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Lebanese rescue teams searched the Mediterranean for survivors on Monday after an overloaded people-smuggling boat capsized while under pursuit by naval forces, with dozens unaccounted for still missing at sea. At least seven people died as a result of the disaster, which occurred late on Saturday and ignited widespread rage just three weeks before 15 May parliamentary elections. The body of a woman was retrieved from the water on Monday morning, bringing to seven the number of confirmed deaths in Lebanon’s worst such disaster in years. “The body of a woman from the Al-Nimr family was recovere…