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Several injured in blast at Kurdish opposition party rally in Turkey

An explosion apparently caused by an electrical fault injured several people at an opposition party rally in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Friday, days before parliamentary elections. Television footage showed people being carried out on stretchers as organizers of the rally for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) announced on loudspeakers that the explosion had been caused by a fault in a power generator and urged people to

Death toll from market blast in Nigeria's northeast rises to 45

The death toll from a suicide bombing at a market in the northeastern Nigerian town of Yola rose to 45 on Friday, authorities said. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack but it bore the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram. “Ten more people died this morning,” police spokesman Othman Abubakar told Reuters, adding to the 35 bodies that a senior policeman, who wanted to remain anonymous,

Top Asian News at 4:00 p.m. GMT

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Police in Florence wondered where all the money was going. Italy’s economy was heading off a cliff, but its Chinatowns were booming. Luxury cars snaked past Chinese betting parlors and garment factories that hummed into the night. Chinese immigrants were buying up Italian coffee bars and real estate. But their prosperity was not reflected in local tax records. “What do they do with the money?” said