China reports its first human case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus for 18 months, in the southern city of Shenzhen.

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Human bird flu case in China city

The death toll from the tropical storm that lashed the southern Philippines just over a week ago has topped 1,200, the government said Monday, as the bodies of people swept out to sea by flash floods wash ashore.

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Death toll in Philippines tops 1,200

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

More than 650 people are dead and hundreds more missing after floods triggered by a tropical storm sweep through the southern Philippines

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Philippines flood toll passes 650

Rescuers are continuing to search for survivors after floods killed more than 400 people and left many others missing in the southern Philippines.

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Philippines steps up flood rescue

MANILA, Philippines — The death toll from storm-triggered flash floods in the southern Philippines has risen to more than 120, with more than 100 people missing, officials said Saturday. Mayor Lawrence Cruz of Iligan city said 79 bodies were recovered Saturday after more than 12 hours of continuous rain from Tropical Storm Washi swelled a river and sent muddy floodwaters cascading down to his city from nearby mountains. Read full article > >

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Seven civilians, including six children, have been killed in a Nato air strike in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, local officials say.

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Afghan children ‘killed by Nato’

Another deadly accident in China’s coal mining industry has killed 29 miners in the southern Hunan province.

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Explosion kills 29 in China mine

The former chief minister of the southern Indian state of Karnataka is arrested in connection with a multi-million dollar corruption scandal.

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BJP minister held over kickbacks

The abrupt reversal of plans to empty Zuccotti Park averted a clash at the southern tip of Manhattan.

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SANAA, Yemen — A government warplane has mistakenly bombed an army position in southern Yemen, killing at least 30 soldiers and wounding many more, military and medical officials said on Sunday. The officials said the bombing, which took place on Saturday evening in the southern Abyan province, targeted an abandoned school used as shelter by soldiers of the army’s 119th Brigade. Read full article > >

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Yemen Defence Minister Mohamed Nasser Ali survives an attack on his convoy in the southern city of Aden, officials say.

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Yemeni minister ‘survives attack’

Anti-Gaddafi forces have captured two key positions close to the southern city of Sabha, says a spokesman for Libya’s transitional authorities.

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The Obama administration has significantly increased the frequency of drone strikes and other air attacks against the al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen in recent months amid rising concern about political collapse there. Some of the the strikes, carried out by the military’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) , have been focused in the southern part of the country, where insurgent forces have for the first time conquered and held territory as the Yemeni government continues to struggle against escalating opposition to President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 33-year rule. Read full article > >

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One person is killed and at least four are injured after a blast at the southern French nuclear site of Marcoule but there have been no leaks, officials say.

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Explosion at French nuclear site