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A Yemeni government aircraft mistakenly bombed its own troops, killing 29 soldiers, a security official told CNN on Sunday.

A second typhoon in a week pounded the Philippines over the weekend, causing severe flooding and contributing to at least one death, officials said. The first typhoon killed 52 people.

U.S. officials are warning the killing of American-born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the face of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, could spark retaliatory attacks, according to a bulletin obtained by CNN.

The senior Haqqani network leader in Afghanistan, Haji Mali Khan, was captured during a joint NATO-Afghan forces operation, the International Security Assistance Force said Saturday.

A security guard who killed a liberal politician in Pakistan over his remarks on its controversial blasphemy law has been convicted and sentenced to death, his defense lawyer told CNN.

Ophelia strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane early Friday, packing winds of 100 mph as it swirled across the Atlantic far from land, the National Hurricane Center said.

Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki — an American whose fluency in English and technology made him one of the top terrorist recruiters in the world — was killed Friday, officials said.

There was a plane ticket from Perugia, Italy, to Seattle, Washington, with Amanda Knox's name on it.

Violence continued to reverberate around Syria on Friday — with the government claiming 13 military and law enforcement members plus three civilians had died, while an activist group said its tally showed 13 dead.

The U.N. Security Council's admissions committee is set to review the Palestinian application for statehood Friday.