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Joy at finding a survivor on Friday gave way to gloom Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of a collapsed factory building. The death toll rose rapidly to 1,110 people.

Bulgarian politicians traded accusations after authorities here seized hundreds of thousands of allegedly illegally printed ballots on the eve of a hotly contested parliamentary election.

REYHANLI, Turkey (Reuters) - Twin car bombs killed 43 people and wounded many more in a Turkish town near the Syrian border on Saturday and the government said it suspected Syrian involvement.

The Group of Seven leading industrial nations reaffirmed their commitment to refrain from deliberately weakening currencies through monetary policies.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani threw himself into Iran's election race on Saturday as a flurry of heavyweight candidates rushed to beat the registration deadline in the most unpredictable contest for decades.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - An apparent homophobic killing has increased concerns among Russian activists about prejudice against gays, which they fear will be encouraged by a bill banning homosexual "propaganda".

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Several thousand people protested in Gabon on Saturday against a spate of ritual killings that has seen mutilated bodies washing up on beaches in the central African state this year.

ROME (Reuters) - Italian coastguards picked up 139 people in two inflatable boats off the southern coast of Sicily, authorities said on Saturday, the latest in a series of arrivals of clandestine immigrants.

ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi launched a fierce attack on magistrates at a stormy political rally on Saturday, accusing them of trying to eliminate him politically but he pledged to keep supporting the fragile coalition of center-left Prime Minister Enrico Letta.

Iran’s presidential campaign took an unexpected turn on Saturday, when two game-changing politicians entered the race in the final minutes of a five-day registration period.    

Ahmed Maher, a leader of the April 6 Youth Group, was questioned and held overnight in a high-security prison, then released Saturday.    

Senior American and Afghan officials met in Kabul to iron out details of a pact that defines relations after 2014, when foreign combat troops are to withdraw from Afghanistan.    

The rapid grass-roots response to the April earthquake in Sichaun Province reveals how far China’s nascent civil society movement has come since a major quake in 2008.    

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The organizer of a forum on promoting ideas through the Internet accused Sudanese state security agents on Saturday of shutting down the event in Khartoum by cutting off the power.

Moderate Rafsanjani and presidential ally Mashaei filed to run for president in Iran's June election, posing a challenge to conservative candidates loyal to the clerical leadership.

The police say the death toll from the collapse of a garment-factory building has reached 1,115, and rescue workers are continuing to dig.    

A selection of comments from readers in Pakistan on what Saturday’s elections mean to them.    

Two car bombs exploded in a Turkish town near the border with Syria on Saturday, killing around 40 people and wounding 100 others, officials said. Turkey's deputy prime minister said Syria's intelligence and military were "the usual suspects" behind the bombings, but said authorities were still investigating the attacks.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces thwarted an al Qaeda-linked group's plan to carry out a suicide attack on a foreign embassy and captured several militants, the interior minister said on Saturday.

The Group of 7 meeting also focused on banking reform and efforts to stem tax avoidance, as Europe grows tired of austerity measures.