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SAN FRANCISCO: A bomb threat prompted authorities on Tuesday to evacuate a building at the Silicon Valley headquarters of Facebook, police said, but gave the “all clear” after an hours-long search turned up no sign of a device. The New York Police Department had received an anonymous tip about a bomb threat regarding Facebook’s campus in Menlo Park, California, and alerted local authorities at about 4:30 p.m., a spokeswoman for the Menlo Park police said. Late on Tuesday, police said the building was secure, however. “The…

SAN FRANCISCO: A bomb threat prompted authorities on Tuesday to evacuate a building at the Silicon Valley headquarters of Facebook Inc near San Francisco, police said, but hours after a sweep of the structure began there was no word of explosives found. The New York Police Department received an anonymous tip about a bomb threat regarding Facebook’s campus in Menlo Park, California, and alerted local authorities at about 4:30 p.m., said Nicole Acker, a spokeswoman for the Menlo Park police. Acker said the evacuation was…

NEW DELHI: An Indian passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing in the country's western city of Nagpur on Saturday after a hoax bomb threat, GoAir airline said.

AMSTERDAM: Dutch police said they arrested a 29-year-old British man at gunpoint at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Friday after he shouted several times that he had a bomb.

NAIROBI, Kenya: An Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris was forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya early Sunday after a suspicious package was found on board, Kenyan police said.

SINGAPORE CITY: Singapore Airlines said on Sunday there was a bomb threat to one of its flights which originated from San Francisco and landed safely at Singapore's Changi Airport on Sunday.

MULTAN: The administration of Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) on Saturday received a 'threat letter' stating to bomb the varsity, ARY News reported.

KARACHI: Sindh Assembly's Deputy Speaker Shahla Raza has received a bomb threat in a letter with warning of targeting her car with bomb, ARY News reported on Tuesday.

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTES: Hundreds of students and staff at Harvard University received emails on Friday from a sender who threatened to come to the Ivy League school "tomorrow" and shoot them, according to campus police.

Britain scrambled two fighter jets on Tuesday to escort a Qatar Airways plane into Manchester airport after the pilot reported a possible explosive device on board. A passenger was later arrested on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat.