The mounting number of migrants is high on the national agenda following a series of crimes, including rapes, that have been blamed on the newcomers.

Netanyahu says the influx is “threatening the fabric of Israeli society, its national security and its national identity.”

He says if Israel doesn’t stop it, then “60,000 infiltrators are liable to become 600,000, and lead to the eradication of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.”

More than 50,000 Africans have poured into Israel since 2005, seeking to escape persecution and poverty.

Some Israelis believe their country, created after the Holocaust, must help the oppressed.

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Sayed Faizullah Sadat, the national disaster director in Sar-e-Pul province, said Sunday that 60 other people are missing and rescuers are looking for them across the city.

The flooding began on Saturday in Sayyad district and then washed out most of the capital city of Sar-e-Pul.

Sadat says 1,000 houses have been destroyed and 10,000 people have found shelter in mosques, schools and a teacher-training center.

Flash flooding also killed two other people in the past two days in northern Takhar province.

Northern Afghanistan gets hit nearly every spring by flash flooding from heavy rains and snow melting off the mountains.

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Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was leading Sunday’s protest in Dhaka. The 18-party opposition alliance accuses the government of manipulating courts and of abducting one of its leaders, Elias Ali. The government denies the allegations.

On Thursday, the alliance enforced a nationwide general strike protesting a court order rejecting bail for 33 jailed opposition leaders in an arson case. The opposition says the charge is politically motivated.

The opposition has also set a June 10 ultimatum for the government to restore the caretaker government system to oversee national elections due in 2014.

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South Africa issued a notice saying it wants to require merchants “not to incorrectly label products that originate from the Occupied Palestinian Territory as products of Israel.”

The notice did not specify what the labels should say. The proposal has not yet taken effect, pending public objections that can be submitted through the end of June.

Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told Army Radio on Sunday that the South African ambassador would be summoned to discuss the proposal.

Israel claims it is being singled out because special labels are not applied to products made in dozens of other places where territorial conflicts exist.

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The quake struck at 4:04 a.m. Sunday between Modena and Mantova, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) north-northwest of Bologna at a relatively shallow depth of 5 kilometers (3.2 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said.

It was one of the strongest quakes to shake the region, seismologists said, and initial television footage indicated that older buildings had suffered damage: roofs collapsed, church towers showed cracks and the bricks of some stone walls tumbled into the street. As dawn broke over the region, residents milled about the streets inspecting the damage.

Italian news agency ANSA, citing emergency services, said two people were killed in Sant’Agostino di Ferrara when a ceramics factory collapsed. Another person was killed in Ponte Rodoni do Bondeno, ANSA said.

Italy’s Sky TG24 showed images of the collapsed ceramics factory where the two workers were reportedly killed; the structure, which appeared to be a hangar of sorts, had twisted metal supports jutting out at odd angles amid the mangled collapsed roof.

“It was a strong one, and it lasted quite a long time,” said Emilio Bianco, receptionist at Modena’s Canalgrande hotel, housed in an ornate 18th century palazzo. The hotel suffered no damage and Modena itself was spared, but guests spilled into the streets as soon as the quake hit, he said.

Many people were still awake at 4 a.m. and milling about town anyway since it was a “white night,” with stores and restaurants open all night. Museums were supposed to have remained open as well but closed following the bombing Saturday of a school in southern Italy that killed one person.

The epicenter was between the towns of Finale Emilia, San Felice sul Panaro and Sermide but was felt as far away as Tuscany and northern Alto Adige.

The initial quake was followed about an hour later by a 5.1-magnitude temblor, USGS said. And it was preceded by a 4.1-temblor.

In late January, a 5.4-magnitude quake shook northern Italy. Some office buildings in Milan were evacuated as a precaution and there were scattered reports of falling masonry and cracks in buildings.

In 2009, a devastating temblor killed more than 300 people in the central city of L’Aquila.

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The vote is key for Serbia’s plans to become an EU member, after being an isolated pariah state under late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s. It also will determine whether Serbia continues to reconcile with its neighbors and wartime foes, including the former province of Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008.

Tadic, who is seeking a third term, was slightly ahead of Nikolic in the first round of voting on May 6, while Nikolic’s Serbian Progressive Party won the most votes for parliament, but is likely to stay without power because Tadic’s Democrats have agreed to form the next government with the third-placed Socialists.

The nationalists have accused the Democrats of rigging the general vote, including the first-round presidential ballot — the charge that was rejected by authorities, but is fueling fears of possible post-election violence.

