The death toll from a boat fire and capsizing in Congo earlier this week rose to 148 with more than 100 people still missing, officials said Friday. About 500 passengers were on board.

Fatima Hassouna, a war documentarian who had covered the conflict in Gaza on the ground for 18 months, was killed along with ...

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More than 300 civilians were killed in two days of intense fighting in Sudan’s conflict-wracked Darfur region, the U.N.

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So far, authorities have identified 146 people who died and rescued 189 survivors from the rubble after disaster struck the ...

The death toll from a catastrophic Caribbean nightclub roof collapse is now in the hundreds with two former Major League ...

Other flood-related deaths around the commonwealth include a 9-year-old boy in Franklin County, a 74-year-old woman in Nelson County, a 65-year-old man in Trigg County, a 27-year-old man in McCracken ...