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Official: About 20 dead in Mexico prison riot
Official: About 20 dead in Mexico prison riot (KPIC)
Nuevo Leon state public security spokesman Jorge Domene Zambrano told Milenio television that the riot broke out at about 2 a.m. at a prison in the city of Apodaca outside of the northern industrial city of Monterrey.

20 killed in Iraq blastBAGHDAD - A suicide bomber detonated his car on Sunday as a group of police... (The Cyprus Weekly)
A suicide bomber detonated his car on Sunday as a group of police recruits left their academy in Baghdad, killing 20 in the latest strike on security officials that angry residents blamed on political feuding that is roiling Iraq.

Roadside bomb kills 4 civilians in Afghanistan (Bellingham Herald)
The police chief of Kandahar's Shah Wali Kot district, Mohammad Bacha Khan, said the four were killed on Sunday when their car drove over the bomb.

Zimbabwe's president says 'definitely yes' to 2012 election (The Globe and Mail)
Zimbabwe's president says he will "definitely" call elections this year to end a fragile three-year coalition with the former opposition and describes as cowards politicians who say polls cannot be held until well into 2013.

Elizabeth Smart Marries At Hawaii Temple (OfficialWire)
Elizabeth Smart, the Utah woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint at age 14 and held captive for nine months, married her fiance Saturday at a Mormon temple in Hawaii.

PM urged to detail devolution offer (Hillingdon Times)
The First Minister has called on David Cameron to "set out the terms" of his offer of further devolution before the Scottish Government's consultation on an independence referendum ends in May.

US counterterror adviser pledges support for Yemen
US counterterror adviser pledges support for Yemen (Boston)
A Yemeni newspaper vendor waits for customers in his stall displaying a campaign poster of Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi in the old the city of Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Feb.

Honduran inmates awoke to nightmare at blaze killed hundreds at prison farm (The Washington Post)
Jose Enrique Guevara woke up to screams and a flash of heat from the fire about to engulf his prison bunk bed.

School bus in India plunges into river killing seven (CTV)
Police say a school bus plunged into a river and at least seven people were killed in the west-coast Indian resort state of Goa.

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