Police say attacks on Pakistani minorities kill 44 (AP)

AP - Suicide bombings targeting religious minorities killed at least 44 people in Pakistan on Friday, sharply driving up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country already battered by massive flooding.

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Small signal, big meaning? Castro in military duds (AP)

AP - Fidel Castro dusted off his full military uniform for the first time since stepping down as president four years ago, a symbolic act in a communist country where little signals often carry enormous significance.

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Suicide bomber kills at least 43 people in Iraq (AP)

AP - A suicide bomber targeting army soldiers and members of a government-backed militia lining up to receive their paychecks killed at least 43 people and wounded 46 on Sunday, Iraqi officials said.

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Sunni group claims Iran mosque blast killing 27 (AP)

AP - A Sunni insurgent group said it carried out a double suicide bombing against a Shiite mosque in southeast Iran to avenge the execution of its leader, as Iranian authorities Friday said the death toll rose to 27 people, including members of the elite Revolutionary Guard.

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Attacks kill 11 Afghan police, district chief (AP)

AP - Militant attacks in once-calm northern Afghanistan killed at least 11 police officers and a government official whose car was hit by a remote-controlled bomb, officials said Sunday.

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Jamaica police gain hold on drug lord’s stronghold (AP)

AP - Security forces gained a tenuous hold on the slum stronghold of a powerful reputed drug lord, while Jamaica’s embattled leader promised an independent investigation into the roughly 26 civilian deaths during the operation.

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5 killed in heavy flooding across Tennessee (AP)

AP - Emergency officials in Tennessee are assessing the damage from heavy flooding that killed at least five people. And there’s more rain on the way.

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10 dead in Miss. after tornado, storms hit South (AP)

AP - Rescuers combed neighborhoods of splintered homes in Mississippi, ferrying the injured on all-terrain vehicles where roads were impassable after a devastating tornado sliced through the state and killed at least 10 people, including three children.

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Rio flood toll tops 100 as record downpours ease (AP)

AP - Flooding and mudslides from the heaviest deluge ever recorded in Rio killed at least 100 people and left many more homeless, officials said Wednesday as the rains finally began to ease.

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W.Va. mine owner accused of putting safety second (AP)

AP - The coal mine rocked by an explosion that killed at least 25 workers in the nation’s deadliest mining disaster since 1984 had been cited for 600 violations in less than a year and a half, some of them for not properly ventilating methane — the highly combustible gas suspected in the blast.

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