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Afghan officials say cold weather and freezing temperatures have killed 20 people, mostly children in a remote northern Afghan province bordering Turkmenistan.

In terms of human life, the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit New Zealand this month was relatively merciful: two fatalities.

Chilpancingo, Mexico, Nov 25 (efe_epa).- The prosecutor's office of the southern Mexican state of Guerrero said Thursday they have recovered 32 bodies and nine severed heads from 20 clandestine graves in Cerro Tenanchitla in Zitlala municipality.

Iraqi hospital and police officials say the death toll from a car bombing south of Baghdad claimed by the Islamic State group has risen to 73, including about 40 Iranian pilgrims.

Firefighters have reined in a blaze that spread across Israel's third-largest city of Haifa and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.

Officials say two suspected rebels and an Indian army soldier have been killed in a gunfight in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Turkey is pushing to capture the town of al-Bab, the last major Islamic State group stronghold in northern Syria.

The last public beach on Beirut's heavily developed seaside could soon be squeezed out by yet another luxury resort, raising fears that residents could find themselves living in a coastal city without much of a coast.

Investigators have found 32 bodies and nine human heads in clandestine graves in a municipality in southern Mexico where rival drug gangs have been engaged in a wave of extortion, kidnappings and turf battles, authorities said Thursday.

Known for chaotic avenues filled with car-dodging pedestrians, balconies that discharge waterfalls onto sidewalks and reggaeton played at deafening volume, Havana wants to clean up its streets.

Tropical Storm Otto headed toward the Pacific Ocean early Friday after dumping rain on Costa Rica and Nicaragua, where it made landfall as the southernmost hurricane on record to hit Central America.

Investigators have found 32 bodies and nine human heads in clandestine graves in a municipality in southern Mexico where rival drug gangs have been engaged in a wave of extortion, kidnappings and turf battles, authorities said Thursday.

The Philippines' immigration chief says 1,240 Chinese nationals suspected of working illegally in the country for an online gambling operator have been arrested at a resort and casino complex north of Manila.

An announcement on a Chinese human rights monitoring website says the site's editor has been detained on suspicion of subverting state power.

Central America was struck on Thursday by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake with so far no report of deaths, injuries or material damage, triggering an initial tsunami alert in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, which both are also on high alert due to the onslaught of Hurricane Otto.

North Korea said Friday that it had discussed the issue of American and Canadian detainees with the Swedish ambassador in the country.

A retired Colombian general has been found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the 1989 assassination of a top presidential contender.

China's central bank has set the value of the yuan at the currency's lowest level against the U.S. dollar in eight years.

The eye of Hurricane Otto passed over Costa Rica Thursday afternoon bringing winds of at least 150 kilometers (93 miles) per hour and dumping rain in the northern part of the country, the National Weather Institute, or IMN, announced.

Nicaraguan authorities on Thursday suspended the tsunami alert they had announced after the 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the country's northern Pacific coastal region earlier in the day, although its epicenter was in El Salvador.