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(Updated 3:27 p.m.) PESHAWAR, Pakistan - The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 313 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Rescue and government officials say flooding has killed at least 267 people in Pakistan over the past three days.

Every time the automatic doors at the outpatient ward of Islamabad's main hospital slid open, they revealed a thick white mist lingering inside.

WASHINGTON - Charlene Cotton will talk to anyone about sex. Several days a week she stands behind a table decorated with a bowl of flavored condoms and safer sex pamphlets, calling to women passing on the street, "Come check out my table. Don't be scared."

WASHINGTON - Scientists from around the world are providing even more evidence of global warming, one day after President Barack Obama renewed his call for climate legislation.

BAGHDAD - Militants flew an al-Qaeda flag over a Baghdad neighborhood Thursday after killing 16 security officials and burning some of their bodies in a brazen afternoon attack that served as a grim reminder of continued insurgent strength in Iraq's capital.

BAGHDAD - Militants flew an al-Qaida flag over a Baghdad neighborhood Thursday after killing 16 security officials and burning some of their bodies in a brazen afternoon attack that served as a grim reminder of continued insurgent strength in Iraq's capital.

The Thai government has ended emergency rule in six provinces, but not in Bangkok, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday.

The U.S.-led United Nations Command will meet again Friday with North Korea to discuss the sinking of a South Korean warship, according to the U.S. Forces Korea website.

A Spanish judge issued arrest warrants for three U.S. soldiers on Thursday in connection with the death of a Spanish TV cameraman in Iraq in 2003, reopening a long-running legal battle, according to a copy of the court order viewed by CNN.

India accorded a red-carpet welcome Tuesday to the top leader of Myanmar's military junta, who is on a five-day visit aimed at strengthening diplomatic and economic ties between the neighboring countries.

ROME - They knock the noses off statues in a park that was a favorite haunt of poet John Keats and throw dye into the iconic Trevi Fountain.

MOSCOW - Moscow on Thursday broke its all-time temperature record for the second time in a week as Russia continued to sizzled in a stubborn heatwave and forest fires elsewhere forced evacuations and ravaged provincial homes.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Rivers burst their banks during deadly monsoon rains lashing Pakistan, washing away streets, battering a dam and submerging thousands of homes, officials said Thursday.

The death toll stands at 13 in Wednesday's blast at a factory in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, state-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing remarks by authorities on Thursday.

At least 90 people have been killed since Wednesday due to floods caused by monsoon rains in northwest Pakistan, a provincial minister told CNN.

French prosecutors said Thursday they charged a woman with murder after she admitted giving birth to and killing eight babies in northern France.

Sectarian tensions rippled through an Indonesian town Thursday, where groups squared off over the closing of a minority group's mosques.

Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications has cut off overnight public Internet access in businesses and banned advertisements of online games pending new regulations amid a public outcry over the games' influence on youth, the state-run news agency reported.

An Indonesian woman is sentenced to three years in prison for aiding and harboring terrorists accused of suicide bombings and other attacks.