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Congo boat catches fire, capsizes; 200 feared dead (AP)

September 5th, 2010

AP - A riverboat loaded with passengers and fuel drums caught fire and capsized in southern Congo, and 200 people were feared dead, a survivor said Sunday. A local official…

Gunfire continues in Mozambique; police say 4 dead (AP)

September 2nd, 2010

A woman passes nearby burning tyres in a street in Maputo, Thursday Sept. 2, 2010 a day after police opened fire on stone-throwing crowds who were protesting rising prices in this impoverished country. (AP Photo/Nastasya Tay)AP - Angry protesters burned tires on the streets of Mozambique’s capital and a TV station said at least one person was killed Thursday, a day after at least four…

5 kidnapped Afghan campaign workers found dead (AP)

August 29th, 2010

AP - An Afghan official says villagers have found the bodies of five kidnapped campaign workers for a parliamentary candidate in the western province of Herat.

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Nigeria: Feared gang leader believed dead, again (AP)

August 25th, 2010

A scramble of power cables in Oshodi district of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, in 2003. Electricity workers in Nigeria on Wednesday launched an indefinite strike over wages, a day ahead of a major speech by President Goodluck Jonathan on reforming the ailing power sector.(AFP/File/Pius Otomi Ekpei)AP - Police believe unknown gunmen killed a Nigerian gang leader accused of helping rig the 2007 election in the nation’s oil-rich and violence-wracked southern delta, authorities said Wednesday, though…

Official: 72 found dead in Mexico may be migrants (AP)

August 25th, 2010

View of weapons seized to drugs traffickers before being destroyed, at the workshops of the Mexican Secretary of Defense in Mexico City, on August 18. Troops uncovered at least 72 bodies, including those of 14 women, on a ranch in northeastern Mexico after a clash with gunmen, the Mexican military said.(AFP/File/Ronaldo Schemidt)AP - A Mexican federal official says a witness has told police that 72 people found dead at a ranch near the U.S. border were migrants.


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43 dead in string of attacks in Iraq (AP)

August 25th, 2010

An Iraqi policeman stands in the ruins of a collapsed building after a bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. A string of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces on Wednesday left several people dead and scores wounded, police and hospital officials said the day after the number of American soldiers in the country fell bellow 50,000.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A string of more than a dozen attacks targeted Iraq’s local government and police forces from one end of the country to the other on Wednesday, killing 43…

1 dead in Mexico shootout on border with El Paso (AP)

August 22nd, 2010

Relatives and friends gather around the coffin of Edelmiro Cavazos, mayor of the tourist town of Santiago, prior to his funeral at a cemetery downtown in the municipality of Santiago, some 30 km (18.6 miles) from Monterrey, August 19, 2010. Mexicans carrying candles and flowers paid tribute on Thursday to the mayor killed by drug hitmen, while officials vowed a tough response to increasingly bold cartels but resisted calls for more troops. REUTERS/Kristian Lopez (MEXICO - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)AP - A gunbattle erupted between Mexican police and gunmen near the Rio Grande on Saturday, killing one person and prompting U.S. authorities to close a highway that runs along…

Mexican mayor found dead 3 days after kidnapping (AP)

August 18th, 2010

A soldier burns seized weapons from drug smugglers at the Secretary of the Defense headquarters in Mexico City, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. Mexico's drug gang violence has surged since President Felipe Calderon intensified the fight against traffickers in late 2006, deploying thousands of troops and federal police to root out cartels from their strongholds. More than 28,000 people have since been killed in the country's drug war. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - The kidnapped mayor of a northern Mexican town was found dead Wednesday, extending a rash of deadly attacks on political figures in an area besieged by drug gang…

127 dead, thousands missing in China landslides (AP)

August 8th, 2010

In this image made from TV footage, buildings collapsed following landslides in Zhouqu, China's Gansu province, on Sunday Aug. 8, 2010. Rubble-strewn floodwaters tore through a remote corner of northwestern China on Sunday, smashing buildings, overturning cars and killing at least 127 people. (AP Photo/CCTV via APTN)  ** TV OUT, CHINA OUT **AP - Rubble-strewn floodwaters tore through a remote corner of northwestern China on Sunday, smashing buildings, overturning cars and killing at least 127 people.


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96 dead, thousands missing in China landslides (AP)

August 8th, 2010

Damaged houses are seen after a rain-triggered landslide hit Shuanghe village in Hanyuan county, Sichuan province, July 27, 2010. Twenty-one people were missing after the landslide, triggered by recent torrential rains, hit Shuanghe village on Tuesday morning, Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINAAP - Landslides and flooding triggered by heavy rain killed at least 96 people and left an estimated 2,000 missing Sunday in the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu, as destruction…