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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…

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…

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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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…

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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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…

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…

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…

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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AP - 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…