LONDON - Tobacco use kills at least 5 million people every year, a figure that could rise if countries don't take stronger measures to combat smoking, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. In a new report on tobacco use and control, the U.N.
BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb flattened a court building and an explosives-rigged ambulance blew down walls like dominos near the Finance Ministry during a wave of coordinated attacks Tuesday that targeted high-profile symbols of Iraqi authority. At
MOSCOW - The fire chief of a Russian city where a nightclub blaze killed 118 revelers was fired Tuesday and authorities said fire records for the club appear to have been falsified. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, visited the site Tuesday
MULTAN, Pakistan, December 8 – A bomb attack on a Pakistani security agency office in the south-eastern city of Multan on Tuesday killed nine people, security officials said. Islamist militants have set off numerous bombs in Pakistan in recent month
MULTAN, Pakistan - A bomb attack on a Pakistani security agency office in the southeastern city of Multan on Tuesday killed nine people, security officials said. Islamist militants have set off numerous bombs in Pakistan in recent months, most in t
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan - A missile strike from a US drone aircraft killed three suspected militants in Pakistan's lawless northwest tribal belt early Tuesday, security and intelligence officials said. The attack targeted a car in Aspalga village, abou
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Four people were killed and 12 were wounded in an accidental blast at a building in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday, officials said. It was a low intensity explosion caused by a chemical reaction, local b
PERM, Russia - Panicked clubgoers crushed each other to death in a popular Russian nightspot as they tried to flee a fast-moving fire that one eyewitness told The Associated Press was started by pyrotechnic fountains set up on the stage. Officials s
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