Ike hits Cuba as dangerous Category 3 hurricane 
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</a>AP   Hurricane Ike's winds and massive storm surge ripped apart houses and toppled trees Monday as the deadly storm roared across Cuba toward Havana and its historic but decaying old buildings </p><br clear="all"/>
Several explosions in Pakistan's northwest kill 6 
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</a>AP   Several explosions  reportedly caused by missile strikes from unmanned U S  drone aircraft  hit a house and seminary linked to a key Taliban commander in northwestern Pakistan  officials said </p><br clear="all"/>
Flooding from Ike kills 58 in rain soaked Haiti 
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</a>AP   Hurricane Ike's torrential rains swelled rivers across Haiti and sent floodwaters gushing into homes in the dead of night in one eastern town  killing at least 58 people </p><br clear="all"/>
US re examines Afghan civilian deaths from attack 
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</a>AP   The U S  military said Sunday it has new evidence about civilian casualties from an American attack that Afghanistan says killed scores of women and children and it is sending a senior officer to the country to review its initial finding that no more than seven civilians died </p><br clear="all"/>
6 Afghan civilians killed in explosion 
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</a>AP   A roadside blast in southern Afghanistan killed six civilians Monday  and a Canadian soldier died in another explosion in the same region  officials said </p><br clear="all"/>
Church of Scientology to be tried in France for fraud  legal source 
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</a>AFP   The Church of Scientology will be tried in a French court for "organised fraud " legal sources said Monday </p><br clear="all"/>
Death toll in Egypt rock slide at 38 
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</a>AP   The death toll from a devastating rock slide that buried a shanty town has risen to 38  officials said Monday as efforts to find any remaining survivors continued to lag </p><br clear="all"/>
A look at death toll from Atlantic storms 
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AP   A look at deaths so far from the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season 
Death toll hits 43 in Cairo shanty town rockslide 
     Reuters 

</a>Reuters   The death toll from a rockfall that sent 
boulders crashing down on dozens of houses in a crowded Cairo 
shanty town has risen to 43  with more people still missing  
Egyptian security sources said on Monday </p><br clear="all"/>
U S  drones kill 13 in missile attack in Pakistan 
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</a>Reuters   Missiles fired by U S  
drones killed 13 people  including 7 foreign militants  on 
Monday in a Pakistani village where a religious school founded 
by an old friend of Osama bin Laden is located  intelligence 
officials and witnesses said </p><br clear="all"/>
ConocoPhillips to pay $8 bln for stake in Origin gas scheme 
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</a>AFP   US oil giant ConocoPhillips will pay up to 9 6 billion dollars  8 0 billion US dollars  for a half share of a coal seam gas  CSG  venture with Australia's Origin Energy in a deal that could thwart a hostile bid by Britain's BG Group </p><br clear="all"/>