At least 2.5 million people in India are marooned after heavy monsoon rains lashed their villages, a government minister said.
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Tropical Storm Gustav churned toward Cuba and the United States after lashing Haiti and the Dominican Republic with hurricane force winds and rain that killed 22 people.
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A car bomb blew up as a Pakistani police bus travelled across a bridge in the country's northwest on Thursday, killing 11 people, police said.
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A suicide bomber detonated Wednesday afternoon his explosive-rigged car, targeting a US military convoy at Maliya crossroads of Mosul, at a spot near the location of another suicide attack that targeted a US military patrol earlier on Wednesday, reported a police source.
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12 persons were injured Wednesday in two separate roadside bombings in Baghdad.
Floodwaters raged through more than 1,000 villages unaccustomed to high water after a river in northeast India burst its banks, UNICEF India and government officials said Tuesday.
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The health ministry in the PA caretaker government has warned that the continued Israeli occupation authority's delay in opening the Gaza crossings would entail serious repercussions on lives of many patients.
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At least five people have been killed and 55 injured after a series of explosions at a chemical plant in southern China, the Xinhua state news agency reported.
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A suicide bomber has struck at an Iraqi security checkpoint in the northern Diyala province, killing at least 28 people and wounding 42 others, police say.
Mountains of clothes donated to victims of China's devastating earthquake are being auctioned off, recycled into mops or left in warehouses because no-one wants them, state press reported Wednesday.
Riot police took up positions early Wednesday outside Thailand's main government compound, as authorities tried to negotiate an end to protests aimed at forcing Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej to resign.
Protesters who stormed Thailand's Government House, a TV station and key ministries went too far in their bid to oust the administration, newspapers said on Wednesday, suggesting the movement has lost public support.
The casualties resulting from suicide bombing at Jalawlaa district on Tuesday morning reached to 25 people dead and 45 wounded, according to a recent report.
A suicide bomber had detonated the explosive vest amid a crowd of civilians at the civil status department in Jalawlaa district of eastern Diyala province.
The increasing numbers of suicide bombers throughout in Iraq shows the brutal and vicious policy of the occupation aiming to divide the society spreading terror and chaos.
Ten members of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed in clashes with Turkish military forces in southeastern Turkey late on Friday, security sources said on Saturday.
Six were killed in the firefight which broke out in a rural region of Siirt province after Kurdish guerrillas detonated an improvised explosive device under a minibus carrying schoolchildren, injuring two people.
Security forces said the clashes began after they launched an operation to find the group responsible for the attack.
They also said two PKK members were killed in a clash in Hakkari late on Friday and two other militants were killed in Bingol.
Nearly 50 members of the separatist PKK and six soldiers have been killed this week.
More than 40,000 have been killed since 1984 when the PKK took up arms to carve out an ethnic homeland in primarily Kurdish southeast Turkey.
Turkey considers the PKK a terrorist organisation, as does the European Union and the United States.
