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- Late on Friday evening a strong dust storm and thunderstorms hit the northern Pakistan city of Lahore, injuring seven people. The storm ripped down billboards and uprooted trees as winds in excess of 60mph tore through the city. Thousands were left without electricity after power lines were brought down in the high winds. Farmers were most affected by the storms as they were in the process of harvesting the paddy fields and had been piling the grains in the fields, which have now been scattered. (BBC: Dust storms slam northern Pakistan by Sean Batty)
- The United States pressed for a Saturday vote on a Security Council resolution that would impose sanctions on North Korea for its reported nuclear test, but questions from China and Russia on Friday evening cast the timing and possibly the content of the document into doubt. (New York Times: U.S. HITS OBSTACLE TO ACTION BY U.N. ON NORTH KOREA by WARREN HOGE (NYT); Foreign Desk)
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