Syrian tanks stormed the town of Bdama near the border with Turkey Saturday, wreaking destruction, according to witnesses. Residents of the border region also continue to flee to neighboring Turkey, which is housing them in several refugee camps.
Witnesses say that Syrian government forces, backed by tanks, pushed into the town of Bdama near the Turkish border Saturday, after shelling the mostly deserted town for several hours. Government forces captured larger towns in the area in the last week.
Other witnesses told Arab satellite channels that pro goverment militia have burned crops, wrecked vehicles and ransacked homes.
A man from the nearby village of Khirbet al-Jowz told al Jazeera TV that several thousand people are hunkering down in the area, hoping to cross into Turkey. More than 10,000 Syrian refugees have fled to Turkey in recent days.
Syrian government TV, meanwhile, blasted Arab satellite channels for what it called "distorting the truth" and demanded an apology. The TV showed residents of Jisr al-Shughour embracing soldiers that occupy their town and claiming that "all is well."
Anti-government websites showed videos of hundreds of protesters in Syria's third largest city of Homs demonstrating against the government Saturday. At least 19 people were killed Friday after government forces fired on protesters in Homs, Banias and several other towns.
Syrian TV, however, claimed that "armed men" fired on police in Homs and elsewhere Friday, killing nine. It also claimed that protesters "fired on ambulances and medics," and "burned hospitals." Opposition activists denied the charges. It was impossible to verify any of the claims, since foreign correspondents are not being allowed into Syria.
Opposition groups on Facebook are also calling for an open-ended general strike in the capital Damascus to protest the government crackdown. Hundreds of protesters in the Damascus suburb of Douma turned out to chant slogans against the government Saturday.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Arab daily Asharqalawsat, insisting that "continued brutality may allow (Assad) to delay the change that is underway in Syria, (but) it will not reverse it." Analysts in Damascus say that Mr. Assad will address the Syrian people in the coming week to "announce new reforms."
Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution in the western U.S. state of California, insists that Mr. Assad is losing support from key regional players like Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "Erdogan has begun to distance himself from Bashar [al-Assad. He has called on [him] to alter his ways. He has already called Maher al Assad, Bashar's younger brother, [and] spoken of his 'horrific slaughter' of Syrians, and accused him of 'savagery.' They see across the border. They see refugees with their horror stories, so I think they are under no illusions about the regime," he said.
Ajami also thinks that Arab states have remained largely silent about Syria, in contrast to the positions they took on Libya, due to Damascus' strategic importance in the region. "The silence on Syria, when you contrast that with the unusual decision by the Arab League to speak out on Libya and to urge the protection of its citizens speaks volumes. The Syrian regime is more strategically situated in the Arab world, and despite the massacre, despite the slaughter that is taking place, I think the Syrian regime unfortunately has cards to play," he said.
Ajami also believes that Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah are involved in the Syrian governments' repression of its people.
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The alliance said Saturday its forces saw a column of military vehicles in an area of conflict between rebels and Libyan forces and attacked it. The convoy was later confirmed to be an opposition patrol. NATO gave no figures on casualties but said it "regrets any possible loss of life or injuries.''
The coalition has also called Libyan government claims that alliance airstrikes are targeting civilians "outrageous." At a Saturday news conference in Brussels, spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said it is Libyan leader Mommar Gadhafi and his forces who have been "systematically and brutally attacking" Libyan people.
On Friday, Mr. Gadhafi delivered a fiery audio message in which he vowed to defeat NATO forces. His message came as NATO warplanes pounded targets in the capital, Tripoli.
Libyan state television says more allied airstrikes took place on Saturday in a neighborhood in the capital.
Elsewhere, clashes have erupted between forces loyal to Mr. Gadhafi and rebels in the northwestern city of Nalut. Rebel fighters said Saturday that at least eight people have been killed in the unrest.
Diplomatic efforts to help resolve Libya's crisis continue.
