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DALLAS (AP) — Houston and Galveston remain under a flash flood watch through Monday morning. Heavy rains are expected to pummel Southeast Texas through midday today as a storm that's soaked parts of the state since Friday combines with what's left of hurricane Patricia. The mayor of Houston warns of localized city flooding. The original storm flooded roads and derailed a train.
MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — Police say the preliminary focus is on a short circuit as a possible cause of a karaoke bar fire in Indonesia that killed 17 people and injured more than 70. Authorities say all of the dead were Indonesians. The club had only one entrance.
LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says the rise of the Islamic State group can be partially blamed on the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Blair tells CNN that "there are elements of truth" in the assertion. He says the Arab Spring uprisings had also played a role. Blair's decision to take Britain into the Iraq war — based on false claims about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction — remains hugely divisive. Blair insists that removing Saddam was the right thing to do.
OPATOVAC, Croatia (AP) — There's more evidence that the flood of refugees and other migrants trying to reach a better life in Europe isn't letting up. Croatia says a record number of 11,500 migrants have entered the country in just one day. An Interior Ministry spokesman says the number of people who crossed into the country yesterday was the highest in a single day since the flow started in mid-September.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Doctors without Borders is revising the death toll upward in the bombing of a trauma hospital in northern Afghanistan by U.S. forces earlier this month. The international medical charity now says 30 people were killed including "10 known patients, 13 known staff and seven unrecognizable bodies." The bombing happened as Afghan forces with U.S. air support battled to retake Kunduz.
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