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(11/06)

TINE, Sudan (Reuters) - Attacks in West Darfur have killed at least 63 people, half of them children, as rebels on Friday accused Khartoum of remobilizing Arab militia after suffering two military defeats on the Sudan-Chad border.


(10/03)

LAMPEDUSA, Italy (Reuters) - Coastguards have found the bodies of 13 African immigrants aboard a small boat off southern Italy, and survivors said on Monday at least 50 more corpses were dumped at sea during a horrific 16-day voyage.


(10/00)

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- The death toll in Uganda from an Ebola outbreak climbed to 63 Wednesday, with 175 cases identified, a health ministry official said. Dr. Samuel Okware, chairman of the National Task Force on Ebola, told reporters the three latest deaths occurred in the past 24 hours, when 10 new cases were also diagnosed.


(12/99)

DHAKA -- A weekend ferry disaster on Bangladesh's southern Meghna river claimed at least 63 lives and scores more were missing, officials said on Monday. The M.L. Falguni capsized and sank on Saturday and officials said there were 200 people aboard at the time.


(9/99)

At least 63 confirmed dead in Buenos Aires air crash // BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina Wednesday began the grim task of identifying more than 60 people killed when an airliner plowed off a runway into heavy traffic in one of the country's worst air disasters.


(5/99)

KINSHASA, May 3 (Reuters) - An Ebola-like haemorrhagic fever has killed at least 63 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, health officials said on Monday. The fever, which causes profuse bleeding like Ebola, surfaced in January near the town of Watsa in the north east of the country, formerly known as Zaire, near the border with Uganda and Sudan.


(11/98)

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Investigators minutely examining the charred ruins of a Swedish dance hall gutted by fire discovered another body Tuesday, raising the death toll to 63. The body was of a 15-year-old girl who had been missing since the fire broke out shortly before midnight Thursday at the upstairs hall in Goteborg, 300 miles southwest of Stockholm.


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