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AP - Germany held a memorial service Saturday for the victims of the Love Parade techno music festival, where 21 people were crushed to death and 500 injured in a tunnel that was the only entrance to the event.

AP - A diplomatic spat with implications for international counterterrorism escalated Saturday, when Pakistan's spy chief canceled a visit to London after the British leader suggested that Pakistan exports terrorism.

AP - Rescuers trying to reach thousands of Pakistani flood victims were hampered by deluged roads and damaged bridges Saturday, while fears of disease rose as some evacuees showed signs of diarrhea, fever and other illnesses.

AP - Russia's armed forces mobilized Saturday to fight hundreds of wildfires that have wiped out villages and vast areas of woodland. Officials said the worst blazes were under control, but evacuations continued.

AFP - Thousands of people paid their respects on Saturday in the German city of Duisburg to the 21 people who died in the Love Parade tragedy a week earlier.

AP - Israeli warplanes fired missiles at five targets across Gaza overnight, killing a senior commander of the Hamas military wing and wounding 11 people, the group and the military said Saturday.

AFP - Senior MPs from north and south Sudan are heading for Canada this weekend to learn from Quebec's independence referendums, officials said Friday, as the African state prepares to vote on southern secession.

AFP - Investigators searching the site of an airliner crash near Pakistan's capital in which 152 people died have found the plane's black box, a civil aviation official said Saturday.