A bomb has exploded in front of a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi killing at least one girl and injuring six others.

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A bomb explodes in front of a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi killing a girl and injuring six others, reports say.

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Bomb explosion hits Italy school

If there’s a trend in the movie biz these days, it isn’t stories with young female heroines, although, admittedly, something’s going on there (see “The Hunger Games,” “Brave,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild”).Rather, it’s movies with an established brand. Read full article > >

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Summer movie preview: Putting their trademark on big-screen sizzle

A fire sweeps through a department store in the southern Philippines, killing 17 employees who were sleeping in the shop.

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Philippines fire leaves 17 dead

A tornado has reportedly torn through a region of the southern region of France

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VIDEO: Tornado filmed in southern France

Three people are killed and dozens are wounded after a grenade is thrown into a cock-fighting arena in the southern Philippines.

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Bomb hits Philippines cock-fight

Twelve people are killed in an al-Qaeda attack on a checkpoint in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, police say.

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Militants attack Yemen checkpoint

As capital punishment erodes in the Northeast and other parts of the country, its status as a Southern phenomenon has intensified.

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Death Penalty Critics Don’t See Nationwide Shift in Connecticut Vote

Seven crew members of an RAF Chinook helicopter have escaped injury after their aircraft made an emergency landing in the southern US.

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RAF Chinook in emergency landing

Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika, once hailed as a positive steward for the southern African country, has died after a heart attack, government officials said Friday.

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Malawi’s president dies of heart attack

At least 10 people were killed and more than 100 wounded following a pair of explosions Saturday in the southern Thai city of Yala, Thai media reported.

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Appraising the career of the Southern novelist Harry Crews, who died Wednesday at 76.

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ArtsBeat: Reading Crews, a Novelist as Swaggering as His Characters

A Saudi diplomat was kidnapped on his way to work Wednesday in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, a Yemeni security official said.

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Saudi Diplomat Kidnapped in Southern Yemen

Gunmen have seized the Saudi deputy consul in the southern Yemeni city of Aden outside his home, police say.

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KABUL — U.S. military officials paid $916,000 to the relatives of villagers allegedly shot by a rogue U.S. soldier earlier this month in Kandahar Province, Afghan officials said Sunday. Payment of “blood money” is a common way to settle disputes stemming from violent deaths in Afghanistan. The money could defuse the intense anger the March 11 massacre generated in the southern province. Read full article > >

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