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Bali bombing suspect confirmed dead in police raid (AP)

March 10th, 2010

Paramedics carry the body of a suspected militant killed in a police raid in Pamulang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Anti-terror police hunting a mastermind of Indonesia's worst terror attack killed three suspects on Tuesday, police said. Police were trying to determine whether one of those killed was the alleged terrorist Dulmatin. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)AP - A top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the deadliest terrorist attack in Indonesia’s history has been killed in a shootout with police at an Internet cafe, the…

Earthquake hits eastern Turkey; at least 57 dead (AP)

March 8th, 2010

Rescue workers and people remove rubble from a destroyed house in Okcular village in the eastern province of Elazig, Turkey, Monday, March 8, 2010, hours after a strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey early Monday. The temblor struck six villages in Elazig province, toppling stone or mud-brick homes and minarets of mosques. (AP Photo/ Omer Fansa, Anatolia)AP - A strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 57 people and knocking down houses in at least six small villages, an…

Official: 57 dead in earthquake in eastern Turkey (AP)

March 8th, 2010

A man points at a seismic chart indicating the registered tremors of a powerful earthquake. At least 39 people have been killed in an earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale that struck the eastern Turkish province of Elazig, the local governor has said.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AP - An official says the death toll in the strong earthquake that hit eastern Turkey has reached 57.


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Earthquake hits eastern Turkey; at least 41 dead (AP)

March 8th, 2010

A man points at a seismic chart indicating the registered tremors of a powerful earthquake. At least 39 people have been killed in an earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale that struck the eastern Turkish province of Elazig, the local governor has said.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AP - A strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey on Monday, killing at least 41 people and knocking down houses in at least six small…

Blast hits police building in Pakistan, 11 dead (AP)

March 8th, 2010

A Pakistani woman weeps at the site of a bomb blast in Lahore in December, 2009. A powerful car bomb struck a law enforcement building used to interrogate suspected militants in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, killing 11 people and wounding more than 60.(AFP/File/Arif Ali)AP - A suicide car bomber struck a building where police interrogate high-value suspects in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 61…

Blast hits gov’t building in east Pakistan, 5 dead (AP)

March 8th, 2010

Pakistani policemen search vehicles at a check point in Lahore. A powerful car bomb attack in Pakistan's second city has killed at least five people, a senior police official said.(AFP/File/Arif Ali)AP - An apparent suicide car bomber struck a building housing a government investigative agency Monday in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, killing at least five people, police and hospitals…

Nigeria: More than 200 dead in religious violence (AP)

March 7th, 2010

Workers close mass graves in Jos where dozens of people killed during violent religious clashes have been buried, January 2010. A new outburst of sectarian violence in a flashpoint region of Nigeria left at least 100 people dead, mainly women and children, as machete-wielding gangs burned down villages, officials said Sunday.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AP - Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people overnight Sunday as religious violence flared anew between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria, witnesses said. Hundreds of people…

Reporter: More than 200 dead in Nigeria violence (AP)

March 7th, 2010

AP - More than 200 bodies — many of them women and children — lay in the streets of a central Nigerian town after a renewed spate of Christian-Muslim violence,…

India: 63 dead, dozens injured in temple stampede (AP)

March 4th, 2010

AP - A senior local government official says that the death toll in a stampede at a temple in north India has risen to 63.

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Ugandans use hand tools to dig out mud; 86 dead (AP)

March 3rd, 2010

In this photo made from TV people are seen in hospital in the Bududa region of Uganda,  Tuesday, March 2, 2010,  following heavy rains which triggered landslides.   Rivers of mud swamped houses, stores and at least one school after heavy rains in this Central African country, killing at least 70 people with some 250 still missing, officials and survivors said Tuesday. Rains that began Monday evening continued through the night, triggering landslides in the Bududa region, 170 miles (275 kilometers) east of Kampala. Uganda's minister of state for disaster preparedness said the army would join the rescue effort. (AP Photo / APTN)AP - It was mid-afternoon and had been raining buckets when shopkeeper Michael Nabude looked up and saw a patch of mud slide down a mountain. Fearing a landslide, he…