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• China: Typhoon kills 3, over 100 000 evacuated
  2008-09-25 03:15:32 - (SomaliNet) China’s state media said a powerful typhoon ploughed into a densely populated area of south China on Wednesday, killing three people and triggering a \"once-in-a-century storm tide\" in sev
  
• Myanmar: 4 injured in suspected bomb blast
  2008-09-25 03:10:41 - (SomaliNet) A suspected bomb blast outside Yangon’s City Hall in military-ruled Myanmar on Thursday injured at least four people, an official said. The incident occurs mid tight security to mark
  
• Philippines: Typhoon kills 3 in northern Philippines, heads to Hong Kong
  2008-09-23 06:44:20 - (SomaliNet) After killing three people in the northern Philippines, a typhoon was gathering strength in the South China Sea on Tuesday and heading towards Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Observatory ra
  
• Turkey: Doctors investigating death of 13 newborn babies at hospital
  2008-09-23 06:35:25 - (SomaliNet) Turkish officials said on Monday that a team of doctors is investigating the weekend deaths of 13 newborn babies at a hospital in western Turkey. In the second such incident in Turkey
  
• Myanmar: Military gov’t to release over 9 000 prisoners to vote in 2010 polls
  2008-09-23 06:31:00 - (SomaliNet) In what is said is intended to allow the detainees vote in 2010 elections, Myanmar\'s/ Burma\'s military government announced in state media on Tuesday that it would release more than 9 000
  
• UK: Police investigating bomb attack at Iranian Embassy
  2008-09-23 06:26:30 - (SomaliNet) The Scotland Yard said on Tuesday that British police are investigating a suspected petrol bomb attack at the Iranian Embassy in London,. Scotland Yard said the attack on Monday spar
  
• U.S Elections: McCain attacks Bush on Wall Street meltdown, debt crisis
  2008-09-23 06:23:01 - (SomaliNet) Saying Bush had \"failed\" to prevent conditions which led to the Wall Street meltdown and debt crisis, White House candidate John McCain on Sunday criticised his fellow Republican, Presiden
  
• China: Gas kills 30 at coal mine in Henan Province
  2008-09-22 03:53:47 - (SomaliNet)An \"outburst\" of gas at a coal mine in central China\'s Henan Province killed at least 31 people early on Sunday, Xinhua news agency said. Xinhua reported that nine others were missing
  
• China: Gas kills 30 at coal mine in Henan Province
  2008-09-22 03:38:45 - (SomaliNet) Nigeria: The wives of the most married man in Nigeria have staged a protest demanding the release of their husband who is being detained for unlawful marriages and contempt of Islamic rel
  
• Spain: 7 injured as car bomb explodes outside police station
  2008-09-22 01:53:44 - (SomaliNet) A car bomb exploded outside a police station in town of Ondarroa in the Basque Country in northern Spain slightly injuring seven people on Sunday, police said. A spokesman for the
  

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