divorced her last year by saying "talaq, talaq, talaq" in a fit of anger after their 10-year-old daughter had asked him for five rupees (seven cents) to buy some firecrackers for a holiday celebration.
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The harbour is still crammed with fishing boats—calling on the spirit world for luck, one exuberant crew let off strings of firecrackers and threw joss paper up in the air as their vessel steamed out of the harbour.
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From the daytime darkness of the Siberian winter to living with a septuagenarian hoarder and coping with death by dressing strangers in a loved one's clothes, Firecrackers is much more than just a compilation of works by female photographers.
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MADRID (Reuters) - More than a thousand Spanish taxi drivers blocked a central Madrid boulevard on Thursday, beeping horns and setting off firecrackers, to protest plans to open the country to greater competition from ride-hailing and car-sharing services.
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Linda gets her token lines of sniping, but it's not funny sniping (the insults are too soft-edged; they aren't allowed to be brittle), and this means that the movie's mother-daughter jokes are like firecrackers with damp fuses.
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NICE, France (Reuters) - More than two dozen soccer fans were hurt in a stampede in Nice on Tuesday when revelers let off firecrackers moments before the final whistle of France's World Cup semi-final win, a local official said.
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There was no lack of zeal, however, in the city of Chongqing where prosecutors brought charges against a man who strapped on firecrackers, doused himself with gasoline and held up a lighter to defy a ban on public gatherings.
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A strong countervailing force might have encouraged him to look beyond the sitcom laugh track — and might have informed him that his spice rack of gender and ethnic stereotypes (women are paradoxes; Puerto Ricans are firecrackers) has gone stale.
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In efforts to combat the Diwali pollution, New Delhi authorities this year are also granting fewer licenses to pyrotechnic vendors than usual, and the Health Ministry urged the public to use more environmentally friendly firecrackers, according to CNN affiliate CNN-News18.
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It's typically celebrated with firecrackers, which contribute to already massive amounts of smog in many Indian cities -- after last year's Diwali, parts of New Delhi reported levels of pollution almost 40 times those considered "safe" by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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KOCHI, India (Reuters) - An Indian high court on Tuesday banned the use of high-decibel firecrackers between sunset and sunrise after a fireworks display at a Hindu temple in Kerala state ignited a series of explosions and killed 110 people.
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The Supreme Court last month allowed the use of "green" firecrackers for Diwali to try to curb pollution, but it was unclear how the rule would be enforced or whether there was such a thing as an environmentally safe firework.
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To curb pollution levels around Diwali, the country's top court on Tuesday only allowed the use of "green" firecrackers, but it was unclear how the rule will be enforced or whether there was such a thing as an environmentally safe firework.
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New Delhi ranks among the world's most polluted cities, with air quality usually worsening at this time of year, when smoke from firecrackers celebrating the Hindu festival of lights and crops burnt in nearby states envelops the city of 16 million.
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But its financing still relies on a hodgepodge of funds grudgingly contributed and newly withheld by every echelon of government, as the states and the feds continue to toss the big burdens of health care back and forth like sputtering firecrackers.
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Once certain that she's not going to blow herself up, she sets off a few roman candles and a package of Wolf Packs—firecrackers that look similar to the ones Kevin McCalister fires off in a kitchen pot in Home Alone.
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To curb pollution levels around Diwali, the country's top court this month only allowed the use of "green" firecrackers, but it was unclear how the rule would be enforced or whether there was such a thing as an environmentally safe firework.
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All this is delicious, but the texture is the wonder: the tangled strands juicy and yielding and then holding back, with buried knots of crunch where the meat took hard to the pan, popping at intervals like a string of firecrackers.
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NEW DELHI — A fire at an industrial building on the outskirts of New Delhi broke out as workers were stuffing gunpowder into firecrackers, trapping many of them on the factory's upper floors as it spread, and leaving at least 17 dead.
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They include any noise, like the one from the ball-washing machine here, that sounds like firecrackers; a helicopter flying overhead; or his favorite Jason Aldean song, "When She Says Baby," which he was performing when the first shots rang out.
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Watching a really good all-girls squad is hypnotic, but watching a co-ed one feels like a revelation, like the full expression of the sport: This is what cheerleading could look like, like firecrackers exploding one after the other.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Prosecutors in China have brought criminal charges against a 59-year-old man who strapped on firecrackers and doused himself with gasoline to defy a ban on public gatherings during a coronavirus epidemic, the Xinhua news agency said.
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As people are evacuating the stadium, firecrackers go off nearby, and suddenly many in the crowd, aware from text messages and rumors that Paris appears to be under attack, turn and rush back into the stadium, pouring onto the field.
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This year, authorities hope that a Supreme Court ban on the sale of most firecrackers will help prevent a plunge in air quality, though critics are skeptical about how effective the ban will be and how it will be enforced.
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Less than a week ago, the streets of this small farming city rang with cheers and firecrackers as the team punched its ticket to the final of the Sudamericana Cup, capping a fairy tale rise from Brazil's fourth division in 2009.
