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Pakistan Quake Death Toll Rises to 376

The death toll from a strong quake that hit southwest Pakistan last week rose to 376 on Tuesday as relief work in the shattered area continued, the national disaster management agency said.

The deadly 7.7-magnitude quake shook the province of Baluchistan on September 24, making more than 100,000 people homeless. A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the area again on Saturday, killing at least 22 people.

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Guinea Election Fraud Complaint 'Must Wait for Final Tally'

Guinea's electoral commission said on Tuesday it would not consider accusations of electoral fraud by the country's main opposition until a final tally of votes cast on September 28 was finished.

"If they (the opposition parties) have results they want to contest, we don't know anything about it," said the commission's top lawyer, Amadou Kebe.

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Amnesty Raps Roma Evictions

Amnesty International on Tuesday rapped Romanian authorities for evicting around 100 Roma from a town near the Black Sea coast without providing them with alternative housing.

The local mayor sent in bulldozers on Friday to raze the Roma homes and shelters set up in the town of Eforie Sud, a health mediator for the Roma community told Agence France Presse.

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UNAMID: Darfur Peacekeeper Dies of Wounds after July Ambush

An African police adviser with the international peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region has died from wounds suffered in an ambush three months ago, the mission said on Tuesday.

The death of the Sierra Leonean brings to eight the number of peacekeepers killed in the July 13 attack north of the South Darfur state capital Nyala.

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Turkey Premier Seeks to Repair Image with Reforms, Opposition Criticizes Efforts

Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has unveiled sweeping reforms in a bid to repair his image, bruised by mass protests and a stalled peace process with Kurdish rebels, analysts said Tuesday.

But Erdogan failed to appease his critics who said the long-awaited reform package did not go far enough and was merely a bid to shore up support ahead of elections next year.

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Berlusconi Pushes to Topple Italy Govt despite Dissent

Italy's Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday pressed ahead with plans to topple Prime Minister Enrico Letta but looked increasingly isolated as top aides from his party said they would support the government.

"Even though I understand the risks that I am taking on, I have decided to put an end to the Letta government," Berlusconi said in an emotional letter sent to the Catholic weekly magazine Tempi.

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Cambodia Opposition Seeks Foreign Support in Poll Row

Cambodia's opposition leader is touring Southeast Asia to appeal for the intervention of neighboring countries in a political stalemate triggered by disputed elections, his party said Tuesday.

Sam Rainsy, whose opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) is boycotting parliament over the controversial July polls, left on Monday evening for countries including Singapore and the Philippines.

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Bosnia First post-War Census Reopens Old Wounds

Bosnia on Tuesday began a high-stakes census expected to reveal exactly how the 1992-95 war changed the country's ethnic makeup.

"For the first time in 22 years we will get a complete image of Bosnia-Hercegovina's population," the head of the country's statistics bureau Zdenko Milinovic told Agence France Presse.

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Mumbai Police Arrest 3 Officials over Cuilding Collapse

Indian police on Tuesday arrested three officials working for the Mumbai city government over the collapse of an apartment block last week that killed 60 people, a spokesman said.

The accident happened early on Friday while more than 90 people were inside the building owned by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM). It was the latest in a string of collapses to hit the financial capital.

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Britain's Miliband in Row with Tabloid over Dad

The leader of Britain's main opposition party, Ed Miliband, was locked in a bitter war of words with a tabloid newspaper on Tuesday after it branded his late father "the man who hated Britain".

The Labor Party leader hit back at an article in the right-leaning Daily Mail about his Marxist theorist father Ralph. The tabloid claimed its revelations would "disturb everyone who loves this country".

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