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BATON ROUGE, La (AP/WAFB) - The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office is monitoring a semi-sunken barge floating loose in the Mississippi River. The barge is one of three that sank Friday afternoon near the U.S. 190 bridge. The U.S. Coast Guard reports they have the barge secured and will monitor...

LUXOR, Egypt - A barge has leaked some 100 tons of gasoline into the Nile River in southern Egypt after it became partially submerged while workers unloaded its cargo. The vessel was docked in Aswan, about 700 miles (1,100 kilometres) south of Cairo, when part of the barge sank below the surface...