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Killer landslide hits east Cairo shanty town

CAIRO - Thirty-one people were killed and 23 injured when a massive rockslide hit a crowded Cairo shanty town on Saturday, sending rocks and boulders crashing down on dozens of houses, security and medical sources said. Tumbling rocks destroyed many buildings in the Manshiyet Nasser shanty town in eastern Cairo near the Moqattam plateau, its close-packed houses and narrow alleys huddled at the foot of cliffs beside a highway.

Ferocious Hurricane Ike threatens Cuba and Gulf

HAVANA - Hurricane Ike charged toward Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico as a ferocious Category 4 storm on Saturday, while Tropical Storm Hanna drenched the U.S. Atlantic coast after barrelling ashore in the Carolinas. Ike's top sustained winds reached 135 miles per hour , making it an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 on the five-step Saffir Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Russia accuses West of provocation

MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused the United States on Saturday of provoking Moscow by using warships to deliver relief aid to its ally Georgia, with which Russia fought a brief war last month. "I wonder how they would feel if we now dispatched humanitarian assistance to the Caribbean, suffering from a hurricane, using our navy," Medvedev said, adding that a whole U.S. fleet had been dispatched to deliver the aid.

Zardari wins Pakistan election

ISLAMABAD - Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept to victory in a presidential election on Saturday. Underscoring the problems he faces, a suicide car bomber killed at least 30 people in an attack on a police post in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

Rice seeks closer Maghreb counter-terror links

ALGIERS - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pushed for closer north African counter-terrorism cooperation on Saturday on a tour of an oil-rich region periodically hit by violence blamed on al Qaeda. Rice, visiting Algeria and Tunisia a day after holding a historic meeting with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli, told reporters she had been saddened by recent attacks in regional giant Algeria that killed scores of people.

Voting ends in Angolan election

LUANDA - Angolans voted for an unscheduled second day on Saturday in a parliamentary election which opposition parties said was illegitimate and should be held again. The African nation's electoral commission said voting, hit by widespread delays and confusion at polling stations on Friday, had ended after high turnout on the second day.

Sudanese forces attack Darfur rebel bases-insurgents

KHARTOUM - Sudanese forces launched ground and air attacks on at least three rebel positions in North Darfur on Saturday, killing an unknown number of people, insurgent groups said. Leaders from three rebel groups said government troops, backed by helicopters, Antonov planes and militias riding horses and camels, attacked their bases in Disa and Birmaza, close to a key transport route.

Two NATO soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan

KABUL - Two soldiers of the NATO-led force were killed in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, the alliance said. It did not give the nationalities of the soldiers or the circumstances in which they died. Foreign troop casualties have mounted in Afghanistan this summer with 43 killed in August, a higher combat toll than in any other month since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.

China opens Games and pledges disabled rights

BEIJING - Beijing opened the Paralympic Games in spectacular fashion on Saturday, an event China's leaders hope will show them in a compassionate light. The crowd roared its approval in the main Bird's Nest stadium at the lavish performance put on to welcome the Games, overseen by renowned Chinese film director Zhang Yimou, which featured the incorporation of sign language into dance.

Nuclear nations approve disputed India trade waiver

VIENNA - Forty-five nations approved a U.S. proposal on Saturday to lift a global ban on nuclear trade with India in a breakthrough towards sealing a controversial U.S.-Indian atomic energy deal. One hurdle remained before the U.S.-India deal can take force -- ratification by the U.S. Congress. It must act before adjourning in late September for elections or the deal could be left to an uncertain fate under a new U.S. administration.

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