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• QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- The governor of a province in southwestern Pakistan where 81 people died in a massive bombing says security officials are too scared of retribution from terrorists to do their jobs.
• Governor Zulfiqar Magsi said Sunday that Saturday's bombing in the city of Quetta was the result of a failure of the security and intelligence agencies in the province.
• More than 160 other people were wounded when the blast ripped through a vegetable market where people were buying produce.
• Most of the dead and wounded were Shiite Muslims.
• The minority sect has often been targeted by Sunni extremists who view them as heretics and not real Muslims.
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• CHELYABINSK, Russia (AP) -- As a small army of people worked to replace acres of windows shattered by the enormous explosion from a meteor, many joked on Saturday about what had happened in this troubled pocket of Russia.
• One of the most popular jests: Residents of the meteor were terrified to see Chelyabinsk approaching.
• The fireball that streaked into the sky over this tough industrial city at about sunrise Friday was undeniably traumatic. Nearly 1,200 people were reported injured by the shock wave from the explosion, estimated to be as strong as 20 Hiroshima atomic bombs.
• But it also brought a sense of cooperation in a troubled region. Large numbers of volunteers came forward to help fix the damage caused by the explosion and many residents came together on the Internet -- first to find out what happened and soon to make jokes.
• Chelyabinsk, nicknamed Tankograd because it produced the famed Soviet T-34 tanks, can be as grim as its backbone heavy industries. Long winters where temperatures routinely hit minus-30 Celsius (minus-22 Fahrenheit) add to a general dour mien, as do worries about dangerous facilities in the surrounding region.

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