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This handout photo provided by Nepal Prime Minister's Office shows an earthquake-affected area in northwestern Nepal, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. Helicopters and ground troops rushed to help people hurt in a strong earthquake that shook northwestern Nepal districts just before midnight Friday, killing more than 100 people and injuring dozens dozens more, officials said Saturday. (Nepal Prime Minister's Office via AP)

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Quake shakes northwest Nepal, killing at least 128 and injuring dozens. Officials fear toll to rise
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press
Fri,11/03/23-2:01PM , 83 Reads
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Helicopters and ground troops rushed to help people hurt in a strong earthquake that shook districts in northwestern Nepal just before midnight Friday, killing at least 128 people and injuring dozens more, officials said Saturday.
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A man sits on the rubble as others wander among debris of buildings that were targeted by Israeli airstrikes in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip on Nov. 1, 2023. Weeks after ordering northern Gaza's 1.1 million inhabitants to evacuate south, the Israeli army is intensifying its bombing of the area that stretches to the wetlands of Wadi Gaza. Israeli soldiers are also battling Hamas militants just north of Gaza City. It's the start of what officials expect to be a long and bloody invasion that has already pinned down hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who remain in the north. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled, File)

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Trapped in hell: Palestinian civilians try to survive in northern Gaza, focus of Israel's offensive
By ISABEL DEBRE, KAREEM CHEHAYEB AND WAFAA SHURAFA - Associated Press
Fri,11/03/23-9:48AM , 60 Reads
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — When Israeli warplanes bombed the crowded Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza this week, neonatal nurse Hudaa Ali Eldaor felt the vibration in her ward at the nearby Kamal Adwan Hospit
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AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports on Europe-Storms

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Storm Ciarán brings record rainfall to Italy with at least 6 killed. European death toll rises to 14
By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press
Fri,11/03/23-3:07AM , 81 Reads
MILAN (AP) — Record-breaking rain produced floods in a vast swath of Italy's Tuscany region as Storm Ciarán pushed into the country overnight, trapping residents in their homes, inundating hospitals and overturning cars.
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Iran puts the death toll from a fire at a drug rehabilitation center at 32
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fri,11/03/23-2:25AM , 41 Reads
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A fire at a private drug rehabilitation center in northern Iran killed 32 people on Friday, according to Iranian state media, five more than reported earlier.

State TV said 16 other people were injured and taken to hospitals in Langroud, a city about 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of the capital, Tehran.
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