Leaders of groups that include the European Union, African Union and United Nations gathered at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Saturday. They discussed policies that could help end Libya's conflict, protect civilians and provide humanitarian assistance.
In a separate development, Austria on Saturday became the latest foreign power to announce that it will recognize the opposition Transitional National Council as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people. The group has already received recognition from countries that include Italy, France, and Qatar.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the United States and other foreign powers are holding talks with the Taliban aimed at ending the nearly decade-long war.
Mr. Karzai's announcement Saturday to reporters in Kabul is thought to be the first official comment on U.S. involvement in such negotiations. However, the U.S. Embassy declined to comment.
The United States is set to start withdrawing combat troops from Afghanistan in the coming weeks. U.S. President Barack Obama already has met with his top commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, to discuss plans for the drawdown, but so far, he has not announced how many troops initially will leave the country.
Afghan security forces are slated to take control of all security operations by 2014. Afghan and coalition forces continue to face stiff resistance in the Taliban's southern strongholds, as well as an influx of foreign fighters in the eastern part of the country.
NATO said three of its service members were killed Saturday, two in southern Afghanistan and one in the east. French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said one of the soldiers killed in the south was French.
The Taliban has launched a series of brazen assaults on the capital, where Afghan forces are in charge of security. The latest attack occurred Saturday, near the presidential palace and shortly after Mr. Karzai's press conference.
Officials say three militants armed with suicide vests and guns stormed a Kabul police station, killing nine people.
The Taliban claimed responsibility. Authorities say four security force members and five civilians died in the attack. Four police officers were wounded. None of the attackers survived. At least one wore an Afghan army uniform.
The Taliban has consistently rejected any peace talks as long as foreign forces are in Afghanistan.
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Morocco's youth-based February 20 Movement is calling for a nationwide protest Sunday, saying King Mohammed's plan to limit his power does not go far enough.
The pro-reform group said Saturday the monarch's proposal does not meet its "demands for a true separation of powers." The February 20 Movement - named for the date its demonstrations began - said it would "protest peacefully."
On Friday, King Mohammed promised reforms that would limit his power through a series of constitutional changes.
The king announced the proposals in a televised address. Moroccans will be able to vote next month in a referendum on the changes, which would strengthen the office of prime minister and the parliament. But the king would retain exclusive control in religious and military matters, and would choose the prime minister from the party that won elections.
The speech was met with cheers, honks, and flag-waving from Moroccans driving through the streets of the capital, Rabat.
The king's speech comes in response to nationwide pro-reform demonstrations in recent months inspired by popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world. Protesters have been demanding improved civil rights and an end to corruption.
The proposals were crafted by a reform panel appointed by the king in March.
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Former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba died Saturday at his home in Lusaka.
President Chiluba suffered a heart-attack at home after spending most of Friday with his lawyers and members of parliament. He had been treated for a heart condition for several years. Emmanuel Mwamba, his former spokesperson said he became ill in the early evening and his condition continued to worsen.
"His personal physician attended to him and he went into an attack just before midnight. His doctor tried to do all he could and sadly we lost the president at five minutes after midnight," he said.
Chiluba learned his political skills as a trade unionist and was detained by former president Kenneth Kaunda in 1981 for organizing a wildcat strike that paralyzed the economy.
He helped found the Movement for Multiparty Democracy, or MMD, in 1990, leading the party to victory the next year in the first multiparty post-colonial elections in Zambia. The MMD beat Kaunda's United National Independence Party, or UNIP, paving the way for Chiluba to become president.
Chiluba began his tenure by allowing greater political freedoms and liberalizing sectors of the economy, and received accolades at home and abroad for his efforts.
However, his administration became increasingly bogged down by allegations of corruption and maladministration. He also was the target of personal criticism for his lavish lifestyle, including his wardrobe of handmade monogrammed shoes and suits.
