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| May. 4 |
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Sudan gold mine rescue called off. Darfur
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Egypt court sentences 3 in deadly train accident
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| May. 2 |
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Somalia famine 'killed 260,000' Nearly 260,000 people died during the famine that hit Somalia from 2010 to 2012. Half of them were children under the age of five
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Darfur gold miners feared dead
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Saudi Sars-like virus 'kills five'. Saudi Arabia
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| Mar.13 |
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Death toll climbs from new SARS-like virus |
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| Mar.11 |
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Libya alcohol poisoning kills 51 |
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| Feb.28 |
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Five die in Iraq Tigris boat sinking |
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| Feb.27 |
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Egypt balloon explosion probe can take 2 weeks |
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| Feb.26 |
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Egypt suspends Luxor balloon flights
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Tourists killed as hot air balloon explodes in Egypt
Map of Luxor Egypt Hot air balloon exploded over the city of Luxor. Eighteen tourists were killed when the balloon dropped almost 300 meters
| British, French, Hong Kong and Japanese nationals are among 19 tourists killed
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| Jan.29 |
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Brahimi warns horror is 'unprecedented'. UN Security Council
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| Jan.16 |
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Block of flats collapses in Alexandria |
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| Jan.14 |
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Cairo military train derailment 'kills 17'
A military train carrying recruits has derailed south of Egypt's capital Cairo, killing at least 17 people and injuring another 103, officials...
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| Jan.13 |
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Syrians face 'staggering' crisis |
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| Jan.11 |
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Thirteen killed in Bahrain fire |
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| Dec.20 |
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At least 55 people drowned or missing |
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| Nov.17 |
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Egypt bus-train crash kills 50 children
Fifty children aged four to six years old and the driver of the school bus they were on were killed when their vehicle was hit by a train in...
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| Nov.8 |
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Red Cross 'cannot cope' in Syria |
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| Oct.31 |
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Fire at Saudi wedding kills 25 |
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| Oct.7 |
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Sudanese military plane crashes |
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| Sep.25 |
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New SARS-like virus poses medical mystery |
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| Sep.20 |
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Syrian helicopter 'clipped plane'
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| Sep.8 |
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Fighting cuts Aleppo water supply |
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| May.28 |
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Shopping mall fire in Doha, kills 19. Qatar
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| Mar.1 |
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Red Cross to enter Homs district. Syria
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| Feb.24 |
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Red Cross starts Homs evacuation |
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| Jan.12 |
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ICRC suspends Somalia aid distribution |
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| Sep.19 |
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NTC: Humanitarian disaster in Bani Walid |
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| Sep.5 |
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Somalia famine 'may kill 750,000' As many as 750,000 people could die as Somalia's drought worsens in the coming months, the UN has warned, declaring a famine in a new area
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| Aug.24 |
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Libya's hospitals flooded with victims |
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| Aug.3 |
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Somalia's famine reaches into Mogadishu
Three more regions of Somalia have now been struck by famine, including the capital, Mogadishu, the United Nations announced
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| Jul.26 |
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Plane crash kills 78 in Morocco
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| Jul.22 |
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Militants: Aid ban in Somalia still in place |
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| Jul.20 |
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US to aid Islamist Somali areas |
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| Jul.19 |
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UN to declare famine in Somalia| The United Nations is set to declare a famine in parts of Somalia as it suffers the worst drought in more than half a century | |
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| Jul.5 |
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Red Sea boat sinking 'kills 197'. Sudan