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TIRANA (Reuters) - Supporters of Albanian opposition parties rallied on Saturday to ask Prime Minister Edi Rama to quit and pave the way to fresh polls, dispersing after throwing firecrackers and flares to police who responded with water jets and tear gas.
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Once certain that she's not going to blow herself up, she sets off a few roman candles and a package of Wolf Packs—firecrackers that look similar to the ones Kevin McCalister fires off in a kitchen pot in Home Alone .
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Authorities, reluctant to step in to curb the rampant use of firecrackers on Diwali, one of the most important festivals for millions of Hindus across the country, are passing the buck to the Supreme Court to restrict the sale and use of fireworks.
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Safety measures at such workshops and markets have been a matter of constant debate in Mexico, where festivals big and small feature small rockets and bomblets, often at close range of spectators, and where individuals often set off firecrackers in the streets.
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Ajay Singh, president of the Boxing Federation of India, said Delhi's air quality was improving as the effects of last week's Hindu festival of Diwali - when tens of thousands of firecrackers are let off, clogging the air with smoke - were wearing off.
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But then she had always sprung surprises, bewitching a billion people as the shy girl from Sivakasi who, like the town's famous firecrackers, could go from silent doll to live wire in the split second it took for the cameras to roll.
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Late last year, Delhi and a large part of northern India were covered in a toxic smog from burning crop waste and the countless firecrackers let off for Diwali, forcing authorities to shut power stations, ban construction and clamp down on garbage burning.
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Each year, smoke from firecrackers covers Delhi and its satellite cities in a haze that can linger for days as wind speeds drop in the cooler weather, adding to pollution caused by the burning of crop residue, vehicle exhausts and industrial gases.
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A man accused of setting off primitive explosives at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, injuring four bystanders, was dogged by gambling debts and had threatened to do something "totally crazy" before he detonated a bomb made from firecrackers, police investigators said on Monday.
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Revelers gorge on banquets, give each other packets of money known as "hong bao," wear the lucky color red, and set off firecrackers to scare off the legendary half-dragon, half-lion monster "Nian" who comes out of hiding during Lunar New Year.
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BEIJING, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Prosecutors in China have brought criminal charges against a 59-year-old man who strapped on firecrackers and doused himself with gasoline to defy a ban on public gatherings during a coronavirus epidemic, the Xinhua news agency said.
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Firecrackers have been banned in the area around the cathedral, and Jürgen Mathies, the police chief in Cologne, also forbade far-right groups from holding protests in the area, citing the difficulty of ensuring the safety of the protesters and the partygoers.
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"At younger ages, loud toys, firecrackers, loud video games, personal stereos or personal music players, lawnmowers or leaf blowers, sporting events or air shows, or other non-music events might be more likely noisy activities than music venue attendance," Le Prell said.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - With a toxic smog beginning to envelop New Delhi as winter approaches, residents of the Indian capital are set to make matters a lot worse by burning hundreds of thousands of firecrackers to celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali early next month.
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Their strength coach started off well, but guffawed two seconds in: It's too bad this is sideways, but clearly, the challenge was rolling through the locker room like a chain of firecrackers, because Stephon Tuitt had built a huddle around him as he caved.
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Grieving relatives and residents, some of whom were still scouring the bloodied fields for belongings of their loved ones, said there was no warning from the train as it rolled down the tracks just as firecrackers exploded in the sky in the annual Dusshera festival.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the use of "green" firecrackers for Diwali next month to try to curb pollution, but it was unclear how the rules will be enforced or whether there was such a thing as an environmentally safe firework.
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In the short amount of time he had to assess the situation, he couldn't tell at first if someone had ignited firecrackers, if there was a sniper on campus or if shots were coming from inside or outside the building, Peterson told the morning show.
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Living in New York City, it's hard to imagine getting away with carrying around a stash of firecrackers and bullets on the subway every day, but I'd be happy adding a headlamp and maybe an emergency blanket or fleece hat to my trusty pack.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top court on Monday temporarily banned the sale of firecrackers in and around the capital ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, as it looks to prevent a repeat of severe air pollution that forced school closures last year.
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Witness, for instance, the images and footage of what Israel termed "grenades" and "improvised explosive devices," but which were in fact homemade firecrackers, familiar to Gazan teenagers who sometimes set them off at weddings and parties, which make a loud noise and little else.
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Their journey to the stadium was filled with firecrackers, blue and yellow flares and chants of "Ethnic Albania," a reference to the idea of a Greater Albania that would unite ethnic Albanians who are split among five countries: Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece and Albania.
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ROHTAK, India — Diwali is the Hindu festival of light, and during the height of the celebrations in India each autumn, much of that illumination is coming from barely controlled explosions: the firecrackers, sparklers and other fireworks that millions here love to ignite as night falls.
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If you didn't know that the continual explosions heard in Asghar Farhadi's film "Fireworks Wednesday" were the sounds of firecrackers and cherry bombs celebrating the Persian New Year in the streets of Tehran, they could easily be mistaken for deadly wartime explosions in a city under siege.
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NEW DELHI — India's Supreme Court on Friday banned the sale of firecrackers in the capital region, reflecting a growing sense of urgency after a thick smog engulfed Delhi for 10 days early this month, trapping its population of 20 million in dangerous concentrations of polluted air.