Chiluba won a second and final five-year term in 1997 but in the lead up to elections in 2001 he repeatedly proposed changes to the constitution that would allow him a third term. A backlash from Zambians forced him to back away from the proposals.
After he left office his hand-picked successor Levy Mwanawasa instituted anti-corruption investigations and Chiluba was charged with misappropriating $500,000 to his personal account. He was acquitted in 2009.
However state prosecutors also filed civil charges against him in Britain and he was found guilty of stealing $46 million in government funds while president of Zambia. He was ordered to repay 85 percent of the money, but the court order was never enforced in Zambia.
Chiluba is survived by his second wife and nine children. He was 68.
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Officials said Saturday that South Korean troops fired at a passenger plane carrying 119 passengers and crew, thinking it was a North Korean warplane.
Two Marine guards on Gyodong island off the western coast of South Korea fired their K-2 rifles (similar to the M-16) at the ASIANA plane as it descended for landing Friday at Seoul's Incheon airport.
The passenger liner was on a flight from China and was undamaged, because it was out of range of the rifles.
Officials say the firing lasted about 10 minutes, with the guards discharging around 99 shots.
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President Barack Obama and John Boehner, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, spent four hours playing golf together on Saturday. The two political rivals were not expected to reach any deals on contentious issues such as government spending or U.S. military involvement in Libya, but were rather getting to know each other on a personal level.
President Obama and the top House Republican are at odds on numerous issues, but on Saturday they teamed up on the golf course at a military facility near Washington.
White House officials and the speaker's office say the president and Boehner defeated Vice President Joe Biden and John Kasich, the Republican governor of Boehner's home state of Ohio.
Afterward, officials say, the foursome retreated to the clubhouse, enjoyed cold drinks, watched the U.S. Open golf tournament on television, and visited with service members.
Mr. Obama invited the speaker to the golf outing several weeks ago, in hopes of establishing a personal relationship, and eventually reaching consensus in the areas that divide them.
White House spokesman Jay Carney recently told reporters no agreements on the major issues were expected to arise from the round of golf. But he said efforts to resolve those disagreements would be helped by the president and the speaker getting to know one another on a social level, rather than bickering through the media.
"That is a good thing. It is good for the process. It is good for the country. It may move you a little bit closer towards the kind of compromise that we need to get the things done that the American people expect us to get done. So if it takes a few hours out on the golf course to help that process, I think it is a worthwhile thing to do," he said.
The session on the golf course came as Mr. Obama and speaker Boehner are battling each other on budget negotiations and the U.S. military involvement in Libya.
The debt ceiling - the legal limit on the amount the U.S. government is allowed to borrow - is a main area of contention between the two.
The Obama administration says the government will surpass the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling on August 2, and failing to raise it will have grave consequences.
Republicans have insisted on budget cuts of about $2 trillion over 10 or 12 years before agreeing to expand the government's borrowing authority.
The two leaders have also clashed over U.S. military involvement in Libya. Boehner has said the president needs to act in accordance with the War Powers Resolution, which requires congressional approval for a sustained U.S. military operation.
Administration officials contend that the resolution does not apply to the mission in Libya, which they say does not rise to the level of a war. They have also reminded reporters that Boehner had questioned the constitutionality of the act in the 1990's.
And since becoming speaker, Boehner has made it a priority to try to overturn the health care reform legislation that Mr. Obama considers a cornerstone of his presidency.
Neither the White House nor Boehner's office has released the scores from Saturday's golf outing. But they did say the match was won on the 18th and final hole. As a result of a bet, the president and the speaker won $2 each.
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Since the earliest days of the Dutch settlers, New York has been the first stop for many immigrants coming into the United States - and in recent years, that has included immigrants from Africa. More than half a million African migrants have come to the United States since 1980, and many have settled in New York, like other groups before them. But with them have come serious social issues, especially for young West African women working in the city.
One of the main West African immigrant enclaves is in this Bronx, New York, neighborhood. They are hard-working, religious people, who are making a life for themselves and their families in this new, different environment.
