World News Update, what you need to know

World News Update, what you need to know

A double suicide bombing outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut has killed at least 23 people, in an attack claimed by a jihadist group.

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SAINT PETERSBURG - Russian courts have granted bail to seven foreign Greenpeace activists detained for an oil drilling protest.

DURBAN - One person has died and as many as 50 workers are feared trapped after the roof of an under-construction mall collapsed near the South African city of Durban.

OLBIA, Italy - Italian emergency workers are searching house by house on the island of Sardinia after a Mediterranean cyclone triggered flash floods, leaving 17 people dead and forcing hundreds to seek emergency shelter.

KATHMANDU - Millions of Nepalis have defied low expectations and threats of violence to vote in elections seen as crucial in breaking its political deadlock seven years after a civil war ended.

KABUL - Afghanistan and the US have solved a key sticking point in a crucial security pact just two days before it was due to be voted on by Afghan tribal and political leaders, an Afghan official says.


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