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The death toll from a crowded ferry capsizing in Lake Victoria rises sharply to 207, as rescue workers find a lucky survivor. Although hopes were fading of finding any more survivors by day three of the search effort, workers rescued an engineer who had managed to … Read more via PressTV...

Russian diplomats held secret talks in London last year with people close to Julian Assange to assess whether they could help him flee the UK, the Guardian has learned. A tentative plan was devised that would have seen the WikiLeaks founder smuggled out of … Read more via More Top Stories –...

China summoned the US ambassador on Saturday to lodge an official protest over sanctions imposed by the United States against … Read more via Capital News – https://ift.tt/2PVMs72 Get more World News

The death toll from a crowded ferry capsizing in Lake Victoria rose sharply to 207 Saturday, a Tanzanian minister said, as rescue workers found a lucky survivor. Public radio quoted the transport minister as updating the number of dead from 170 earlier in the day..... Read more via...