The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. January 2, 2014 Explosion Kills Palestinian Ambassador to Czech Republic --------------------------------------------------------- The Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic has died in an explosion at his home. Czech officials say Jamal al-Jamal appears to have accidentally triggered an explosive device attached to a safe he had been trying to open. .