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¤ A suicide bomber killed 17 people and wounded 35 when he blew his car up in a market in the Iraqi northern city of Tal Afar yesterday, police said. Earlier police had said the attack targeted police and army headquarters in the city. ¤ Lava streamed...

¤ A suicide bomber killed 17 people and wounded 35 when he blew his car up in a market in the Iraqi northern city of Tal Afar yesterday, police said. Earlier police had said the attack targeted police and army headquarters in the city.

¤ Lava streamed down the sides of Indonesia's mystical Mount Merapi yesterday, but the clouds of hot gas belching from the top were substantially smaller than the day before.

¤ Iraq's new government is finally taking shape and could be unveiled this week, negotiators said yesterday, signalling a compromise among sectarian and ethnic factions to rally behind Shi'ite strongman Nuri al-Maliki.

¤ A Russian judge declared yesterday that the only surviving member of a group responsible for the Beslan school raid that killed 331 people had committed an act of terrorism.

¤ Sudan said yesterday it would announce new procedures for one of the world's largest aid operations in Darfur within a week, following a peace deal with a rebel faction in the violent western region.

¤ An undersea earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia's remote Nias island yesterday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, the Bureau of Meteorology and Geophysics said.

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