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Gunmen storm Philippine city jail; 3 killed
About a dozen gunmen armed with grenades and bombs stormed a southern Philippine jail in an attempt to spring a detained comrade, but were repulsed by police in a chaotic night attack that killed three people, officials said Monday.Fifteen people were wounded, most of them civilians caught in the firefight outside Kidapawan's city hall compound and along a key commercial road. Police blamed former

400 Iran exiles reluctantly move to new Iraq home

Lugging clothes, tables and whatever else they were allowed to bring, roughly 400 members of an Iranian exile group reluctantly moved Saturday from their camp in northwestern Iraq to a deserted

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Haiti govt says president attacked while walking

-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian President Michel Martelly was attacked as he walked in a Carnival procession in downtown Port-au-Prince, but he escaped unharmed, the National Palace said

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Horror, mercy marked Honduras prison fire

Two of the bodies were found facing one another in a large sink, their remains completely blackened. Others were squished together in the prison bathroom where they had sought refuge from the

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Two brothers rescued after three months at sea
, Feb 18 (IANS/EFE) Two brothers, who said they were fishermen and had been adrift on the open sea for three months, were rescued near the Mexican island of Cozumel, a port official said.

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Survivor rage grows in deadly Honduran prison fire

Honduras: As workers cleaned up the rubble of the century's deadliest prison fire, a collective rage built among relatives who gathered at the morgue and said the official explanation of a mattress

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