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At least seven people have died and more than 500,000 households were without power after weekend torrential storms tore through northeastern United States. CBC.ca

The UN secretary general promises Haitians that the world has not forgotten the quake-torn nation as it suffers from a shortage of shelter and growing violence in homeless camps. CBC.ca

Partial counts from all of Iraq's 18 provinces show the prime minister's bloc leading in the country's key parliamentary elections. CBC.ca

Tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Bangkok on Sunday, demanding the Thai government dissolve parliament and call new elections. CBC.ca

A magnitude-6.6 earthquake hit off the eastern coast of Japan on Sunday, rattling buildings across a broad swath of the country, including the crowded capital. CBC.ca

A series of shootings left 24 people dead Saturday in a Pacific coast state plagued by drug gang violence. Nearly half died in one shootout between soldiers and armed men. CBC.ca

The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called "aggressive attempts" to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading sex scandals of priests in his German homeland and contended he has long confronted abuse cases with courage. CBC.ca

At least 30 people were killed and dozens injured after four suicide bombers struck Saturday in the southern city of Kandahar, the Afghan president's half-brother said. CBC.ca

At least 13 people were killed and dozens injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday near a security checkpoint in Pakistan's Swat Valley. CBC.ca

A suicide attacker struck a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring 26. CBC.ca

Germany's sex abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese disclosed that while he was archbishop a suspected pedophile priest was transferred to a job where he later abused children. CBC.ca

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has made good on a bet on the outcome of the Olympic men's hockey gold-medal game. CBC.ca

Police in Lahore, Pakistan, say two suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other, killing at least 43 people. CBC.ca

The far-right British National Party had to change its constitution after a judge ordered it to cease accepting new members until it stopped discriminating against non-whites. CBC.ca

Calm has returned to the streets of Athens after strikes and protests against the government's new austerity measures wracked the capital of Greece on Thursday. CBC.ca

Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector are appealing his 2009 murder conviction in California on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct. CBC.ca

Health authorities in the U.S. have for the first time used department store credit cards to help trace the source of a recent salmonella outbreak that left hundreds of Americans ill. CBC.ca

Washington's efforts to engage the military junta of Burma in dialogue aren't working, a senior U.S. official says, citing the regime's decision to bar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from upcoming elections. CBC.ca