Thai troops fired at protesters on Saturday in a third day of fighting that has killed 17 people on Bangkok's streets as soldiers struggle to isolate a sprawling encampment of demonstrators seeking to topple the government.
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A group of suicide bombers in Iraq attacked a soccer match.
Insurgents attacked players and spectators at a soccer match on Friday in volatile northern Iraq, killing eight and wounding 120 as al Qaeda warned of 'dark days coloured in blood' for the country's Shi'ite majority.
One attacker drove a pick-up truck full of explosives onto the soccer pitch, targeting athletes, while two suicide bombers strolled into the crowd of onlookers, police and witnesses said.
The blasts took place in Tal Afar, a town predominantly inhabited by Shi'ite Turkmen about 60 km (40 miles) west of the violent city of Mosul, where Sunni Islamist insurgents such as al Qaeda remain active.
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35 people were kidnapped in Pakistan.
Suspected militants dressed as policemen kidnapped at least 35 people in troubled northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Saturday, government and police officials said.
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57 dead in clashes in Darfur.
Darfur's strongest rebel group clashed with Sudanese government forces guarding a convoy, sparking a gunfight that killed 57 officers and insurgents, police said.
The fighting in South Darfur state late on Thursday is the latest in a surge of violence in the remote territory since the suspension of peace talks between Khartoum and the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) last week.
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