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Iraqi authorities say a number of car bombs have exploded in predominantly Shi'ite districts of Baghdad, killing about 30 people and wounding around 100 others.

President Abdrabu Mansour Hadi of Yemen.

Pakistani police say at least 80 people have been killed and well over 100 wounded in a bombing targeting Shi'ites in southwestern Pakistan.

Recent Israeli bombings of at least two sites inside sovereign Syrian territory are a prelude to an ongoing Israeli plan to attack Syrian facilities suspected of providing advanced weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to both U.S. and Israeli intelligence sources.

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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano expressed deep regret about the announcement that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has conducted a third test of a nuclear weapon.

The Lebanese have been bitterly divided over the civil war in Syria since it started two years ago, but now they worry that the fighting next door will spread into their own country, upsetting its fragile ethnic and religious balance.

The chief United Nations nuclear inspector has returned to Vienna from Iran with no new agreement on investigating allegations that the country is working to develop nuclear weapons.