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| Strong Turkey quake kills 41
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| ELAZIG, Turkey — Rescuers struggled to dig survivors from under the rubble after a strong quake struck eastern Turkey early Monday, killing at least 41 people and injuring dozens more, officials said.
The quake, 6.0 on the Richter scale, struck at 04:32 am (0232 GMT) at a depth of five kilometres, with an epicentre near the Karakocan town in Elazig province, the Istanbul-based Kandilli observatory said on its web site.
The 39 known dead perished in five villages located near the epicentre of the tremor, Governor Muammer Erol told CNN Turk television, with rescuers trying to save at least four people trapped under the debris in one village.
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| KUNDUZ: Scores of Hizb-e-Islami militants, including 11 commanders and 68 fighters, defected on Sunday and joined the Afghan government as a clash between the group and the Taliban left 79 people dead, police said.
Fighting between the Taliban and Hizb-e-Islami erupted early on Saturday in Baghlan province, said provincial police chief Muhammad Kabir Andarabi.
Citing local sources in the northern region, police officials said the battles continued on Sunday in the Jangal Bagh area. The Afghan Interior Ministry on Saturday confirmed the clashes but was not able to give casualty figures.
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| BAGHDAD: Explosions killed 38 people as Iraqis voted on Sunday in an election that Sunni militants have vowed to disrupt, in one of many challenges to efforts to stabilise Iraq before US troops leave.
Scores of mortar rounds, rockets and roadside bombs exploded near polling stations in Baghdad, and some elsewhere, in a coordinated campaign to wreck the voting for Iraq's second full-term parliament since the 2003 US-led invasion.
Iraq's political course will be decisive for President Barack Obama's plans to halve US troop levels over the next five months and withdraw entirely by end-2011. It will also be watched by oil companies planning to invest billions in Iraq.
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| ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – (UPDATE 3) Seven suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits were killed in an encounter with government soldiers on Laminusa Island in Siasi, Sulu on Sunday dawn.
Lieutenant General Ben Dolorfino, chief of the military’s Western Mindanao Command, said members of the Marine Battalion Landing Team 6 were on their way to raid the lair of an Abu Sayyaf faction led by Abu Benhur alias Boy Tondo, who has active ties to Jemaah Islamiyah when they clashed with a group of bandits in the village of Pookan at around 3:45 a.m.
Dolorfino said a marine soldier was injured in the encounter while two of the seven Abu Sayyaf bandits killed were women.
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| The latest unrest in Nigeria's central Plateau state comes at a difficult time, with acting leader Goodluck Jonathan trying to assert his authority while ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua remains too sick to govern the oil-producing nation.
Villagers in Dogo Nahawa, just south of the state capital Jos, said Hausa-Fulani herders from surrounding hills attacked at about 3 a.m. (10 p.m. EST), shooting into the air before cutting those who came out of their homes with machetes.
A Red Cross official said at least two other nearby communities were also targeted, in an area close to where sectarian clashes killed hundreds of people in January, but that it was too early to give an overall death toll.
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