Number of border-crossing deaths drops
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The number of illegal immigrants who died while crossing the southern U.S. border fell for the second straight year, officials said Wednesday.
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After years of growth in "remittances," a crackdown on illegal immigration and a slowing United States economy appear to take a toll.
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A government safety crackdown helped cut the number of deaths in China&#39;s accident-plagued coal mines by 13 per cent in the first nine months of this year, but fatalities in other industries rose, the government said Thursday.
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SASABE, Mexico -- Mario Alberto Diaz, a biologist nearing completion of his master's degree, crawled under a barbed-wire fence marking the border with the United States one evening this summer. He had 48 hours to go in his illegal trek across the desert.
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The number of Israelis and Palestinians killed in the Middle East conflict dropped last year but human rights abuses continued, a leading Israeli human rights group said yesterday
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Death rates from cancer have   continued to drop in the United States, with Hispanics showing   lower-than-average rates of most cancers, according to the   latest statistics published on Wednesday.
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A sport utility vehicle crammed with suspected illegal immigrants rolled over in an attempt to outrun Border Patrol agents, killing nine people and injuring at least 12 others, officials said.
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Baghdad recorded more than 1,500 violent deaths in August, according to final figures released by the Health Ministry this week &#151; nearly three times the preliminary figure the same ministry had released last week. The figure is a sharp contradiction of U.S. and Iraqi claims that a security crackdown led to a steep drop in deaths in the capital.
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Deaths among Iraq civilians, police and soldiers dropped slightly last month but the number of wounded rose, indicating little easing of violence since the killing of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, government figures showed Monday.
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Iraqi civilian deaths dropped to their lowest level since the start of the Baghdad security operation, government figures showed Sunday, suggesting signs of progress in tamping down violence in the capital.
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The number of illegal immigrants arrested along U.S. borders dropped 23 percent during the past nine months -- evidence, officials said, that stepped-up enforcement is working.
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Traffic chaos eases at the scene of a border death crash in which two people died.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Updated figures from Iraq's Health Ministry show there was no significant decline in violent deaths in Baghdad last month, but the U.S. military insisted Thursday the murder rate in the capital had fallen by 52 percent.
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NORWAY today revised the number of its citizens killed in tsunamis in Asia down as diplomats and police bickered over the right method to track victims and possible survivors.
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Russian border guards killed two armed  men on Wednesday who tried to cross over the border from  Georgia, Russia&#39;s FSB internal security service told Russian  news agencies.
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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Civilian deaths declining but political deadlines not being met, says Congress assessment.