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| Mar.28 |
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Ammo factory blast kills at least 121. Yemen
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| Feb.27 |
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Rescue missions sent to Libyan desert |
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| Jan.3 |
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80 African migrants feared drowned. Yemen
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| Dec.26 |
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U.S. tourists killed in Egypt bus crash |
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| Dec.12 |
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Fierce storms strike Middle East Israel: The storms have sunk a ship off the Israeli coast, closed ports and disrupted shipping in the Suez Canal
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| Dec.5 |
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Egypt shark attack kills German. Sinai
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| May.13 |
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70 from Holland died in Libya crash |
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| May.12 |
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Child is sole Libya jet crash survivor
Map of Tripoli Libya 92 passengers and 11 crew members were killed. An 8-year-old boy who is a Dutch citizen is the sole survivor of a deadly Afriqiyah Airways crash
| Ruben van Assouw, suffered multiple fractures in his lower limbs and underwent an operation at Al Khadra Hospital in Tripoli
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| Mar.30 |
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Missing sheikh found dead after crash |
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| Mar.26 |
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Head of Abu Dhabi sovereign fund missing |
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| Feb.19 |
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Minaret collapse kills 41
Map of Meknes Morocco Morocco: A 400-year-old minaret in Bab Berdieyinn mosque collapsed on worshipers, killing 36 and injuring 71 in the middle of prayers
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| Jan.25 |
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Bodies found after plane crash |
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| Jan.24 |
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Ethiopian airliner crashes; 90 on board
Lebanon: The Boeing 737-800 was thought to have gone down after takeoff from Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut at 2:27 a.m.
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| Dec.21 |
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UN ends search for ship survivors |
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| Nov.21 |
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Flu kills four pilgrims |
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| Aug.28 |
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Crash flight recorder found |
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| Jul.5 |
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Flight recorders located from Yemen crash |
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| Jul.1 |
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Teen plane survivor recovers in hospital |
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France reverses 'black box' claim |
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| Jun.30 |
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Child found alive after Indian Ocean plane crash
Comoros: A massive rescue effort was under way after a young child was found among the wreckage of a downed Yemeni jet off the coast of Comoros
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France 'banned Yemen crash plane' |
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| Jun.29 |
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Yemeni plane crashes with 154 aboard
Map of Comoros Comoros: A Yemeni jetliner en route to Moroni has crashed in the Indian Ocean an hour before reaching its destination, Moroni, the capital of Comoros
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| May.24 |
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11 killed at music festival stampede |
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| Mar.31 |
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Hundreds feared drowned off Libya
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| Mar.30 |
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Fishing boats sink off Libyan coast |
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| Mar.24 |
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U.N.: One million people at risk in Darfur |
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| Mar.20 |
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US navy vessels collide in Gulf |
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| Jan.19 |
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Gaza 'looks like earthquake zone' |
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| Jan.5 |
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Doctor in Gaza: Patients lying everywhere |
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| Nov.15 |
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U.N. agency in Gaza runs out of food |
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| Oct.4 |
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Helicopters collide while landing |
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| Sep.17 |
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7 U.S. soldiers die in copter crash |
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| Sep.6 |
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Hundreds feared trapped in rockslide |
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| Jun.10 |
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28 dead as fire engulfs plane
Sudan: A jetliner burst into flames after landing. A defect the Sudan Airways plane caused it to catch fire as it touched down. Some passengers sur...
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| Feb.1 |
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Third undersea Internet cable cut United Arab Emirates: A cable was cut off the emirate of Duba, the third loss of a line carrying Internet and telephone traffic in three days.
