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"Later he phoned me to say why he was late back and said 'I think I've just decked a suicide bomber'."

He said one of the ways the spies "fantasised about killing me" was hiring an Islamic State group "suicide bomber and having him explode himself next to me in the street".

The American pop star has supported Royal Manchester Children's Hospital since May 2017, when a suicide bomber targeted fans as they left her concert in the city.

Long before insurgents in the Middle East began deliberately blowing themselves up, the Japanese used kamikaze pilots in World War II, perhaps the first suicide bombers.

The Pope writes that, after landing in Baghdad in March 2021, he was told an event at which he was set to appear was being targeted by two suicide bombers.