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A huge car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in the Pakistani capital on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesses said.
The blast echoed through Islamabad and left a crater more than three feet deep..
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South African security ministers have been discussing using the army to help stop a wave of attacks on foreigners, which has left at least 23 people dead.
The deployment of troops, which has been demanded by human rights groups and the opposition, coul..
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Police imposed a daylong curfew in the western Indian city of Jaipur on Wednesday to prevent any retaliatory violence after a series of blasts in crowded areas left at least 80 people dead.
Authorities suspect Islamic militants were behind the blasts,..
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Somali troops killed at least two people in the capital, Mogadishu, when they opened fire to halt riots over rising costs and counterfeit money.
Thousands of people rioted, burning tyres and throwing stones after traders refused to accept local notes a..
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Almost 4,000 people have died and another 3,000 remain missing in Myanmar as a result of this weekend's devastating cyclone, state media reported Monday. The soaring death toll was announced as the reclusive southeast Asian country's ruling military junta..
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Hundreds of people burned a mosque Monday in the West Java province of Indonesia, police said.
Around 300 people attacked the Al Furqon mosque about 1 a.m., damaging a nearby school, police said. The mosque belonged to the Ahmadiyah sect considered her..
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Zimbabwe police raided the offices of opposition party Movement for Democratic Change in the capital city Harare Friday, according to a journalist there. Police, who arrived in several trucks and a bus, took away several people who were "limping and in pa..
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An attacker wearing a suicide vest killed 42 people and injured others at a funeral for a tribal leader in a northern Iraqi Sunni village dominated by the American-backed awakening movement, police said. Police believe the strike appears to be latest assa..
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Bombings Tuesday killed at least 48 people in Baghdad and in two major provincial capitals in Iraq. The deadliest attack happened in the Diyala province capital of Baquba when a car bomb detonated outside a crowded restaurant, killing 40 people and woundi..
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At least 23 people were killed and 171 others were wounded Tuesday in three suicide bombings in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, police have said, as the country's new parliament prepares to be sworn in. Two of the attacks targeted an office of the F..
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Two suicide bombings killed five people on Monday in Diyala province -- the volatile Iraq province that has been a major battleground in the war, police said.
In the first attack, an 18-year-old woman blew herself up about 8 a.m. outside the home of a..
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Swedish police say they have arrested three people in the capital, Stockholm, on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts and financing terror groups.
Earlier on Thursday, Norwegian police said they had arrested three people in the Norwegian capital, Oslo..
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Two earthquakes struck hours apart Sunday in Rwanda and neighboring Congo, killing at least 39 people including some who were in a church that collapsed, officials said.
Nearly 400 people were injured.
A magnitude-6.0 quake struck Congo early, accor..
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Female suicide bombers blew themselves up Friday at two markets in Baghdad, killing at least 64 people and wounding more than 100, authorities said. One bomber struck at a popular pet market around 10:30 a.m. in central Baghdad, killing at least 46 people..
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Suicide bombers killed seven people, including a leading provincial official, in two attacks in and near mosques in Afghanistan on Thursday. Many more were also injured in the bombings in a restive southern provincial seat and the capital of Kabul.
Pol..
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At least 30 people have been killed in a weekend of continuing post-election violence in Kenya, reports say.
In the worst incident 22 people in a Rift Valley camp for displaced people reportedly died after being attacked by mobs armed with machetes and..
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A bomb and shooting attack blamed on Tamil separatists ripped through a packed civilian bus Wednesday, killing 26 people in southeastern Sri Lanka as the government officially withdrew from a tattered cease-fire with the rebels.
Military spokesman Brig..
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A suicide bomber blew himself up among police deployed outside a court in eastern Pakistan ahead of a planned anti-government protest Thursday, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 70, officials and witnesses said.
The blast in front of La..
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Turkish police have detained four people over a car bomb attack which killed five people and injured 68 in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
The four are suspected of links to Thursday's bombing in the Kurdish-majority city, Turkish prosecutor Durdu..
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A car bomb detonated in the middle of a busy market in central Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 64, police and hospital officials said.
At least one woman and a child were killed in the blast, a police officer said on conditio..
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