Tag: suicide-bombing
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Baghdad bombing death toll rises to 292: health ministry
The death toll from a suicide bombing in Baghdad this weekend has reached 292, Iraq's Health Ministry said on Thursday. The attack, claimed by the militant group Islamic State, which government forces are trying to eject from large parts of the north and west of the country, was the deadliest bombing in Iraq since U.S.-led…
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WHO predicts modest rise in yellow fever deaths in Africa
GENEVA (AP) — A top U.N. health agency official says he expects some increase in yellow fever deaths in coming months from the current outbreak in Angola and Congo, but it will be “incremental not exponential.”