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Back-to-back explosions tore through tents housing Shiite pilgrims in southern Iraq on Thursday, the deadliest in a wave of bombings that killed at least 43 people nationwide, officials said.
Back-to-back explosions tore through tents housing Shiite pilgrims in southern Iraq Thursday in the deadliest of a wave of bombings that killed at least 43 people nationwide, officials said.
Soldiers manning a checkpoint in northern Nigeria fatally shot two ranking members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for hundreds of killings this year alone, a military official said Monday.

Islamist militants detonated a truck bomb Tuesday in front of the Education Ministry in Somalia's capital, where students and their parents were registering for scholarships offered by the Turkish government.
The truck blew up at a security checkpoint at the entrance to the Ministry of Education, police officer Ali Hussein said.