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Rescuers dig 26 bodies from Mexican bus mudslide
ELOXOCHITLAN - Mexican rescuers dug out the bodies of 26 people and searched for dozens more crushed when part of a rain-soaked mountain collapsed on a bus carrying up to 60 passengers.
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US marines face new prove over eight Iraq deaths
SAN DIEGO - Up to 10 US Marines are under investigation for the deaths of eight Iraqi prisoners during the November 2004 battle for Fallujah, marking the third war crimes probe of Marines at California's Camp Pendleton, a government spokesman has said.
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Gunmen kidnap 3-year-old UK girl in Nigeria
PORT HARCOURT - Gunmen kidnapped a three-year-old British girl in the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt while she was on her way to school, police said.
A police spokeswoman said the child was snatched from the car in which she was being driven as it was stuck in traffic. The British Foreign Office confirmed the abduction.
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Climate change contributing to Pacific health problems
SAMOA - A recent study by the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that climate change directly or indirectly contributes to about 77 000 deaths annually in Asia and the Pacific.
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Pakistan rejects radical clerics surrender terms
ISLAMABAD - A cleric holed up in a Pakistani mosque said on Friday he and hundreds of followers were willing to surrender, but set conditions authorities rejected after three days of violence in which 19 people have died.
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Father and daughter killed, mother injured, in Sydney stabbing
SYDNEY - A woman is under police guard in hospital today after a triple stabbing in Sydney's south-west, which killed a father and daughter and wounded the girl's mother.
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