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AP – The number of people killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces in the wake of a deadly soccer riot rose to 11 on Saturday, according to a field doctor and a security official, as demonstrators in Cairo kept up their calls for an end to military rule and retribution for those killed in the soccer game violence.

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AP – As a storm that killed more than 650 in the southern Philippines raged outside the store where she works, Amor Limbago worriedly called home to check on her parents, but their cellphones just kept ringing and later went dead.

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AP – The Philippine Red Cross says the death toll from storm-triggered flash floods that devastated a wide swath of the country’s south has risen to 521.

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AP – Newt Gingrich acknowledged Saturday that his rivals’ attacks have taken their toll on his presidential campaign as he’s zoomed to be Mitt Romney’s chief challenger. Romney predicted that conservative voters will reject Gingrich as they learn more about the former House speaker’s lengthy Washington record.

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AP – Pounding rain from a tropical storm swelled rivers and sent walls of water crushing into two southern Philippine cities in the thick of night, killing at least 436 people, many caught in their beds, officials said Saturday.

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AP – The death toll from last week’s rare sectarian attacks on Shiite Muslims in Afghanistan has risen to at least 80, the country’s president said on Sunday.

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AP – The U.N.’s top human rights official says her office estimates the death toll in Syria’s nine-month uprising is now “much more” than 4,000.

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