Militants abduct 16 laborers working on a mining project in restive northwestern Pakistan
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Venezuela's opposition leader says son-in-law has been abducted
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At least three Palestinian militants killed in West Bank by Israel
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At least 9 miners are trapped in a coal mine in India's northeastern Assam state
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Israel kills a member of the Palestinian security forces who it says was a militant
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