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Costa Rica landslide kills 20 people (Reuters)

November 4th, 2010

Reuters - A landslide caused by heavy rain killed 20 people in Costa Rica on Thursday as President Laura Chinchilla considered declaring a national emergency to help the coffee-growing nation…

NATO says kills 30 insurgents after attack on base (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

Reuters - NATO-led troops killed more than 30 insurgents when their base was attacked in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the coalition said, with the Taliban claiming responsibility for the assault.…

Suicide bomber kills 22 in attack on Iraqi cafe (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

Reuters - A suicide bomber blew himself up in an Iraqi cafe usually packed with Shi’ite Kurds in a town northeast of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 22 people…

Indonesia’s Merapi volcano kills at least 28 (Reuters)

October 27th, 2010

A woman covers her baby as she runs from ash falling from an erupting volcano at Kaliurang village in Sleman, near Indonesia's ancient city of Yogyakarta, October 26, 2010. Mount Merapi erupted on Tuesday, prompting terrified villagers to flee and join the thousands already evacuated from its slopes, witnesses said. REUTERS/BeawihartaReuters - One of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes spewed out clouds of ash and jets of searing gas on Wednesday in an eruption that has killed at least 28 people…

Indonesia tsunami kills 113; scores more missing (AP)

October 26th, 2010

A man points at a seismic chart in Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau. A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the island's east coast Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AP - A tsunami that pounded several islands in western Indonesia killed at least 113 people and scores more are missing.


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Indonesia tsunami kills 23, leaves scores missing (AP)

October 26th, 2010

A man points at a seismic chart in Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau. A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the island's east coast Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AP - A powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that pounded villages on remote islands off western Indonesia, killing at least 23 people and leaving more than 160 others missing, witnesses…

Witness: Attack at Mexico rehab center kills 13 (AP)

October 25th, 2010

Two soldiers watch 134 tonnes of marijuana burning on October 20, in the border town of Tijuana, Mexico. In the latest violence, thirteen retirees were shot and killed in an execution-style massacre at a Mexican drug rehabilitation center near the border city of Tijuana, a police official told AFP.(AFP/File/Francisco Vega)AP - A client at a drug rehab center in the Mexican border city of Tijuana says a gang of armed men gunned down 13 recovering addicts there.


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Bomb kills 5 people at Sufi shrine in Pakistan (AP)

October 25th, 2010

Map locating Pakpattan in Pakistan where at several people have been killed in a bomb blast after dawn prayers at a Sufi shrine.(AFP Graphic)AP - A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded at the gate of a famous Sufi shrine in central Pakistan during morning prayers Monday, killing at least five people, said…

Gunbattle in northern Mexico kills 3 bystanders (AP)

October 25th, 2010

Mexican federal police officers stand outside a home after the exterior gate was covered with a plastic tarp in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Friday Oct. 22, 2010. At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on this house during a party in Ciudad Juarez, the second such massacre in less than a week in the violent border city. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)AP - Three bystanders died in the crossfire of a shootout between gunmen, police and soldiers in northern Mexico on Sunday.


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NATO: Afghanistan bomb attack kills service member (AP)

October 24th, 2010

This photograph taken with the help of a nightvision scope shows foreign soldiers preparing to take part in a patrol in Zari District of Kandahar province on October 22. A soldier with NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed Sunday in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - NATO says in a statement that one of its service members has been killed by a bomb in southern Afghanistan.


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