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NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - A radical Shi'ite cleric and Iraq's interim prime minister made gestures on Friday to defuse a two-week uprising in Najaf, after ferocious U.S. air strikes and heavy fighting killed at least 77 people.

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KUMBAKONAM, India (Reuters) - Rescuers frantically bashed holes through brick walls to try to save trapped children as a fire engulfed a thatched-roof school in southern India on Friday, killing 77 children.