The UN Security Council condemns bomb attacks which killed at least 55 people near an intelligence complex in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

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UN condemns Syria bomb attacks

A bomb targeting security forces near a marketplace in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 20 people, local officials say.

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Pakistan market bomb ‘kills 20′

A bomb targeting security forces near a marketplace in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 20 people, local officials say.

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Pakistan market bomb ‘kills 20′

Explosions in southern Thailand have killed at least five, officials say.

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Deadly blasts in Thailand’s south

Cold snap killed at least 48.

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Dozens Die in European Winter

Hopes are fading of finding more survivors after Wednesday’s building collapse in Rio de Janeiro killed at least 17 people, Brazilian officials say.

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Rio disaster survivor hopes fade

The attacks by the sect Boko Haram, which killed at least 143 people, struck police buildings, immigration offices and an office of Nigeria’s secret police.

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Dozens Killed by Radical Islamic Sect in Nigeria

A bomb blast has killed at least 17 people at a Shia religious procession in central Pakistan, officials say.

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Fatal blast hits Pakistan Shias

Floods and landslides caused by heavy rain in south-eastern Brazil have killed at least six people and forced thousands from their homes.

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BAGHDAD — An al-Qaeda-affiliated group has claimed responsibility for a wave of bombings in Baghdad on Thursday that killed at least 65, saying that it “knows where and when to strike.” The group, Islamic State of Iraq, issued a communique on jihadist forums Monday, providing details about one of the attacks, a suicide car bombing that targeted an anti-corruption agency headquarters, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, a jihadist monitoring service. The group referred to the bombings as the “Thursday invasion” and said that it was acting against what it called Iraq’s Shiite-controlled government. Read full article > >

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Boko Haram, a radical Muslim sect waging an increasingly sophisticated sectarian fight, claimed the attack on the church near Abuja that killed at least 25 as well as a second bombing in Jos.

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Explosion Rips Through Catholic Church in Nigeria

The 6.5-magnitude earthquake did not cause widespread destruction, though it caused panic and is known to have killed at least three people.

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Earthquake Strikes Western Mexican State of Guerrero

After a NATO airstrike killed at least two dozen Pakistani soldiers, actions by the United States and Pakistan reflected a distrust that gets harder to repair with each clash.

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News Analysis: Pakistan and U.S., Bitter Allies in Fog of War

A series of explosions in and around the Iraqi capital Baghdad has killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 20, officials say.

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Baghdad explosions leave 15 dead

A series of explosions in and around the Iraqi capital Baghdad has killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 20, officials say.

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Baghdad explosions leave 15 dead