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QALYOUB, Egypt (Reuters) - A train crash killed 58 people and injured scores more in a Nile Delta town north of Cairo on Monday in Egypt's worst rail disaster in four years.

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QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Eight soldiers were killed and 23 wounded in a fierce battle with tribal militants in Pakistan's troubled southwest, the military said on Friday, while a tribal politician said dozens of tribesmen died.

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ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Aid workers rushed emergency supplies Friday to thousands of people who lost their homes when a tropical cyclone hit Madagascar and killed at least 58.

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KATHMANDU, Nepal (Reuters) - Maoist rebels killed at least 58 people, most of them policemen, when they overran a town in western Nepal in the second major attack in as many days, a government official said Monday.

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MACHAKOS, Kenya, March 26 (Reuters) - Fifty-eight teenaged boys were burned to death early on Monday when Kenya's deadliest fire in recent times engulfed their boarding school dormitory in what police said was a suspected case of arson.

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ANTALYA, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish rescuers Tuesday ruled out finding any of the 50 people still missing 24 hours after a cargo vessel carrying illegal migrants hit rocks off Turkey's Mediterranean cost, killing at least eight people.

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SAN VICENTE, El Salvador(Reuters) - The death toll from a mysterious alcohol-poisoning epidemic in El Salvador rose to 58 by Monday, with authorities saying methanol was the likely cause. Litzardo Rivas, spokesman of the state prosecutor's office in the central city of San Vicente, 38 miles east of the capital San Salvador, said 34 people died in the city, eight died in the nearby municipality of La Paz, nine in the district of Cabanas and three in the town of Cuscatlan.

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LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested a Chinese man and woman Friday in connection with the deaths of 58 illegal Chinese immigrants who were found suffocated in a truck taking them to England.

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NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- A severe earthquake struck a seismic hot zone in India's Himalayan foothills today, causing massive landslides and killing at least 58 people, officials said. It was the strongest earthquake this century in the quake-prone mountains, with a magnitude of 6.8 and lasting nearly 40 seconds, India's seismological department said, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.