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AFP - Senior MPs from north and south Sudan are heading for Canada this weekend to learn from Quebec’s independence referendums, officials said Friday, as the African state prepares to vote on southern secession.

AP - Germany held a memorial service Saturday for the victims of the Love Parade techno music festival, where 21 people were crushed to death and 500 injured in a tunnel that was the only entrance to the event.

AP - Rescuers trying to reach thousands of Pakistani flood victims were hampered by deluged roads and damaged bridges Saturday, while fears of disease rose as some evacuees showed signs of diarrhea, fever and other illnesses.

AP - A diplomatic spat with implications for international counterterrorism escalated Saturday, when Pakistan’s spy chief canceled a visit to London after the British leader suggested that Pakistan exports terrorism.

AP - A magnitude 5.8 earthquake jolted southeastern Iran on Saturday, the country’s state television reported. There was no word on casualties or damage.

AP - About 30 people have died in the last three days alone as Russia’s massive forest fires have wiped out villages and vast areas of woodland, state television reported Saturday. Officials insist some of the worst blazes are under control.

AP - One of the world’s most powerful drug cartels took a major hit when soldiers killed a top kingpin in a gunbattle, and his death will likely will mean more violence as factions fight for the cocaine and methamphetamine empire that he left behind.

AP - In a summer of suffering, America’s military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in the grinding conflict. All signs point to more bloodshed in the months ahead, straining the already shaky international support for the war.

AP - Fidel Castro accused U.S. authorities of torturing a convicted Cuban spy, telling a meeting of communist youths that the agent had been placed in solitary confinement in California.

AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday said he has deployed troops and air units in case of a conflict with neighboring Colombia.