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| Jan.20 |
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Gaza City plunged into darkness
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| Nov.20 |
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Pipeline death toll at 40 |
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| Nov.8 |
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Bridge collapses in Dubai marina |
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| Sep.30 |
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'Catastrophic' volcano eruption off Yemen
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| Aug.22 |
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Helicopter crash kills 14 U.S. soldiers. Northern Iraq
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| Jul.29 |
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Third of Iraqis 'need urgent aid' |
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| Jun.7 |
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Cyclone pounds Mideast oil region. Oman
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| Jan.9 |
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Plane crash kills 30 Turkish workers |
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| Aug.20 |
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Train crash kills 57 |
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| May.6 |
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UK troops attacked after copter crash Southern Iraq: Crowds of Iraqis attacked troops with rocks and Molotov cocktail after a military helicopter crashed
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| Apr.6 |
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69 dead as ferry capsizes. Djibouti
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| Mar.30 |
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Ferry sinks carrying 150 people. Bahrain
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| Feb.4 |
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Officials: Fire made ferry sink |
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| Feb.3 |
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Hopes dim for ferry missing. Egypt
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Ship with 1,400 sinks in Red Sea| Egypt: An aging passenger ferry loaded to near capacity with dozens of vehicles sank. 100 survivors had been rescued | |
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| Jan.12 |
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Hajj stampede kills at least 345
Map of Mecca Saudi Arabia| Mecca: People have been killed during a symbolic stoning ritual at the annual pilgrimage near Mecca | |
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| Jan.8 |
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U.S. helicopter crash kills 12 |
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| Jan.5 |
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76 dead in Mecca hotel collapse
A hotel in Islam's holiest city collapsed as millions of Muslims arrived for the annual Hajj pilgrimage
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| Dec.31 |
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Landslide toll climbs to 56 |
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| Aug.31 |
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1,000 dead in stampede Baghdad: 323 others injured on a bridge after a massive Shiite religious commemoration erupted into panic
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| Jul.31 |
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VP Garang 'dies in crash'. Sudan
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| Apr.21 |
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6 Americans among 11 dead in copter crash. Iraq
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| Jan.26 |
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31 Marines killed in chopper crash Western Iraq: 5 troops in other incidents. Number of U.S. troops killed today is 36, the deadliest day for U.S. since the start of the war
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| Oct.17 |
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Report: Up to 70,000 dead in Darfur The WHO: Up to 70,000 refugees have died since March 1 due to various causes, including diseases and malnutrition
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| Oct.4 |
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Many drown as migrant ship sinks |
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| Sep.11 |
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Top cleric feared killed in helicopter crash |
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| Jun.9 |
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Children dying of hunger |
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| Feb.23 |
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Quake kills 600. Morocco
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| Feb.1 |
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Hajj stampede: 244 pilgrims dead |
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| Jan.26 |
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Rescuers trapped in Cairo collapse |
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| Jan.2 |
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Airliner crashes into Red Sea. Egypt
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| Sep.15 |
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Prison fire kills 67 inmates |
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| Aug.16 |
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Fire halts flow of oil |
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| Jul.7 |
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Plane crash kills 115 |
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| May.23 |
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Child pulled from quake rubble |
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| May.21 |
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More than 2,000 killed in 6.7 quake Algeria: 51,000 homeless and 8,626 injured. Survivors accused the government of turning a blind eye to shoddy construction
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| Mar.25 |
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Sandstorms slow Baghdad advance |
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| Mar.6 |
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Plane crashes, killing 102 |
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| Nov.1 |
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Jail fire kills 49 |
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| Oct.6 |
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French tanker explodes. Yemen
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| May.28 |
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Libya offers $2.7bn to Lockerbie families |
|
| Feb.20 |
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Train inferno kills 350 |
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| Dec.14 |
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Bus crash kills 52 |
|
| Nov.21 |
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4 children die in explosion |
|
| Nov.10 |
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Hundreds dead in floods |
|
| Oct.22 |
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Hundreds of refugees drown |
|
| Mar.16 |
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3 die as jet hijack ends |
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| Mar.5 |
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Hajj crush kills pilgrims |
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| 2013 |
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| Jan.11 |
Thirteen killed in Bahrain fire |
| 2012 |
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| Oct.31 |
Fire at Saudi wedding kills 25 |
|
| May.28 |
Shopping mall fire in Doha, kills 19. Qatar
| 2007 |
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| Nov.20 |
Pipeline death toll at 40 |
| 2006 |
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| Feb.4 |
Officials: Fire made ferry sink |
| 2003 |
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| Sep.15 |
Prison fire kills 67 inmates |
|
| Aug.16 |
Fire halts flow of oil |
| 2002 |
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| Nov.1 |
Jail fire kills 49 |
|
| Feb.20 |
Train inferno kills 350 |
|
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| 2005 |
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| Jan.26 |
31 Marines killed in chopper crash Western Iraq: 5 troops in other incidents. Number of U.S. troops killed today is 36, the deadliest day for U.S. since the start of the war
|
|
| 2004 |
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| Feb.23 |
Quake kills 600. Morocco
| 2003 |
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| May.21 |
More than 2,000 killed in 6.7 quake Algeria: 51,000 homeless and 8,626 injured. Survivors accused the government of turning a blind eye to shoddy construction
|
|
| 2012 |
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| Nov.17 |
Egypt bus-train crash kills 50 children
Fifty children aged four to six years old and the driver of the school bus they were on were killed when their vehicle was hit by a train in...
