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Kenyan Police Kill Two in Raid on Suspected Islamists

Kenyan police shot dead two suspected Islamists feared to be plotting attacks in the country's popular tourist coastal region, officials said Sunday.

Shooting broke out as police raided a house in the early hours of Sunday morning in the Majengo suburbs of Mombasa, Kenya's main port, after a tip-off from a suspect arrested on Saturday.

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Snow and Gales Hit Europe, Four Dead, Two Missing

Snow and gales hit France and Switzerland over the weekend, possibly leading to the death of a homeless man in Paris, while searches continued for a missing windsurfer and a 12-year-old British boy who vanished Saturday in the south of France while cycling in a gale.

His bicycle is reported to have been found but there are fears he was swept away by strong winds.

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Mass Evacuations, 100s of Flights Canceled as Hurricane Sandy Nears U.S.

U.S. authorities ordered coastal evacuations and airlines canceled transatlantic flights on Sunday as Hurricane Sandy bore down on the east coast after claiming 66 lives in the Caribbean.

Forecasters warned of catastrophic impacts from the mid-Atlantic to southern New England as the historic storm crashes ashore late Monday or early Tuesday, with New Jersey and New York City bracing for particularly dangerous conditions.

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3 Dead in Bomb Attack on Pakistan Sufi Shrine

A bomb explosion killed at least three people and wounded more than 20 others at a Sufi shrine in Pakistan's northwestern city of Nowshera on Sunday, police said.

The explosion took place near the main gate of Kaka Saheb shrine in the city while people were visiting it on the second day of the Muslim religious festival of Eid-al-Adha.

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Greek People Have Given Everything, Says President

Greek President Carolos Papoulias said Sunday the nation's people have given all they have to drag the country out of its crippling economic crisis, and voiced hope it would end soon.

Papoulias said recovery from the crisis, which has made the heavily indebted country dependent on international aid for two years, has to come "soon, because you cannot ask more from these people who have given everything."

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Berlusconi 'Declares War' on Italy PM

Italian ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's warning that his center-right party could withdraw its support for the government was seen by the press Sunday as a declaration of war against Prime Minister Mario Monti.

"In the next few days we will decide with the leadership of my party whether it is better to immediately withdraw our confidence or to keep it, given the upcoming election (in April)," Berlusconi said at a press conference on Saturday after he was sentenced to jail for tax fraud.

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Deadly Bombing of Nigerian Church Sparks Christian Reprisals

A suspected suicide attacker slammed a car bomb into a church during services on Sunday in the Nigerian city of Kaduna, killing two other people and sparking reprisal attacks by Christians.

Christian youths took to the streets with machetes and sticks afterward, targeting people they believed to be Muslims as anger again boiled over due to the repeated church bombings in recent months, an AFP correspondent reported.

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Satellite Images Confirm Sudan Factory Fire Caused by Air Raids

An explosion and fire at a Sudanese munitions factory this week appears to have been caused by airstrikes, a U.S.-based non-profit monitoring group said Saturday.

The Satellite Sentinel Project started by Hollywood star George Clooney said satellite imagery showed six large craters, each approximately 16 meters (52 feet) across, at the Yarmouk military factory in the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

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Japan Says Four Chinese Ships in Disputed Waters

Four Chinese maritime surveillance ships were spotted in territorial waters around disputed Tokyo-controlled islands on Sunday, Japan's coastguard said.

The ships entered Japan's 12-nautical-mile territorial waters around the East China Sea islands at around 0200 GMT and sailed out to the contiguous zone after a few hours, the coastguard said.

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5 Dead, 3 Missing in Argentina Supermarket Cave-in

Five people died and another three were missing after a supermarket partially collapsed in southern Argentina, authorities said Saturday as they released a revised death toll.

The fatal accident happened Thursday in the city of Neuquen, about 1,150 km (715 miles) southwest of Buenos Aires, when a nearby building under construction fell onto the store. Authorities were still searching Saturday for the missing, Gabriel Gastaminza, a provincial official, told Telam news agency.

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