Hopes fade for 14 missing seamen in SKorea: Coast Guard
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South Korea Wednesday resumed an air and sea search for 14 seamen missing after their freighter sank but officials said it would be a miracle to find anyone still alive.
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STOCKHOLM  - The Swedish government said it feared that many of the 1,500 Swedish tourists in Thailand who are still unaccounted for after giant tidal waves struck Asian coastlines may be dead.
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U.S. and South Korean officials  expressed disappointment on Saturday at the progress made  during four days of tough trade negotiations aimed at clinching  a proposed free trade agreement between the two countries.
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The apparent wreckage of a cargo ship that disappeared along with 14 sailors has been found, but lay too deep in the water to raise immediately, South Korean officials said Wednesday. Meanwhile, the search continued for the missing.
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At least 150 Vietnamese fishermen were missing at sea and another 28 were found dead after getting caught in Typhoon Chanchu, a border official said Friday.
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Four people believed to have fled North Korea arrived at a port in northern Japan in a small boat on Saturday and later told police they want to go to South Korea, Kyodo news agency reported.
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The Coast Guard continues searching for six missing crewmembers from the 738-foot Malaysian-flagged freighter Selendang Ayu who were lost when a Jayhawk rescue helicopter crashed Wednesday night.
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Six people were missing after a U.S.  Coast Guard helicopter crashed into the stormy Bering Sea after  plucking the last remaining crew members from a disabled  Malaysian cargo vessel, officials said on Thursday.
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PHNOM CHAK, Cambodia  - Bad weather and difficult terrain was hampering the search on Tuesday for 22 people, including 13 Koreans and three Czechs, on a plane that crashed in Cambodia, civil aviation safety chief Keo Sivorn said.
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Algerian rescue services were searching on Sunday for about 20 sailors missing after severe storms sank one ship and drove two aground near Algiers port, killing three seamen.
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STOCKHOLM  - Half a world away from the havoc of the tidal waves in Asia, Scandinavians desperate for information about loved ones gone missing while on holiday scoured the Internet for news amid reports that thousands of them may have perished.
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Fourteen seamen were missing Tuesday after a ship carrying nitric acid sank off the coast of South Korea in rough seas, maritime police said, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
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Four North Koreans who arrived by boat at a Japanese port two weeks ago left Japan on Saturday for South Korea, their desired destination, police said.
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At least 28 Vietnamese fishermen were dead and nearly 300 reported missing, three days after powerful Typhoon Chanchu sank 11 ships in the South China Sea, officials said.
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With thousands of decomposing bodies piled up in a temporary morgue on Thailand's southern coast, hope was fading Saturday that any of more than 6,000 foreigners still missing would be found alive.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Kagoshima, Japan, 13 September: The Japanese and South Korean coast guards held a joint sea rescue exercise Wednesday [13 September] in the East China Sea.
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One Indian sailor died and 25 people were missing off Japan's Pacific coast after two ships ran aground in high winds and heavy seas, a Coast Guard official said on Saturday.