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QUETTA, Pakistan - A suicide bomber struck a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing up to 43 people in the second major attack this week, piling pressure on a government struggling with a flood crisis.
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JOHANNESBURG - Striking South African state workers held small-scale protests on Friday as union and government negotiators prepared for bargaining next week aimed at ending the three-week walkout by about 1.3 million.
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LONDON - BP Plc said the cost of dealing with its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had risen to $8 billion as the oil giant prepared to release the findings of an internal probe into the causes of the disaster.
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BEIJING - North Korea is angling for foreign investment with a new government body set up to attract money into the isolated country, but little is likely to be forthcoming, a regular visitor to Pyongyang said on Friday.
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PARIS - France's trade union bosses said on Friday that the country's labour minister, increasingly plagued by an influence-peddling scandal, was no longer fit to defend a controversial reform of France's pension system.
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WASHINGTON - U.S. employment fell for a third straight month in August, but the decline was far less than expected and private payrolls growth surprised on the upside, easing pressure on the Federal Reserve to prop up growth.
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TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged Palestinians to keep up their armed struggle against Israel a day after Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to continue talks on a U.S.-backed peace deal.
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MANTEO - Hurricane Earl battered North Carolina's coast with rain, winds and waves on Friday and swirled up the U.S. eastern seaboard toward New England and Canada as a weakened but still dangerous storm.
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MILAN - Russia's plan to extend its grain export ban destabilises markets but does not bring closer a repeat of the 2007/2008 food crisis, a senior UN economist said on Friday after seven people died in food riots in Mozambique.
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KABUL - Concerns over security and transparency in Afghanistan's parliamentary election grew on Friday after another candidate was attacked and a German observer sought to temper expectations of the poll.
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