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200 Somalia migrants may have drowned in Mediterranean Sea

Somalia's government said about 200 or more Somalis, many of them teenagers, may have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to cross illegally to Europe, when their boat capsized after leaving the Egyptian shore.

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Somalia urges U.S. to intervene over money transfers cut-off

The Somali government on Sunday called on the U.S. to intervene over the move by the American bank to close accounts of money remittance companies to the Horn of Africa nation.