At least 15 officers were killed Sunday in a suicide attack at a police training center in Mingora in Pakistan’s northwest, officials said.
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20 killed, 75 injured in Baghdad attacks
Twenty people were killed and 75 were wounded Wednesday in five explosions in Baghdad, Iraq’s Interior Ministry officials said.
6 killed, 10 wounded in Pakistan blast
Six people were killed and 10 wounded in a car bomb blast in Pakistan’s troubled northwest Monday, officials said.
At least 20 killed in Iraq blast
At least 20 people were killed and 30 wounded in a double suicide bombing Thursday in northern Iraq, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said. Two suicide bombers with explosive vests carried out the attack at a cafe in Sinjar, a town west of Mosul.
Mumbai shuts schools, cinemas over H1N1 scare
Schools, colleges and cinema halls in India’s commercial capital of Mumbai have been ordered to shut over a mounting H1N1 scare, officials said Wednesday.
Missing Florida girl’s dad held in burglary
The father of a Florida girl who has been missing for nearly six months was charged Thursday with burglary with assault, police told CNN.
3 U.S. tourists held by Iran, Kurds say
Three American tourists are believed to be in Iranian custody after they may have strayed across the border from Iraq during a mountain hike, Kurdish officials said Friday.
Two guards die in latest Spain bombing
Two civil guard agents were killed Thursday in an explosion outside a barracks on an island off the coast of Spain, Palma de Mallorca city hall officials said.
Indian state sacks 600 striking doctors
Six hundred medical residents have been fired in western India for going on strike, officials said.
Ex-boxing champ Vernon Forrest shot to death
Former boxing champion Vernon Forrest is dead after being shot multiple times in a neighborhood southwest of downtown Atlanta, officials said Sunday. An Atlanta police spokeswoman said it appeared that Forrest, 38, had been robbed, which led to a confrontation in which he was shot several times in the back