Many women work as nannies or domestics, hotel chambermaids or go to school. And many work in fear, like this woman named Fatou, a home attendant.
"I am scared to talk to people, I do not want to lose my job," said Fatou.
Fatou says the son of a client tried to have sex with her and it was not the first time it happened on a case. It was similar, in a way, to the case of former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is charged with attacking a West African chambermaid, and now awaits trial.
Dorchen Leidholdt, director of a group called Sanctuary for Families, says her group tries to help immigrant women.
"Immigrant women, especially young women, immigrant women, are especially vulnerable to sexual harassment in the workplace," said Leidholdt. "Eighty percent of our clients are immigrants. Most come from Latin America, Asia, Africa, like the victim in this particular case. And we hear horrifying stories about what they are subjected to by employers."
The National Domestic Workers Alliance is calling for an international law banning harassment in the workplace. Ai-Jen Poo says domestics and chambermaids have the same problems.
"The way we like to talk about it in the domestic work industry is, it is almost like our industry is, we call it, 'the wild West,' because almost anything goes," noted Ai-Jen Poo. "There is no regulation, very little protection, very little standards. It is often up to the individual workers who are very often isolated to advocate for their rights with very little power to do so."
As a college student at John Jay College in Manhattan, Guinea native Marie Toure was told that she could get a higher grade in exchange for sexual favors.
"It was a scary situation," said Toure. "I had to keep my GPA [grade point average] up. Having a professor do that to you is kind of like scary. Because if he is in school as a teacher he is supposed to protect you. But if he is putting you in a situation where you are scared and put in a situation to hurt you. It is hard to know what to do."
Counselor Miriama Diallo is also from West Africa. She says the psychological effects and dangers in the workplace or at school are real.
"The women who share their experience, it is a huge effect. The psychological that it has on them you cannot describe. Nightmares, flashbacks, lack of sleep, tearful, profound tearful expressions when they come to these sessions," Diallo noted.
New York City's Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs, Fatima Shama, says the city and state of New York are trying to reach out to these women and assure them they can get help, whether documented or undocumented.
"We understand the fear, we understand unfortunately what is happening in our communities," said Shama. "This is why, I think, a conversation like this today, allowing us to truly repeat and remind people there are agencies and people interested in protecting them and their well-being, whether it is immigration, unauthorized around immigration, or other areas where individuals or consumers are not being protected or victimized."
According to the Center for Battered Women's Legal Services, the fact that the woman in the Strauss-Kahn case came forward and reported him to the police may be a psychological turning point for immigrant women workers and students.
When the ocean liner RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, more than 1,500 passengers died. It made headlines as one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history. The fateful voyage was the backdrop for the blockbuster 1997 movie Titanic. Now the ship's story has come to life in an exhibit at a Las Vegas hotel.
As they enter the exhibit at the Luxor Hotel, each visitor receives a boarding pass with the name of an actual passenger aboard the Titanic. They enter the exhibit as if they were boarding the ocean liner on April 14, 1912.
They walk past an unadorned third-class cabin before reaching the elegantly-furnished first-class section - considered more luxurious than any hotel of the era.
The more than 300 artifacts on display were recovered from the ocean floor, after the wreck was discovered in 1985. The jewelry, personal toiletries, china and silverware take visitors like Eric Barr back in time.
"When you actually see the artifacts, it brings you a little closer to life, to the boat. It makes you feel like you were actually on the ship with the passengers," said Barr.
The Artifact Exhibition also features replicas. The most noteworthy is the grand staircase that most people recognize from the movie Titanic. Laurie Maidment is from England.
"It was amazing, especially the scene where you come into the first class where the stairs are and what it was like in the first class," she said. "And you could imagine Rose from the film walking down the stairs. It was fantastic, really good."
Exhibit specialist Randy Dale finds a section of the ship's hull named "The Big Piece" to be "fascinating."
