At least eight people were injured when an argument escalated to gunfire in Oklahoma City, just blocks from Chesapeake Energy Arena, after the NBA playoff game between the Thunder and the Los Angeles Lakers, city police said Tuesday.

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Several Hurt in Shooting After Oklahoma City Thunder Game

Gunmen opened fire at an illegal cockfighting ring in southern Texas early Thursday morning, killing three people and wounding at least eight, the Hidalgo County sheriff's office told CNN.

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3 killed in Texas cockfight shooting

At least eight soldiers and three militants have been killed in an attack by militants on an army checkpoint in central Yemen, officials say.

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Attack in central Yemen kills 11

Protesters took to the streets in at least eight provinces on Thursday, as the Taliban called on people to take up arms against foreign and Afghan troops.

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At least eight sea lions have been shot dead in the US state of Washington in the past few weeks, wildlife officials say.

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Sea lions ‘shot’ on US west coast

BEIJING — With the Obama administration’s high-profile pivot toward Asia this week — pushing for a new free-trade agreement with at least eight other countries and securing military basing rights in Australia — China is feeling at once isolated, criticized, encircled and increasingly like a target of U.S. moves. Read full article > >

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BEIJING — With the Obama administration’s high-profile pivot toward Asia this week — pushing for a new free-trade agreement with at least eight other countries and securing military basing rights in Australia — China is feeling at once isolated, criticized, encircled and increasingly like a target of U.S. moves. Read full article > >

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U.S. pivot to Asia makes China nervous

A woman is dead and at least eight people hurt, two critically, as witnesses report a “stampede” as club-goers made for exits at a Northampton nightclub.

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Woman killed in club ‘stampede’

MANILA, Philippines — Slow-moving Typhoon Nanmadol remained dangerous Sunday despite weakening as it struck the tip of the mountainous northern Philippines, leaving at least eight people dead and scuttling a visit by a U.S. Navy battleship group, officials said. Taiwan issued sea and land warnings and planned to evacuate about 6,000 people in its eastern and southern regions as it braced for the typhoon. Troops and rescue equipment were deployed for any contingency, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said. Read full article > >

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Explosions and heavy automatic gunfire sounded hours after suicide bombers attacked the British Council in the Afghan capital. At least eight people were killed.

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Explosions rock British compound in Kabul

The Taliban claimed credit for an attack on a British cultural center in Kabul early on Friday, leaving at least eight people dead.

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A plan calls for the Metropolitan Museum to showcase its modern holdings at the site for at least eight years.

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The Met Plans to Occupy the Whitney’s Uptown Site

At least eight people are killed by US drone missiles in a Pakistani tribal area, officials say, in the first such strike since the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

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Deadly US drone raid in Pakistan

At least eight people belonging to Pakistan’s minority Shia community die in an explosion in the south-western city of Quetta.

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At least eight people belonging to Pakistan’s minority Shia community die in an explosion in the south-western city of Quetta.

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Eight die in Pakistan explosion