| 2010 |
|
| Dec.26 |
U.S. tourists killed in Egypt bus crash |
| 2001 |
|
| Dec.14 |
Bus crash kills 52 |
|
|
| 2013 |
|
| May. 2 |
Saudi Sars-like virus 'kills five'. Saudi Arabia
|
| Mar.13 |
Death toll climbs from new SARS-like virus |
| 2012 |
|
| Sep.25 |
New SARS-like virus poses medical mystery |
| 2011 |
|
| Aug.24 |
Libya's hospitals flooded with victims |
| 2009 |
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| Nov.21 |
Flu kills four pilgrims |
|
| Jan.5 |
Doctor in Gaza: Patients lying everywhere |
|
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| 2013 |
|
| Feb.28 |
Five die in Iraq Tigris boat sinking |
| 2012 |
|
| Dec.20 |
At least 55 people drowned or missing |
| 2011 |
|
| Jul.5 |
Red Sea boat sinking 'kills 197'. Sudan
|
| Jan.3 |
80 African migrants feared drowned. Yemen
| 2010 |
|
| Dec.5 |
Egypt shark attack kills German. Sinai
| 2009 |
|
| Dec.21 |
UN ends search for ship survivors |
|
| Mar.31 |
Hundreds feared drowned off Libya
|
| Mar.30 |
Fishing boats sink off Libyan coast |
|
| Mar.20 |
US navy vessels collide in Gulf |
| 2006 |
|
| Apr.6 |
69 dead as ferry capsizes. Djibouti
|
| Mar.30 |
Ferry sinks carrying 150 people. Bahrain
|
| Feb.3 |
Ship with 1,400 sinks in Red Sea| Egypt: An aging passenger ferry loaded to near capacity with dozens of vehicles sank. 100 survivors had been rescued | |
| 2004 |
|
| Oct.4 |
Many drown as migrant ship sinks |
| 2002 |
|
| Oct.6 |
French tanker explodes. Yemen
| 2001 |
|
| Oct.22 |
Hundreds of refugees drown |
|
|
| 2008 |
|
| Feb.1 |
Third undersea Internet cable cut United Arab Emirates: A cable was cut off the emirate of Duba, the third loss of a line carrying Internet and telephone traffic in three days.