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During the Tong Wars of the early 20th century, the theater was neutral territory, where Hip Sings and Un Leongs sat separately but peaceably, until the day in 1905 when Hip Sing gunmen set off firecrackers during a performance and then opened fire on their rivals.
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But just as critical to success is effective use of shinobi prosthetics, a wide-ranging set of eccentric tools, which includes everything from fast firing shurikens to interrupt attacks, a flame vent to set enemies ablaze, or firecrackers that briefly blind anyone in front of you.
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That decision, made early last year, has resulted in some false scares, like a Safety Check activation in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2016 over some firecrackers that were misidentified as a bomb thanks to an outdated news story and a flood of user posts that scrambled Facebook's algorithm.
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The court, which recently banned the sale of firecrackers in the New Delhi area, also ordered a ban on the sale and use of furnace oil - another dirty refinery by-product - in and around the capital and ordered implementation of strict emission norms by the end of December.
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The demonstrators lit boxes and tree stumps, sprayed foam and water, and threw firecrackers, as they marched near the Belgian prime minister's office and official Union leader Erik Labourdette said the firefighters' monthly average 1,500 euro ($1,680) package was going down by about 300 euros in planned cuts.
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During a campaign rally through the streets of Tainan in the DPP's traditional stronghold of southern Taiwan, tens of thousands thronged the streets, set off firecrackers, waved flags and cheered as DPP presidential frontrunner Tsai Ing-wen, likely to become the island's first woman president, swept by in a motorcade.
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This year, the court, which has heard submissions from the city government, the environment ministry and the firecracker industry, has so far refrained from giving an order to ban the sale of firecrackers The court hasn't indicated whether it will make a ruling before Diwali, that falls this year on Nov 20173.
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Photograph by Cole Wilson for The New Yorker Next up was mao xue wang, a stew of ox tripe, duck blood, and beef tongue—which, legend has it, was conceived by a butcher named Wang—that arrived burbling in a lavalike soup that packed the heat of firecrackers ignited on your tongue.
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And despite the violence between English and Russian supporters when their teams met in Marseille at the start of group play, despite Croatian and Hungarian fans somehow smuggling firecrackers into stadiums, the majority of those who came from all over Europe and beyond were able to safely enjoy the sport and their time in France.
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The city's high levels of fine particles — the most deadly because they penetrate more deeply into the lungs — have now soared off the charts, even by New Delhi's standards, because of seasonal smoke from the burning of leftover crops by farmers in nearby states and from firecrackers set off to celebrate the Diwali holiday.
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There were met with smoke bombs, firecrackers, trash fires, bottles, blaring music and the pent-up anger of thousands of protesters — the whole spectacle overseen by riot police, armored water cannons and circling helicopters, not to mention a cadre of lawyers patrolling the streets to assist marchers with their legal rights should they be detained.
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Another skit celebrated China's relationship with Africa, a key part of Xi's Belt and Road initiative, complete with an African actress speaking in Chinese and quoting Xi. The lunar new year of the dog, which officially starts on Friday, is the only holiday of the year for many Chinese, and is normally marked by riotous bursts of fireworks and firecrackers.
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Far from dumping the infants on the streets, Johnson heard repeatedly from birth families that they had left children outside carefully selected homes, then set off firecrackers to make sure someone would come outside and find the baby—this subterfuge necessary so that the adopting family would not know who the birth family was, and therefore be unable to identify them to government investigators.
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The types of images that emerged on Saturday — heavily armed riot police making their way through clouds of smoke from the teargas they fired, clashing with angry protesters who were throwing stones and firecrackers, in an idyllic, snowcapped Alpine setting — are becoming commonplace as anger over immigration and border issues continues to heat up across Europe, fueled by the ongoing refugee crisis and Islamophobia.
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A search of the brothers' apartment turned up what Ms. Hanft called "a veritable trove" of chemicals and other bomb-making materials, including a box containing 20 pounds of iron oxide, five pounds of aluminum powder, five pounds of potassium nitrate, a jar of explosive powder, a box of firecrackers and a bag containing scores of metal spheres of varying sizes, which the authorities said could become projectiles in a blast.
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Meeting up with our driver, we were taken a gridlocked mile to a blockaded street (though motorcycles zigzagged through) and, my camera at the ready now, we stepped out into a stream of people passing kiosks selling firecrackers, chewing tobacco, incense, plastic figurines of Vishnu and Ganesh, and swamis with painted faces offering to pose for 50 rupees, about 75 cents, toward broad steps of the ghat, a word derived from the Sanskrit term for embankment.
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Before long, Albini would find his tribe alongside other weird Chicago punk acts, bringing in Naked Raygun members Santiago Durango and Jeff Pezzatti, as well as Pat Byrne to play live drums over Roland's beats (this is the only release where this occurred), effectively turning Big Black into an actual band on 1984's Bulldozer EP. At live shows, Big Black would open their sets by setting off a brick of firecrackers, filling clubs with the acrid smell of sulfur before launching into their show.
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