Tadic, who championed Serbia’s bid to become an EU member, was leading the pre-runoff polls, but the pro-democratic voters are known to be less enthusiastic than the nationalists when it comes to casting their ballots.

Tadic has built his presidential bid around his pro-Western policies, but his biggest problem remains the economic downturn and corruption within the ruling elite. Faced with the global financial crisis, which has slowed down much needed foreign investments, Tadic’s government has seen massive job losses and plummeting living standards.

Nikolic, who narrowly lost two earlier presidential votes against Tadic, claims to have shifted from being staunchly anti-Western to pro-EU, and says that he wants Serbia both “in the West and the East.” Nikolic has close ties with Russia and has even in the past envisaged Serbia as a Russian province.

Nikolic’s populism has struck a chord with voters, who warmed to his criticism of widespread social injustice and corruption in Serbia and promises of jobs, financial security and billions of dollars in foreign investment.

Tadic has also overseen a more conciliatory stance toward Serbia’s neighbors and war foes in the 1990s, including Kosovo, the former province that is considered by nationalists as the cradle of Serbia’s state and religion.

Nikolic has said he would abandon the EU plan if it means that Serbia must give up its claim on Kosovo, and he has forged an alliance with the staunchly anti-EU party of former Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica.

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Sunday’s balloting is key for Serbia’s plans to become an EU member, after being an isolated pariah state under late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s. It also will determine whether Serbia continues to reconcile with its neighbors and wartime foes, including the former province of Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008.

Tadic was slightly ahead of Nikolic in the first round of voting on May 6, while Nikolic’s Serbian Progressive Party won the most votes for parliament. Nationalists claimed the vote was rigged — a charge that is fueling fears of possible violence after the runoff. Tadic led pre-election polls before the runoff.

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The quake that struck at just after 4 a.m. Sunday was centered 35 kilometers (21.75 miles) north-northwest of Bologna at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Italian news agency ANSA, citing emergency services, said two people were killed in Sant’Agostino di Ferrara when a ceramics factory collapsed. Another person was killed in Ponte Rodoni do Bondeno.

In late January, A 5.4-magnitude quake shook northern Italy. Some office buildings in Milan were evacuated as a precaution and there were scattered reports of falling masonry and cracks in buildings.

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Speaking at a low-key inaugural ceremony in Taipei’s ornate presidential office building, Ma Ying-jeou hewed to the same formula for relations across the 160-kilometer-wide (100-mile-wide) Taiwan Strait he championed during his first term.

“Our cross-strait policy must maintain the status quo of ‘no unification, no independence and no use of force,’” Ma said.

He reaffirmed his support for the so-called 1992 Consensus, an informal agreement reached by representatives of the sides accepting that there is only one China — and not one China, and one Taiwan, which is the stance of many in Taiwan’s pro-independence opposition. But Ma enunciated his position in a way apparently calculated to leave hard-liners in Beijing disappointed.

“When we speak of one China, naturally it is the Republic of China,” he said.

The Republic of China is the exiled government that Nationalist icon Chiang Kai-shek brought with him to Taiwan in 1949, when Mao Zedong’s Communist forces prevailed in the Chinese civil war.

Beijing sees it as a historical relic that lost its legitimacy when Mao proclaimed the establishment of the People’s Republic of China 63 years ago. Since then, Chinese leaders have always insisted that Taiwan must be brought under their control, by persuasion if possible, by force if necessary.

Ma won re-election in January largely by assuring voters that he would safeguard their hard-won democratic freedoms, while simultaneously moving forward with his signature policy of tying Taiwan’s high-tech economy ever closer to China’s lucrative markets. That formula has helped to lower cross-strait tensions to their lowest level in six decades.

His remarks on Sunday — reaffirming his opposition to unification and his fealty to the Republic of China — make it clear that he still supports that path.

Despite Ma’s relatively comfortable re-election victory — he won by six percentage points — he begins his second term under the shadow of deep-seated voter dissatisfaction with his overall performance. A particular focus is his economic policies, including a recent decision to raise utility rates.

Tens of thousands of anti-Ma protesters gathered in downtown Taipei on Saturday to demonstrate against those policies. Wearing red and green armbands emblazoned with the Chinese character for “anger,” the demonstrators snaked their way through the streets of the capital before gathering in front of the presidential office building under a light drizzle.

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The quake at just after 4 a.m. Sunday was centered 35 kilometers (21.75 miles) north-northwest of Bologna at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), the USGS said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

In late January, A 5.4-magnitude quake shook northern Italy. Some office buildings in Milan were evacuated as a precaution and there were scattered reports of falling masonry and cracks in buildings.

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