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Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images (LONDON) — Authorities in Kenya have rescued dozens of tourists and hotel staff who were left stranded in Kenya’s famed Maasai Mara Game Reserve after heavy rains caused the Telek River to burst its banks. Kenya’s Maasai Mara Game Reserve — one of Africa’s greatest wildlife reserves […]

Getty Images – STOCK (LONDON) — Days of torrential rain have triggered widespread flooding across parts of Kenya, turning roads into raging rivers and claiming dozens of lives. Half of Kenya’s 47 counties have been affected by the flooding, which has killed at least 32 people and displaced more than 40,000 others from their homes, […]

pop_jop/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Sixty-three people are presumed dead after a boat carrying about 100 people from Senegal sank near Cabo Verde, an island about 600 kilometers west of Senegal in the Atlantic Ocean, the U.N. International Organization of Migration told ABC News in a statement Wednesday. Seven people were confirmed dead, and 56 […]

Russian Emergency Ministry/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A gas station in the Russian town of Makhachkala, in the southern region of Dagestan, exploded on Monday evening, killing at least 25 and injuring dozens of others, local officials said. Sixty-six people were being treated for injuries at hospitals, with 10 in serious condition, the […]

Billel Bensalem/APP/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 34 people have died and thousands more have been forced to evacuate as authorities battle raging wildfires in Northern Algeria, Algeria’s Interior Ministry announced. At least 8,000 firefighters, 529 trucks and 10 mobile columns and aerial support teams are working to fight the wildfires — […]

George Karbus Photography/Getty Images (LONDON) —  A cruise line has apologized to over 1,000 of its passengers after one of their ships arrived at port in the middle of a whale hunt where dozens of the marine mammals were being slaughtered. Ambassador Cruise Lines confirmed on Thursday that the arrival of their ship Ambition in […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — Dozens of illegal miners have safely exited an underground gold mine shaft in the Ashanti region of Ghana after they were feared trapped. Several illegal miners are reported to have entered AngloGold Ltd.’s Obuasi Mines in Anwiam, Ashanti Region, in search of gold deposits. However, the miners found themselves unable to […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An ongoing investigation into a suspected religious cult in southeastern Kenya whose followers were allegedly told to starve themselves has led to the discovery of dozens of bodies. The death toll reached 90 on Tuesday after Kenyan police exhumed more remains from mass graves on an 800-acre forest in the […]

fhm/Getty Images (LONDON) — One person is dead and at least 30 people have been “seriously injured” after a passenger train carrying at least 50 people derailed following a collision with construction equipment in the Netherlands. The accident happened near Voorschoten, a village between The Hague and Amsterdam, at approximately 3:30 a.m. local time on […]

Perry Gerenday/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A fire broke out at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, killing at least 39 people, officials said in a statement. The fire started at about 10 p.m. on Monday at the Instituto Nacional de Migración, Mexico’s Institute of Migration said early Tuesday. The center […]