|
| Jan.20 |
Gaza City plunged into darkness
|
|
| 2007 |
|
| Sep.30 |
'Catastrophic' volcano eruption off Yemen
|
|
| 2013 |
|
| May. 4 |
Sudan gold mine rescue called off. Darfur
|
| May. 2 |
Darfur gold miners feared dead
|
|
| 2010 |
|
| Dec.12 |
Fierce storms strike Middle East Israel: The storms have sunk a ship off the Israeli coast, closed ports and disrupted shipping in the Suez Canal
| 2007 |
|
| Jun.7 |
Cyclone pounds Mideast oil region. Oman
| 2003 |
|
| Mar.25 |
Sandstorms slow Baghdad advance |
|
|
| 2008 |
|
| Sep.6 |
Hundreds feared trapped in rockslide |
| 2005 |
|
| Dec.31 |
Landslide toll climbs to 56 |
|
|
| 2001 |
|
| Nov.10 |
Hundreds dead in floods |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| May.24 |
11 killed at music festival stampede |
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.12 |
Hajj stampede kills at least 345
Map of Mecca Saudi Arabia| Mecca: People have been killed during a symbolic stoning ritual at the annual pilgrimage near Mecca | |
| 2005 |
|
| Aug.31 |
1,000 dead in stampede Baghdad: 323 others injured on a bridge after a massive Shiite religious commemoration erupted into panic
| 2004 |
|
| Feb.1 |
Hajj stampede: 244 pilgrims dead |
| 2001 |
|
| Mar.5 |
Hajj crush kills pilgrims |
|
|
| 2013 |
|
| Feb.27 |
Egypt balloon explosion probe can take 2 weeks |
|
| Feb.26 |
Egypt suspends Luxor balloon flights
|
| Feb.26 |
Tourists killed as hot air balloon explodes in Egypt
Map of Luxor Egypt Hot air balloon exploded over the city of Luxor. Eighteen tourists were killed when the balloon dropped almost 300 meters
| British, French, Hong Kong and Japanese nationals are among 19 tourists killed
|
| |
| 2012 |
|
| Oct.7 |
Sudanese military plane crashes |
|
| Sep.20 |
Syrian helicopter 'clipped plane'
| 2011 |
|
| Jul.26 |
Plane crash kills 78 in Morocco
| 2010 |
|
| May.13 |
70 from Holland died in Libya crash |
|
| May.12 |
Child is sole Libya jet crash survivor
Map of Tripoli Libya 92 passengers and 11 crew members were killed. An 8-year-old boy who is a Dutch citizen is the sole survivor of a deadly Afriqiyah Airways crash
| Ruben van Assouw, suffered multiple fractures in his lower limbs and underwent an operation at Al Khadra Hospital in Tripoli
|
| |
|
| Mar.30 |
Missing sheikh found dead after crash |
|
| Mar.26 |
Head of Abu Dhabi sovereign fund missing |
|
| Jan.25 |
Bodies found after plane crash |
|
| Jan.24 |
Ethiopian airliner crashes; 90 on board
Lebanon: The Boeing 737-800 was thought to have gone down after takeoff from Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut at 2:27 a.m.
| 2009 |
|
| Aug.28 |
Crash flight recorder found |
|
| Jul.5 |
Flight recorders located from Yemen crash |
|
| Jul.1 |
Teen plane survivor recovers in hospital |
|
| Jul.1 |
France reverses 'black box' claim |
|
| Jun.30 |
Child found alive after Indian Ocean plane crash
Comoros: A massive rescue effort was under way after a young child was found among the wreckage of a downed Yemeni jet off the coast of Comoros
|
| Jun.30 |
France 'banned Yemen crash plane' |
|
| Jun.29 |
Yemeni plane crashes with 154 aboard
Map of Comoros Comoros: A Yemeni jetliner en route to Moroni has crashed in the Indian Ocean an hour before reaching its destination, Moroni, the capital of Comoros
| 2008 |
|
| Oct.4 |
Helicopters collide while landing |
|
| Sep.17 |
7 U.S. soldiers die in copter crash |
|
| Jun.10 |
28 dead as fire engulfs plane
Sudan: A jetliner burst into flames after landing. A defect the Sudan Airways plane caused it to catch fire as it touched down. Some passengers sur...
