Pieces of the failed launch were recovered some 40 miles north of the Chinese-Siberian border in a wooded area.

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Hangwani Mulaudzi, police spokesman for the Limpopo province, said no crocodile attacks had been reported in the area - in the far north of South Africa, near the border with Botswana.

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The death of Wali ur Rehman was confirmed by three Pakistani security officials in the North Waziristan region, part of Pakistan's tribal area near the Afghan border, where the strike took place, as well as by local residents.

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The SNP finance minister John Swinney cites cancer drugs to me as one area in which English patients can receive treatment on the NHS not available north of the border.

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While Irish police (gardai) have not ruled anything out at this stage they suspect that a cross-border gang was involved in the robbery and murder, and that gang operates in the north Louth-south Armagh area.

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