Officials: 1 dead in U.S. tent collapse

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s top prisons official said the government was evacuating a prison Saturday after a deadly riot that reportedly left dozens of people dead amid a clash between National Guard soldiers and armed inmates.

Clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Saturday left four people dead and 18 others injured, hospital and security officials said.The two groups clashed in the northwestern district of Imbaba after Muslims attacked a Coptic church to free a Christian woman they alleged was being held against her will because she wanted to convert to Islam.It was not immediately clear whether dead and injured were Muslims or Christians.

At least two people were killed and 13 others wounded in an explosion in a building in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday, officials said, but the cause was unknown.Top local administration official Sahebzada Mohammad Anees said: "Two people were killed and 13 others wounded in the explosion.A senior doctor at the government's main hospital, Zafar Iqbal, also confirmed the number of casualties, saying: "Two dead bodies and 13 injured have been brought to the hospital."

Venezuela’s biggest oil refinery has been shut down following a gas explosion that killed 41 people and injured 86 others some 240 miles west of Caracas, news agencies reported.

At least six people were killed on Saturday and a further 50 injured in two explosions at a crowded market area in the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials said."I saw six people dead and more than 50 wounded," Ali Muse, the head of Mogadishu's ambulance service told AFP, adding some bodies had been removed from the scene before he arrived.The explosions went off near a mosque in Bakara market, he said.

A violent tropical storm killed at least 84 people and devastated more than 67,000 homes as it swept across eastern India and Bangladesh overnight, officials said Wednesday.Winds of up to 120 kilometres (75 miles) an hour tore across northeastern India and neighbouring Bangladesh around midnight, ravaging mud and tin-roofed homes, uprooting trees and bringing down electricity lines.Officials in the states of West Bengal, Bihar and Assam said a total of 82 people had been killed. Two others were reported dead in Bangladesh, including a police officer.

MOSCOW — A passenger airliner careered off the runway at Russia’s third-busiest airport and partly onto a highway while landing on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing at least four people. Officials said there were eight people aboard the Tu-204 belonging to Russian airline Red Wings that was flying back from the Czech Republic without passengers to its home at Vnukovo Airport.