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Reuters - The death toll from a fire that swept through a central Shanghai apartment block Monday has risen to 53, the Xinhua news agency reported.

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Reuters - The NATO-led force in Afghanistan on Monday raised the death toll from a weekend clash with insurgents in the volatile east to five, making it the deadliest attack…

Reuters - The death of a North Korean military official and the naming of leader-in-waiting Kim Jong-un to the funeral preparation committee was jumped on by South Korean media on…

Reuters - Earthquake-hit Haiti escaped a fresh disaster threatened by Hurricane Tomas, but the storm caused flooding that killed eight people and increased the contagion threat from a deadly cholera…

AP - Parts of Pakistan’s largest city shut down Wednesday after an attack on a scrapyard pushed to 51 the number of people killed in four days — a spasm…

AP - Searchers scoured muddy rivers and debris-clogged gullies for more victims of Tropical Storm Nicole on Thursday as the death toll in Jamaica from floods and mudslides rose to…

AP - Oil prices rose above $75 a barrel Wednesday, boosted by a weaker dollar. But gains were limited by a report showing an unexpected rise in U.S. supplies last…

AP - Today, it’s a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt’s wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving…

AP - Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised…

AP - The death toll from a Pakistani Taliban suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession rose from 43 to 65 overnight as critically wounded people died in hospitals, police…