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AHMEDABAD,  (Reuters) – At least 132 people were killed in the western Indian state of Gujarat yesterday when a footbridge packed with sightseers enjoying holiday festivities collapsed and plunged them into the river below.

MOGADISHU,  (Reuters) – The two car bombs that exploded at Somalia’s education ministry next to a busy market intersection killed at least 100 people and wounded 300, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said yesterday, warning the death toll could rise.

DOVER, England,  (Reuters) – A man threw petrol bombs attached to fireworks at a centre for processing migrants in the southern English port of Dover yesterday and then killed himself, a Reuters photographer said.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Protests in Iran entered a more violent phase yesterday as students, who defied an ultimatum by the Revolutionary Guards and a warning from the president, were met with tear gas and gunfire from security forces, social media videos showed.

AHMEDABAD, India,  (Reuters) – At least 81 people were killed when a pedestrian bridge over a river in the western Indian state of Gujarat collapsed, plunging hundreds of people into the water, officials said.

MOGADISHU,  (Reuters) – The two car bombs that exploded at Somalia’s education ministry, next to a busy market intersection, killed at least 100 people and wounded 300, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said today, warning the death toll could rise.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – At least 151 people, mostly teenagers and young adults in their 20s, were killed in a crush when a huge crowd celebrating Halloween surged into an alley in a nightlife area of the South Korean capital Seoul on Saturday night, emergency officials said.

GOMA, (Reuters) – The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has given Rwandan ambassador Vincent Karenga 48 hours to leave the country in retaliation for Rwanda’s alleged support of the M23 rebels in the Congo’s eastern provinces.

(Reuters) – Russia yesterday suspended participation in a U.N.-brokered Black Sea grain deal after what it said was a major Ukrainian drone attack on its fleet in Crimea, dealing a blow to attempts to ease the global food crisis.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russia’s defence ministry said yesterday that British navy personnel blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines last month, a claim that London said was false and designed to distract from Russian military failures in Ukraine.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – The head of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards warned protesters that yesterday would be their last day of taking to the streets, in the clearest sign that security forces may intensify their already fierce crackdown on widespread unrest.

KARACHI, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – A Pakistani national held by the United States for 18 years in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp without trial on suspicion of links to al Qaeda returned home to Pakistan yesterday, Pakistan and the United States said.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – The man who clubbed U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in the head with hammer, shouting “Where is Nancy?”

SEOUL, (Reuters) – At least 146 people were killed in a stampede when a huge crowd celebrating Halloween crammed into an alley in a night life area of the South Korean capital Seoul last night, emergency officials said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russia’s defence ministry said today that British navy personnel blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines last month, a claim that London said was false and designed to distract from Russian military failures in Ukraine.

FRONTLINES NORTH OF KHERSON, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia said yesterday it had finished calling up reservists to fight in Ukraine, having drafted hundreds of thousands in a month and sending more than a quarter of them already to the battlefield after a divisive mobilisation campaign that was its first since World War Two.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – Democrats turned to former President Barack Obama yesterday to rally Georgia voters in a tight U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – An intruder demanding to see U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi broke into her San Francisco home and attacked her husband with a hammer early yesterday, officials said, in an assault that stoked fears about political violence ahead of the Nov.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United States will next week put the United Nations spotlight on protests in Iran sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody and look for ways to promote credible, independent investigations into Iranian human rights abuses.

 FRONTLINES NORTH OF KHERSON, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has plunged Europe into an era of insecurity, Germany said today, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin predicted a “dangerous” decade ahead.