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WATERTOWN, Mass.,  (Reuters) – Police killed one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing during a shootout and were engaged in a house-to-house search for a second man today in the Boston suburb of Watertown after a bloody night of shooting and explosions in the city’s streets.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistani police took former president Pervez Musharraf into custody at their Islamabad headquarters today, hours after a court had ordered him placed under house arrest, Musharraf’s spokesman said.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – Investigators released pictures and video of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing yesterday, enlisting the public’s help in identifying two men wearing backpacks and baseball caps in the crowd minutes before bombs exploded near the finish line.

LIMA, (Reuters) – South American leaders were to make a collective show of support for Venezuelan President-elect Nicolas Maduro  in Lima yesterday, officials said, as the United States and his opponents call for a recount of the disputed vote.

WEST, Texas, (Reuters) – Rescuers searched yesterday for survivors in the rubble of homes destroyed by a fiery fertilizer plant explosion in a rural Texas town that the mayor said had killed at least 14 people.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice has accused Guinea-Bissau’s top military official of plotting to traffic cocaine to the United States and sell weapons to Colombian rebels, according to court documents seen by Reuters yesterday.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – An estimated 1 million Argentines marched yesterday in one of the biggest anti-government protests in years, highlighting public anger over a deteriorating economy and President Cristina Fernandez’s efforts to reform the media and courts.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was forced to flee a courtroom yesterday moments after judges ordered his arrest, dealing a fresh blow to his fast-fading hopes of reviving his political career at next month’s general elections.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – A judge suspended the genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt yesterday, saying all actions taken since November 2011 are void in the case of the retired general charged with war crimes.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself inside a Baghdad cafe popular with young people using the Internet, killing at least 27 and wounding dozens more in one of the worst single attacks in the Iraqi capital this year.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – At least 27 people were killed and dozens more wounded today when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Baghdad cafe popular with teenagers using the Internet, police and hospital officials said.

WEST, Texas,  (Reuters) – Rescue crews searched the wreckage of a fertilizer plant and dozens of demolished homes for bodies today after a fiery explosion injured more than 160 people and prompted the evacuation of half a small Texas town.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was forced to flee a courtroom today moments after judges ordered his arrest, dealing a fresh blow to his fast-fading hopes of reviving his political career at next month’s general elections.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s campaign to curb gun violence after the Newtown school massacre was dealt a crippling blow yesterday when the U.S.

BOSTON/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Investigators have spotted a Boston Marathon bombing suspect from security video taken before two blasts ripped through central Boston on Monday, a U.S.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Several South American presidents will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday in Lima to discuss the political crisis in Venezuela following the disputed election of President Nicolas Maduro, Peru’s foreign ministry said yesterday.’

DAKAR, (Reuters) – U.S. anti-drugs agents who snared Guinea-Bissau’s former Navy chief in a high-seas sting last week were also targeting the head of the West African state’s army, sources familiar with the operation told Reuters.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Senegalese prosecutors yesterday formally charged Karim Wade, the son of the West African nation’s former president, with corruption and ordered him to be detained without bail, his lawyer told Reuters.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – Investigators believe they have spotted a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing from security video, a U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Royalty, dignitaries and admirers from all walks of life paid their final respects to Margaret Thatcher today in the grandest funeral for a British leader in half a century – although a few boos from the London crowd were a reminder of her divisive rule.