A Briton has died following flash floods which have killed at least 40 people in Madeira, the Foreign Office says.

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Portugal sends naval ships with helicopters and medical supplies to Madeira island, where floods and mudslides killed at least 32.

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A explosion Saturday at a bakery in the western Indian city of Pune killed at least eight people and injured 33 others, authorities said.

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Eight killed in India bakery ‘bomb’ blast

An intense fire at a South African orphanage killed at least 15 people, including eight children, and injured nine other people, authorities said.

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Orphanage fire kills 15 in South Africa

Heavy flooding in central Mexico in the past week has killed at least 33 people and left thousands homeless, the government said Monday.

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State and federal investigators were expected to launch an investigation Monday at a power plant where an explosion killed at least five people and injured more than two dozen, authorities said.

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Inquiry into deadly power plant blast

A blast targeting a bus filled with Shiite religious observers in Karachi killed at least 12 people and another explosion in front of a hospital where attack victims were being treated killed six more, the government said.

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Dual deadly blasts strike Karachi

Suspected U.S. drone strikes killed at least 29 people in several villages of northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, Pakistani intelligence sources said.

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Islamic State of Iraq — an umbrella group which includes al Qaeda in Iraq — said it had carried out a string of vehicle bomb attacks that killed at least 36 people in Baghdad Monday.

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Al Qaeda-linked group claims Iraq blasts

A drone attack on a suspected militant compound killed at least 20 in South Waziristan early Sunday morning, Pakistani officials said.

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Drone attack kills 20 in Pakistan

Missiles fired from a US drone aircraft have killed at least three people in north-west Pakistan, officials say.

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Deadly drone attack in Pakistan

Two back-to-back explosions in western Iraq’s Anbar province on Wednesday killed at least eight people and wounded 20 others, including the provincial governor, the interior ministry said.

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Governor wounded in deadly Iraq blast

Rain-fueled flooding in Argentina has killed at least two people and forced the evacuation of 3,000 residents, officials said Tuesday.

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Argentinians flee deadly floods

Two suicide bombers killed at least four people Thursday in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, an official said.

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An explosion killed at least 20 people and wounded 60 others Tuesday in the central Pakistani city of Dera Ghazi Khan, said a rescue service official.

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20 dead in Pakistan market blast