"It is the only one of its kind around the globe. It is the largest piece ever brought up from the Titanic itself," said Dale. "It is 15 tons and it is 26 feet [8 meters] wide. And it fills up an entire room and when you go in that room you feel the essence of the ship itself."
"Amazing, absolutely amazing," said one visitor standing in front of "The Big Piece."
Visitors are invited to touch a specially-created iceberg to feel how cold the water was when the supposedly unsinkable ship went down.
"And the individuals that lost their lives, most of them did not die from drowning, they died of hypothermia, which is where their body basically shuts down because it gets too cold," said Dale.
The emotional journey through the exhibit ends at the Memorial Wall, where visitors learn their passenger's fate.
" He survived," said Barr. "He survived... right there. It is cool. He is only 21 years old. Very educational and emotional. I felt like I was one of the surviving passengers, you know, kind of like telling the story."
It's a story The Artifact Exhibition in Las Vegas will be telling until it closes in 2018.
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President Barack Obama is celebrating Father's Day weekend in the United States with a reminder for dads that children want their time and unconditional love above all else.
In his weekly address to the nation Saturday, Obama said growing up without a father encouraged him to work hard at doing his best to raise his daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Obama's parents separated when he was two years old, and the future president met his late father only once more, when he was still a young boy. Raised primarily by his grandparents in Hawaii, the president said he wonders what life would have been like with his father in the home.
Obama says he has learned that children need consistency and discipline from parents to help them to establish their own sense of responsibility.
In the Republican weekly address, Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota focused on the United States' national debt and the economy. Hoeven called on President Obama to send pending free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama to Congress for approval.
Hoeven added that, if ratified, the South Korean free trade agreement alone would create 280,000 American jobs.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino has decided not to allow the body of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos to be buried in a cemetery for national heroes in Manila.
The president's office said Saturday that a hero's burial was out of the question, but Aquino had yet to decide whether Marcos' body should be given full military honors. Marcos, who died in exile in Hawaii in 1989, was an army officer during World War II.
His remains were brought to his northern Philippine hometown in Batac in Ilocos Norte in 1993.
Marcos was swept out of office in 1986 in a "People's Power" revolt that put President Aquino's mother, Corazon Aquino in power.
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Thousands of Greek communist party supporters have marched through the capital, Athens, to protest government austerity plans aimed at preventing the country from defaulting on its massive debt.
About 5,000 protesters marched to the Greek parliament Saturday, led by communist party leader Alex Papariga, who accused the government of colluding with its creditors to "skin the people alive." The march ended without incident.
Greece has seen weeks of near-daily protests against Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou's plans for tax hikes, spending cuts and state asset sales demanded by international lenders in return for emergency loans.
Papandreou reshuffled his Cabinet Friday, naming his main Socialist rival as finance minister in a bid to ease party criticism of his handling of the crisis. His new government faces a confidence vote on Tuesday in parliament, where the ruling party holds a slim majority, with 155 of the 300 seats.
If the government survives the vote, Papandreou is expected to seek parliamentary approval for the austerity package by the end of this month. Greek labor unions are threatening to stage a 48-hour strike when that happens.
Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos is due to hold his first meeting with other finance chiefs of the 17-member euro zone in Brussels on Sunday.
EU Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn has said he expects the euro zone ministers to agree to provide Greece with the next installment of a bailout loan approved last year by the EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF has said it is ready to release its share of the $17 billion installment if Greece meets its austerity promises.
Greece has said it needs the $17 billion to avoid defaulting on its debts next month. Athens also is seeking a second bailout package to keep its economy afloat beyond September, but EU leaders have been unable to agree on the terms of such a loan, including how much of its should be funded by the private sector.
EU powers Germany and France moved closer to resolving the dispute Friday, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed with French President Nicolas Sarkozy that private sector involvement should be voluntary. She previously had demanded compulsory participation by banks and other private lenders.
