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AFP - The 2.5-million-dollar Hong Kong Open got off to a thrilling start on Thursday with Simon Dyson hitting a hole-in-one for an eagle to take an early lead.

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Reuters - A massive explosion ripped through a security compound on a busy commercial street in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and injuring more…

Reuters - Indonesia’s Mount Merapi erupted on Thursday for the second time in a week, blasting vast plumes of ash into the sky, as the death toll from the initial…

AP - BP Chief Executive Bob Dudley accused some politicians and the media on Monday of being too hasty to pin all the blame on his company for the devastating…

AP - Members of the Malinke ethnic group rioted in four towns in Guinea, killing one man and leaving Peul-owned stores in ruins as ethnic violence spread from the capital…

AP - At least 142 people have died in a cholera outbreak, and aid groups are rushing in medicine and other supplies Friday to combat Haiti’s deadliest health problem since…

AP - Super Typhoon Megi has slammed ashore along the Philippines’ northeastern coast with ferocious winds of 140 miles (225 kilometers) per hour, becoming the strongest cyclone to hit the…

AP - Tropical Storm Paula brought winds and heavy rain to the Cuban capital on Thursday, turning some low lying streets into shallow rivers, bending palm trees and sending waves…

AP - The mayor-elect of a small town near Oaxaca state’s Pacific coast has been shot to death, the latest in a string of politicial figures who have been slain…

AP - Intelligence officials say a second suspected U.S. missile strike has killed four people in a northwestern Pakistan tribal area.

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