BAGHDAD – At least 10 insurgents attacked the western Iraq city of Ramadi on Sunday, setting off six explosions, storming a police station and engaging in a firefight that left at least 21 dead, including eight policemen, government and police officials said. Read full article > >

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Insurgents storm police station in western Iraq; 21 dead

A strike near a Kurdish village by Turkish warplanes close to the border with Iraq has left at least 23 people dead, officials say.

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Turkish air strike kills 23 Kurds

A mass burial is being organised in the Philippines for scores killed by flash floods, which left at least 650 dead on the southern island of Mindanao.

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Mass burial for Philippines dead

A state of emergency is declared in an oil town in Kazakhstan after clashes between strikers and police left at least 11 people dead.

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CAIRO — Egyptians lined up at the polls in large numbers Tuesday for the second day in a row, part of a landmark parliamentary election that Egyptians hope will usher in democracy after decades of autocratic rule.  The voting follow mores than a week of anti-military council demonstrations and a violent crackdown by security forces that left at least 42 people dead. Despite the unrest, Egyptians turned out in droves both Monday and on Tuesday to choose representatives for their first post-Mubarak parliament. The voting will be conducted in stages over a period of three months. Read full article > >

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Tahrir Square crowd dwindles as Egyptians head to the polls

The Arab League rejects a demand by Syria to alter its plan for ending the country’s conflict, which has left at least 3,500 people dead.

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Turnout appeared to be light as polls opened amid calls for a boycott in a presidential runoff following a night of violence that left at least one person dead as police battled opposition supporters.

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Liberia Tense as Presidential Runoff Vote Starts

MANILA, Philippines — Back-to-back typhoons left at least 55 people dead and rescuers scrambling on Sunday to deliver food and water to hundreds of villagers stuck on rooftops for four days because of flooding in the northern Philippines. Typhoon Nalgae slammed ashore in northeastern Isabela province Saturday then barreled across the main Luzon Island’s mountainous north and agricultural plains that were still sodden from fierce rain and wind unleashed by a howler just days earlier. Nalgae left at least three people dead Saturday while Typhoon Nesat killed 52 others in the same region before blowing out Friday. Read full article > >

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Back-to-back typhoons leave 55 dead, villagers marooned on rooftops for days in Philippines

Three separate blasts in Helmand and Kandahar Provinces left at least seven civilians dead, four of them children, and wounded dozens more, Afghan officials said.

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Suicide Attacks Escalate in Afghanistan Before End of Ramadan

Authorities continued investigations Saturday in the torching of a northern Mexico casino that left at least 52 people dead.

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Mexico deploys troops after casino hit

Beansprouts grown in Germany are suspected as the likely source of an E. coli outbreak that has left at least 22 people dead, German officials say.

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Beansprouts new E. coli suspect

SANAA, Yemen — Fighters from Yemen’s powerful tribes fired on government buildings Tuesday, prompting soldiers to respond with intense shelling in street battles that left at least 38 dead as the uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh threatened to become a militia-led revolt. Medical officials said 24 tribesmen were killed in the fiercest fighting on Sanaa’s streets in years. Government officials said 14 soldiers were killed and 20 were missing as the situation deteriorated following the collapse of an Arab mediation effort to get Saleh to step down. Read full article > >

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Battles gripping Yemen’s capital between regime loyalists and powerful tribes kill 38

More than 90 tornadoes left at least 43 people killed and hundreds more injured across middle America to the Eastern Seaboard.

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Gunmen dressed in police uniforms and suicide vests stormed the provincial council office in the northern city of Tikrit in a brazen attack that left at least 12 people dead, officials said.

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Gunmen Seize Hostages at Council Office in Saddam Hussein’s Hometown

The bus company involved in an accident that left at least 14 people dead in New York this weekend has been involved in at least two other crashes with injuries in the past two years, government records show.

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Bronx crash not first for bus operator