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Syrian activists claim gunmen kill dozens in Homs
Syrian activists said Monday that pro-government gunmen have killed at least 16 people – including children – in a rebel stronghold recaptured by the government in the embattled central city of Homs.
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Robbers kill 9 in Baghdad jewelry heists
Iraqi police and health officials say robbers have killed nine people and wounded 14 others in a jewelry heist in eastern Baghdad.
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Western forces kill 16 civilians in Afghanistan: Kabul government
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Western forces shot dead 16 civilians including nine children in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, Afghan officials said, in a rampage that witnesses said was carried out by American soldiers who were laughing and appeared drunk. One Afghan father who said his children were killed in the shooting spree accused soldiers of later burning the bodies. Witnesses told Reuters they saw a group of U.S. soldiers arrive at their village in Kandahar’s Panjwayi district at around 2 am, enter homes and open fire. The incident, one of the worst of its kind since the …
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Reprisals kill 10 after church bombed in Nigeria’s Jos
JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) – Christian youths killed at least 10 people in reprisal attacks after a suspected suicide bomber hit a Catholic church in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, killing three people, authorities said. “The situation is bad,” health commissioner for Jos Sati Dakwat told Reuters. “Several were killed in the reprisal attacks, more than 10.” A Reuters reporter at the scene of the church bombing was unable to gain access, as the police had cordoned off the area around Finber’s Catholic Church in the Rayfield suburb of Jos. …
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Violent storms kill 31, death toll could rise (AP)
AP – A string of violent storms scratched away small towns in Indiana and cut off rural communities in Kentucky as an early-season tornado outbreak killed more than 30 people, and the death toll rose as daylight broke on Saturday’s search for survivors.
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Violent storms kill 29, death toll could rise (AP)
AP – A string of violent storms scratched away small towns in Indiana and cut off rural communities in Kentucky as an early-season tornado outbreak killed nearly 30 people, and authorities feared the already ugly death toll would rise as daylight broke on Saturday’s search for survivors.
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Tornadoes kill at least 28 across 3 states
Powerful storms leveled small towns in southern Indiana, transforming entire blocks of homes into piles of debris, tossing school buses into a home and a restaurant and causing destruction so severe it was difficult to tell what was once there. As night fell, dazed residents shuffled through town, some looking for relatives, while rescue workers searched the rubble for survivors. Without power, the only light in town came from cars that crawled down the streets.
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