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Nigeria

At least 50 killed in mosque bombing

A teenage bomber killed at least 50 people after detonating a suicide vest at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 50 people, police said on Tuesday. It was one of the region's deadliest attacks in years. Police spokesman Othman Abubakar said they were "still trying to ascertain the number of injured because they are in various hospitals".

United States

Top court urged to allow travel ban

The White House asked the US Supreme Court on Monday to allow President Donald Trump's latest travel ban to take full effect after a California appeals court ruled last week that only parts of it could be enacted. The administration's appeal argued that the latest travel ban differed from the previous orders "both in process and in substance" and that the differences showed it "is based on national-security and foreign-affairs objectives, not religious animus".

35 hurt in blasts, fire at NY factory

Two explosions and a fire at a New York cosmetics factory recently cited for safety violations left 30 to 35 people injured, including seven firefighters caught in the second blast, authorities said on Monday. None of the injuries appear to be life threatening. There was no word on a cause of the blaze.

Japan

Babies dumped in concrete buckets

A mother who dumped four of her babies in buckets filled with concrete that she then kept in her apartment for two decades was arrested in Japan on Tuesday. Mayumi Saito, 53, told investigators she had given birth to the infants between 1992 and 1997. She said she did not think her desperate financial predicament made it possible for her to look after the children.

Argentina

Sound not from missing submarine

A sound detected on Monday in the South Atlantic, near where a Navy submarine with 44 crew went missing five days ago, is not believed to have come from the ill-fated vessel, a spokesman said. The sound detected by probes initially raised hopes that crew members aboard ARA San Juan, which disappeared after reporting an electrical malfunction, may have been intentionally making noise to attract rescuers.

(China Daily 11/22/2017 page11)