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Flooding killed four people and forced the evacuation of 94,000 others in the northern Chinese port city of Dandong after heavy rains caused the Yalu river to breach its banks, state media said Sunday.

The streets of Haiti remained calm on Saturday, a day after the country's election officials ended the singer Wyclef Jean's brief, electrifying run for president, suggesting that the distraction of politics had once again given way to the country's struggle for survival.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that the government has managed to overcome the wildfire crisis and has valuable lessons to learn from the experience.

A Boeing 737 jetliner carrying 131 people crashed in a thunderstorm on Monday and broke apart as it slid onto the runway on a Caribbean island. 

Music, not politics, made Wyclef Jean a household name in Haiti and a multimillion-record-selling international star who has always proclaimed his Haitian origins. That was before he announced that he would run for president of Haiti.

The flames, bright orange and menacing, advanced steadily through a field of dried-out reeds, sending up coils of smoke and heading in the general direction of a village that, with its log homes, picket fences and gigantic haystacks, seemed to have been laid out by an arsonist.

Tom Little raised three daughters with his wife in Afghanistan, avoided kidnappings during the Russian occupation, hid in his basement for months during the Taliban rule in the 1990s, survived rocket attacks and endured arrests for one reason, friends and family members said: to provide eye care for indigent Afghans.

Cuba's Fidel Castro took part in his first government function since he nearly died in 2006, repeating his apocalyptic warnings of a nuclear war that only President Barack Obama can avert as he spoke Saturday to a formal session of parliament.