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Pakistan flooding death toll reaches 800
The death toll from flooding in Pakistan has risen to at least 800, the information minister of a northern province said Saturday.

Series of blasts in China kill 5
A blast at a tax office that left four dead and 19 injured in central China was a deliberate attack, state media reported Saturday.

Pakistani airliner 'black box' found
The data recorders for the plane that crashed and killed 152 people in Pakistan has been found, a government official said Saturday.

U.S. suffers worst month in Afghanistan
Three U.S. soldiers were killed in two separate blasts in southern Afghanistan, making July the deadliest month for American forces since the war started nine years ago.

Chinese floods raise contamination fears
Floods in northeast China's Jilin Province have killed 29 people, left seven missing, cut utility services and raised fears of tainted water, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported Friday, citing provincial authorities.

5 former Taliban members off U.N. sanctions list
Two former Taliban envoys, one to the United Nations and the other to Pakistan, are among five people who've been removed from a U.N. Security Council sanctions list, the council said.

13 civilians killed in Afghanistan
Insurgents wielding guns and bombs killed 13 civilians and wounded four others in Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Friday.

Muslim clerics star on TV reality show
It may look like "American Idol" or "The X Factor", but the contestants aren't vying for money or a record deal.

'Oldest man' may have been dead for decades
Police have found the mummified body of a man believed to have been Tokyo's oldest man, who may have in fact died some 30 yeas ago, officials at the city's Adachi Ward said.

Bomb blast kills four soldiers in India
A bomb blast killed four soldiers and injured 41 others in northeastern India on Friday morning, authorities said.