Boat Sinks in Congo; at Least 35 Dead
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GOMA, Congo - A boat overloaded with passengers and freight sank in choppy waters on a lake in Congo, killing at least 35 people, shipping officials said Tuesday.
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Twenty people are now known to have been killed when a freight train derailed in south-east Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese Red Cross has said.
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More than 550 people have fallen victim to a cholera epidemic so far this year in Lubumbashi, capital of Congo's mineral-rich Katanga province, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Friday.
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Two cargo boats sank in Thailand's Mekong River after the water level dropped sharply and exposed hazardous reefs.  The first boat, a Lao vessel, hit a reef and capsized, killing a man and his son, the Bangkok Post reported Monday.
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One person was killed and two injured when a drone from the European Union force in the Democratic Republic of Congo crashed in the capital Kinshasa, witnesses and officials have told AFP.
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At least 30 Somali and Ethiopian migrants drowned when a smuggler's boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, adding it was checking reports the death toll was as high as 78.
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Up to 340,000 people have been affected by continuing flooding in Bolivia, which has left 35 people dead.
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Efforts have been intensified in the search for the 36 people still missing following a Yellow River boating accident on Thursday morning in Linyi County of north China&#39;s
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Cyclone Gonu&#39;s power was waning on  Friday, after it killed at least 35 people and wrought damage  in energy producers Oman and Iran in the previous days.
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At least 40 people have been killed and 42 are missing as floods and landslides swept away houses and destroyed roads across parts of Vietnam, officials said Monday.
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War, disease and malnutrition are killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said.
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Seventeen would-be immigrants drowned and 47 were missing after a boat that was to have carried them across the Mediterranean broke up and sank off the Tunisian coast at the weekend, the Tunisian navy and eyewitnesses revealed.
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More than 550 people died in Haiti last weekend from flooding and mudslides set off by Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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Earthquakes struck Rwanda and  neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, killing at  least 30 people and seriously injuring 350 more, officials  said.
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At least 100 passengers are feared dead as a boat sinks off the shore of the DR Congo on Lake Tanganyika.
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About 200 African would-be immigrants are dead or missing after two boats they were travelling in sank off the coast of Yemen on the weekend, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said Tuesday.
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As many as 100 people are feared drowned after a boat packed with passengers sank on Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo