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Albania: Crash kills 14

TIRAN — Fourteen people died and 12 others were injured, many of them seriously, Saturday when a bus fell off a cliff 87 miles north of the capital, Tirana, Albanian authorities said. Police official Hysni Burgaj said a sudden downpour caused the accident.

Authorities still did not know the total number of bus passengers late Saturday.

China: 28 miners dead

BEIJING — Chinese government officials say 28 miners have died after an electrical cable caught fire inside a coal shaft.

An official with the State Administration of Work Safety says the accident happened Saturday evening at the privately owned Xiaonangou coal mine in Sangshuping town in northern Shaanxi Province. He declined to give his name as is customary with Chinese officials. He said today that all the 28 miners working in the shaft were killed when the underground cable caught fire.

Pakistan: Ambush kills 16

PARACHINAR — Militants armed with assault rifles ambushed a convoy of civilian vehicles Saturday, killing 16 people in northwestern Pakistan, the scene of extensive military operations targeting Islamist insurgents. Several people also were wounded in the attack in Char Khel village in the troubled tribal region of Kurram. The travelers were heading to the main northwestern city of Peshawar in vehicles when they were ambushed.

Puerto Rico: Deadly fever

SAN JUAN — Mosquito-borne dengue fever is reaching epidemic stages across the Caribbean, with dozens of deaths reported and health authorities concerned it could get much worse as the rainy season advances.

The increase in cases is being blamed on warm weather and an unusually early rainy season, which has produced an explosion of mosquitoes. Health officials say the flood of cases is straining the region's hospitals. In the Dominican Republic, where at least 27 deaths have been reported, hundreds of health workers and soldiers went door-to-door Saturday to warn about the virus and destroy mosquito breeding areas.

Russia: House as museum

PEREDELKINO — Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russia's most renowned living poet, has given his house along with an extensive art collection to the state as a museum.