Woman dies on boat carrying Cubans to U.S.
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A boat overloaded with Cubans being smuggled into the U.S. tried to ram a Coast Guard vessel in rough seas early Saturday, and a woman aboard the boat died, authorities said.
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An upstate New York tour boat was overloaded with passengers when it capsized on a fall foliage tour in October, killing 20 elderly tourists, federal investigators said Tuesday.
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One woman and one child died as a van reportedly carrying Romania-based Kazakh diplomats and their family members crashed on a highway near Sofia Friday, the Interior Ministry said.
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A woman died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a portable generator, bringing Virginia's death toll from the remnants of Tropical Storm Ernesto to six, officials said.
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PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba -- Hurricane Ivan, which has left at least 60 people dead in its devastating sweep across the Caribbean, battered the Cayman Islands yesterday and set its course toward Cuba, where authorities were girding for possibly the worst storm in living memory.
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A sailor is reported to have been killed when a ship with an eleven-member crew, including a Russian citizen, sank in the North Atlantic off the Faeroe Islands on Monday.
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WASHINGTON, September 16.-Hurricane Ivan entered US territory with trail of wind and rain that provoked at least 18 deaths, according to partial reports announced by Prensa Latina.
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Bad weather and overloading sank a  boat on a lake between Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda  and at least 35 people were feared drowned, a local shipping  official said on Tuesday.
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A boat carrying Haitian migrants caught fire off the coast of the Dominican Republic, leaving at least eight passengers dead and 44 missing, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said Thursday.
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At least 17 people, mostly women and children, were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo when a passenger ferry sank on Lake Tanganyika, but around 120 people survived, a senior official said on Wednesday.
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Icy conditions are blamed for the deaths of 13 migrants aboard a boat headed for the Canary Islands in Spain.
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 4 -- A woman who had chased her rolling minivan down a steep hill and jumped in before it sank into a pond died Wednesday along with two children, authorities said. A third child was in critical condition.
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CORTES, Cuba -- After killing 68 people and decimating tens of thousands of properties across the Caribbean, Hurricane Ivan plowed through the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, setting off an exodus from Cancun to New Orleans, where locals girded for what could be the worst storm in decades.
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AUSTIN, Texas  - Former Texas first lady Nellie   Connally, who was riding in the limousine with President John   F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963, has died at the   age of 87, a family friend said on Saturday.
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KABUL A senior commander of the Taliban who had been released from the American detention center in GuantÃ¡namo Bay, Cuba, was killed Saturday in Uruzgan Province, Afghan officials said Sunday.
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Vilma Espin Guillois, the wife of acting President Raul Castro and one of the communist nation's most politically powerful women, died Monday, the Cuban government announced. She was 77.
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Ignacio Insua, a Cuban cameraman working   for Reuters Television in Havana, died on Monday of a heart   attack after suffering spine injuries in a car accident. He was   57.