Days of terr torrential rain in Southern southern and Central central China have forced more than 300,000 people from their homes. Floods, landslides, and houses tr toppled by the rain are reported to have killed more than a dozen people in China and at least 50 15 over the border in Vietnam. In the Southern southern Chinese province of Guangxi, soldiers and local people struggled to shore up the breaches to a breached dike.

Bulgarians are voting for a new parliament-dominant parliament. Dominant themes and the leader lead-up to the election have been the impact of the global economic downturn and the efforts of the socialist-led Socialist-led government to fight the corruption. At each parliamentary election for the past 19 years, Bulgarians have voted in c the incumbent government out of power.

A bomb has killed five people and injured dozens outside the a Roman Catholic church in the Southern southern Philippines. The bomb went off in quarter above the city Cotabato City on the southern island of Mindanao as w p worshipers left after mass. The military blamed rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the largest armed Muslim group in the Philippines, but . But one of its leaders told Reuters News Agency news agency it was not behind the attack, saying it wasn't interested in the a Christian-Muslim conflict.

torrential adj 奔流的，猛烈的(BT)
topple v 推翻，倾倒，颠覆
breach n 裂口，违背，v 开裂，攻破，违反
dike n 堤防，堤坝
lead-up 引起物，导致物
incumbent adj 依靠的，凭依的，负有义务的，在职的，现任的
worshiper n 崇拜者，礼拜者

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