| 2007 |
|
| Aug.22 |
Helicopter crash kills 14 U.S. soldiers. Northern Iraq
|
| Jan.9 |
Plane crash kills 30 Turkish workers |
| 2006 |
|
| May.6 |
UK troops attacked after copter crash Southern Iraq: Crowds of Iraqis attacked troops with rocks and Molotov cocktail after a military helicopter crashed
|
| Jan.8 |
U.S. helicopter crash kills 12 |
| 2005 |
|
| Jul.31 |
VP Garang 'dies in crash'. Sudan
|
| Apr.21 |
6 Americans among 11 dead in copter crash. Iraq
| 2004 |
|
| Sep.11 |
Top cleric feared killed in helicopter crash |
|
| Jan.2 |
Airliner crashes into Red Sea. Egypt
| 2003 |
|
| Jul.7 |
Plane crash kills 115 |
|
| Mar.6 |
Plane crashes, killing 102 |
| 2002 |
|
| May.28 |
Libya offers $2.7bn to Lockerbie families |
| 2001 |
|
| Mar.16 |
3 die as jet hijack ends |
|
|
| 2013 |
|
| May. 2 |
Somalia famine 'killed 260,000' Nearly 260,000 people died during the famine that hit Somalia from 2010 to 2012. Half of them were children under the age of five
| 2011 |
|
| Sep.5 |
Somalia famine 'may kill 750,000' As many as 750,000 people could die as Somalia's drought worsens in the coming months, the UN has warned, declaring a famine in a new area
|
| Aug.3 |
Somalia's famine reaches into Mogadishu
Three more regions of Somalia have now been struck by famine, including the capital, Mogadishu, the United Nations announced
|
| Jul.22 |
Militants: Aid ban in Somalia still in place |
|
| Jul.20 |
US to aid Islamist Somali areas |
|
| Jul.19 |
UN to declare famine in Somalia| The United Nations is set to declare a famine in parts of Somalia as it suffers the worst drought in more than half a century | |
| 2009 |
|
| Mar.24 |
U.N.: One million people at risk in Darfur |
| 2008 |
|
| Nov.15 |
U.N. agency in Gaza runs out of food |
| 2004 |
|
| Jun.9 |
Children dying of hunger |
|
|
| 2013 |
|
| Jan.16 |
Block of flats collapses in Alexandria |
| 2010 |
|
| Feb.19 |
Minaret collapse kills 41
Map of Meknes Morocco Morocco: A 400-year-old minaret in Bab Berdieyinn mosque collapsed on worshipers, killing 36 and injuring 71 in the middle of prayers
| 2007 |
|
| Nov.8 |
Bridge collapses in Dubai marina |
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.5 |
76 dead in Mecca hotel collapse
A hotel in Islam's holiest city collapsed as millions of Muslims arrived for the annual Hajj pilgrimage
| 2004 |
|
| Jan.26 |
Rescuers trapped in Cairo collapse |
|
|
| 2004 |
|
| Oct.17 |
Report: Up to 70,000 dead in Darfur The WHO: Up to 70,000 refugees have died since March 1 due to various causes, including diseases and malnutrition
|
|
| 2013 |
|
| May. 4 |
Egypt court sentences 3 in deadly train accident
|
| Jan.14 |
Cairo military train derailment 'kills 17'
A military train carrying recruits has derailed south of Egypt's capital Cairo, killing at least 17 people and injuring another 103, officials...
| 2006 |
|
| Aug.20 |
Train crash kills 57 |
|
|
| 2013 |
|
| Mar.11 |
Libya alcohol poisoning kills 51 |
|
|
| 2012 |
|
| Mar.1 |
Red Cross to enter Homs district. Syria
|
| Feb.24 |
Red Cross starts Homs evacuation |
|
| Jan.12 |
ICRC suspends Somalia aid distribution |
| 2011 |
|
| Feb.27 |
Rescue missions sent to Libyan desert |
| 2006 |
|
| Feb.3 |
Hopes dim for ferry missing. Egypt
| 2003 |
|
| May.23 |
Child pulled from quake rubble |
|
|
| 2011 |
|
| Mar.28 |
Ammo factory blast kills at least 121. Yemen
| 2001 |
|
| Nov.21 |
4 children die in explosion |