37 dead in Ukraine cold spell

Ukrainian health officials say 37 people have died from the severe cold spell that hit the country this month. Temperatures have dropped as low as 2 degrees F. The Health Ministry said Tuesday...

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16 dead, 14 missing due to flash floods and mudslides in Sri Lanka

A local official said that the torrential downpours, which claimed the lives of 16 people, started to ease on Wednesday. However, more than 175,000 families remain homeless as a number of towns...

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9 missing after boat capsizes in E China

Search is continuing for nine people who have been missing after their boat capsized on Monday morning in seas off east China's Shandong Province, local authorities said Wednesday. The fishing boat...

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Mexico prison clash leaves 17 dead

Eleven prisoners and six guards were killed Tuesday in armed clashes at a prison in northern Mexico that erupted when inmates attempted a jailbreak, state security officials said. The fighting broke...

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27 people riding atop truck killed in traffic crash in northwest Nigeria

A cattle truck veered out of control in Nigeria's northwest Sokoto state and plunged into a river, killing 27 men who were also on board, authorities said on Tuesday. The accident occurred late on...

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Nine bodies found after boat capsize in Malaysia

At least nine bodies, including of a pregnant woman, were recovered from the water off a Malaysian town after a boat carrying around 16 undocumented Indonesian immigrants capsized, Xinhua reported...

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