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LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police now say at least 54 people are dead and more than 100 wounded after a suicide bomber detonated explosives near the country's eastern border with India. The explosion hit near a paramilitary checkpoint as hundreds of people were returning from a military parade on the outskirts of Lahore.

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The prime minister of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region says Iraqi Kurdish forces will only stay in Syria "temporarily." The first group of Iraqi peshmerga fighters entered the embattled city of Kobani on Thursday by way of Turkey. They're joining up with Syrian Kurdish fighters to try to keep the city from falling to Islamic State extremists.

CAIRO (AP) — A Libyan medical official says at least 210 people have been killed since mid October in the battle for control of Benghazi. Troops loyal to the country's elected government have joined forces with other fighters and are trying to retake Libya's second-largest city from Islamist militias.

FORT KENT, Maine (AP) — The Maine nurse who successfully fought a mandatory quarantine after treating Ebola patients says she acted on behalf of all U.S. medical workers who are trying to bring the deadly outbreak under control in West Africa. But Kaci Hickox tells the Maine Sunday Telegram she'll respect the wishes of fellow residents and avoid going into town until the 21-day incubation period for Ebola ends on Nov. 10.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The newest tool for biologists is the baby penguin robotic spy. It's so convincing that penguins essentially talk to it, as if it is a potential mate for their chicks. Scientists and filmmakers teamed up to create a remote control rover disguised as a chick to study Emperor penguins, which are notoriously shy and skittish around researchers. The journal Nature Methods says the penguins didn't scamper away from the rover, and even sang to it with trumpet-like sounds.

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