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BAQUBA, Iraq: Eight people were killed and 20 wounded on Thursday when a female suicide bomber blew herself up as a Sahwa (Awakening) patrol passed in Baquba in eastern Iraq, police and medical sources said. The attack was in the central New Baquba neighborhood, and targeted a Sahwa patrol of Iraqi forces-former insurgents recruited to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq and paid by the US military.
-- AFP
XINING: The death toll from the collapse of a mosque in northwest China rose to eight on Friday, and rescuers warned it could continue to climb as they searched the rubble. One of the four severely injured people taken to hospital after the collapse on Thursday died after failing to respond to treatment, and one of the dead was a child, said an official with the Qinghai provincial emergency rescue and fire brigade. Rescuers had found 31 injured and dead at the mosque, which was under construction in Taer Town of Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County. The mosque collapsed at about 5:40 p.m. on Thursday.
-- Xinhua
SEOUL: At least six people were killed while another 11 people were injured in a fire at a building in South Korea's Yongin City on Friday, police said. The fire took place at about 1:20 a.m. local time (1650 GMT ) on the ninth floor of the 10-story building in Yongin City, 40 km south of Seoul, police said. Firefighters extinguished the fire in about 40 minutes, but they said they could not get to all victims due to a maze of corridors, with 63 rooms on the floor of 559.9 square meters, police said.
-- Xinhua
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Pakistani Taliban militants have released eight of around two dozen government officials kidnapped more than two weeks ago in a restive northwestern region, a tribal elder said Friday. The officials were abducted on July 9 in retaliation for the arrest of seven militants in troubled Hangu district near the Afghan border. The army wrapped up a week-long anti-extremist operation in Hangu this week. Those released belong to the police, banking, telephone and electricity supply departments.
-- AFP
GHAZNI, Afghanistan: International forces killed 40 Taliban militants in an air strike during an operation to retake a district captured by the Islamist rebels, local Afghan officials said Friday. Afghan and NATO-led ground forces supported by international military air support launched an offensive on Wednesday to retake Ajristan, 200 kilometers southwest of Kabul, after rebels stormed in Monday. International forces could not immediately confirm the air strike.
-- AFP
KINSHASA: At least 42 passengers drowned and more than 100 are missing after their boat sank on the river Oubangui in the Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials and a radio report said Friday. Rescue workers had saved 22 passengers, but recovered 42 bodies from the river, which runs along DRCongo's northern border with the Central African Republic, Felix Ibula, of the authorities in nearby Gbadolite, told Agence
France-Presse.
-- AFP
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