The chairman of the euro zone's Eurogroup, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, criticized German pressure for private sector funding of a new Greek bailout, likening it to "playing with fire."
In comments to a German newspaper published Saturday, he said a Greek debt default could spread the crisis to other highly-indebted EU nations, including Italy and Belgium, in addition to Spain.
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Afghanistan officials say three militants armed with suicide vests and guns stormed a police station near the presidential palace in Kabul, killing four security force members and five civilians.
Authorities say the attack triggered a shootout between the militants and the police Saturday in the Afghan capital. At least one of the attackers wore an Afghan army uniform.
An Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman said none of the attackers survived and four police officers were wounded.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. It was the latest in a string of brazen assaults in what has been considered a relatively secure area. It also comes weeks before coalition forces begin pulling out of the country.
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U.S. authorities say they are modifying how they enforce a key immigration program to concentrate on the most serious criminals.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton says authorities are listening to concerns from local and state governments about the Secure Communities program in which law enforcement agencies share fingerprint information with U.S. immigration authorities.
Federal immigration authorities say the program will be modified to focus more on illegal immigrants who are serious criminals.
Critics and several local and state governments who are against the current program say it does not differentiate between minor offenders and serious criminals. They say it discourages immigrants from reporting crimes out of fear they could end up being deported.
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The United States says is it considering if war crimes charges can be brought against Syria's president as part of a larger diplomatic effort to get his government to end its crackdown on dissent.
In a telephone conference with reporters Friday, two senior White House officials said the U.S. is also considering economic sanctions against Syria's oil and gas sectors.
The officials said the U.S. is stepping up efforts with its allies as well as regional opposition figures to put pressure Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.
In a column in the pan-Arab daily newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that with his crackdown, Assad is "placing himself and his regime on the wrong side of history." She said Syria's brutality against its people has "shattered his claims to be a reformer."
Clinton also spoke with her Russian counterpart trying to get Russia on board with a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the violence against protesters. Russia and China have so far opposed efforts to draft a resolution.
The diplomatic wrangling comes as Syrian security forces Friday shot and killed at least 18 more anti-government protesters. Activists and witnesses say security forces used live ammunition against protesters who poured into the streets with renewed calls for President Assad's resignation.
Western news reports say at least five of the deaths occurred in the flashpoint city of Homs and two in the eastern town of Deir el-Zour. At least one teenager is among those killed.
Anti-government rallies were also under way in other cities, including Daraa, Latakia and near the capital, Damascus.
The unrest spilled over into neighboring Lebanon on Friday, where two people were killed following a protest against Assad's government. Residents from a Sunni Muslim neighborhood in the city of Tripoli clashed with those from a neighborhood inhabited by members of the Shi'ite Alawite sect. Assad's family is part of the sect.
Earlier Friday, security forces mounted new assaults in the country's restive northwest, sending tanks and troops into two more cities.
Rights activists and witnesses say the military sent large numbers of soldiers into Maaret al-Numaan, a city that is on the highway linking the capital and the large city of Aleppo. In addition, the security forces moved into the town of Khan Sheikhun.
Meanwhile, Turkish officials say the number of Syrians who have crossed the border to flee from the unrest is nearing 10,000.
The al-Jazeera television network said Friday that some Syrians who have gathered near the Turkish border also demonstrated against President Assad.
World powers are increasingly condemning the crackdown. On Friday, French officials voiced support for additional European Union sanctions on President Assad's government.
On Thursday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the Syrian president to "stop killing people" and negotiate with the protesters "before it's too late."
Rights activists and witnesses say more than 1,300 civilians and 340 government troops have been killed since mid-March.
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Pakistan officials say a bomb blast has killed two children.
Authorities say more than 20 other people, including at least four soldiers, were wounded in the explosion Saturday in Panjgur district in the southwest province Baluchistan.
In another incident Saturday in Panjgur, a bomb blast has killed one person and wounded eight other people.
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