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Afghanistan

KANDAHAR — A suicide car bomber targeted a private U.S. security firm Sunday in southern Afghanistan, killing up to four Afghans working for the company and wounding another, police said.

Canada

MONTREAL — A team of mainly Muslim girls was forced to pull out of a Tae Kwon Do tournament near Montreal Sunday because its members refused to remove their hijabs.

Ecuador

GUAYAQUIL — Leftist President Rafael Correa scored a major victory Sunday as Ecuadoreans voted overwhelmingly to support his ambitious plan to remake the nation's system of government and weaken its discredited Congress, an exit poll showed.

Germany

BERLIN — A German army instructor who ordered a soldier to envision himself facing hostile blacks in New York while firing his machine gun is still on duty, the army said Sunday. A video of the army instructor telling the soldier to shoot and yell obscenities while thinking of African-Americans in the Bronx aired on German national television Saturday and prompted calls for an apology by the New York City borough's president.

Iran

TEHRAN — Iran said Sunday that it was seeking international bids for building two more nuclear power plants despite international pressure over its nuclear program.

Israel

JERUSALEM — The Vatican's ambassador to Israel attended a Holocaust memorial service on Sunday, reversing an earlier decision to boycott the event that threatened to upset fragile ties between Israel and the Holy See.

Kenya

GARISSA — A crowded bus overturned and burst into flames, killing 17 people and injuring more than a dozen as it rolled three times on a dirt road in remote northeast Kenya, authorities said.

Morocco

RABAT — The U.S. closed its consulate in Casablanca indefinitely on Sunday to review security a day after a suicide bombing beside the building, the U.S. Embassy said.

Russia