Ferry sinks, killing at least 12
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Twelve people were killed and 36 others are missing after a river ferry capsized Thursday in Linyi County, North China&#39;s Shanxi Province.
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At least 29 people were killed and 340,000 people were driven from their homes after this weekendâs flood.
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A boat carrying 75 people has sunk off the coast of Tunisia, killing many on board.
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Sri Lanka's navy sank 12 Tamil Tiger   craft overnight in a fierce naval battle off the island's   northern tip, the military said on Saturday, adding that it   believed it had killed dozens of rebel fighters.
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More than 12,300 people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless after a powerful undersea earthquake unleashed giant tsunami waves that crashed into the coasts of south and southeast Asia.
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Two boats carrying would-be migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe sank Wednesday between Italy and Libya, leaving five people dead, including a child, Italian officials said. Eleven others were missing and presumed dead.
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At least 60 people drowned at sea off southwest Cameroon at the weekend when a wooden motor boat packed with passengers and cargo capsized on its way to neighboring Nigeria, a local official said on Monday.
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A bomb planted by the Muslim militant group Abu Sayyaf caused the sinking of a Philippine ferry that killed more than 100 people in February, the government said on Monday.
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Rescue workers recovered 12 bodies from the wreckage of a twin-engine plane that crashed into a mountain during bad weather in Angola's central highlands, state media reported Sunday.
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A passenger ferry carrying 294 people collided with a cargo ship on the River Mersey in northwest England on Saturday, but no one was injured, the coast guard said.
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Five youngsters, including four siblings, drowned during a church outing after one became caught in a river&#039;s undertow and the others jumped in to help, authorities said Monday. A sixth youth was rescued and hospitalized.
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Sixteen people died and at least as many were missing after a fire broke out on an Indonesian ferry off Jakarta Bay on Thursday, with some desperate passengers hurling themselves off the blazing vessel into the sea.
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Fourteen people were killed and an unknown number were missing after a boat with a capacity for 150 passengers sank off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, officials said on Sunday.
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At least 12 Indian children die as the boat they are travelling on capsizes in the southern state of Kerala.
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Passengers and non-essential crew were airlifted off a ferry that had been at risk of capsizing in the Irish Sea during a storm on Thursday and later ran aground, coastguards said.
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Twelve people are injured as a crane topples onto the deck of a Royal Navy ship in Portsmouth.
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Two Cubans in a boatload of people being smuggled to the United States drowned last week when their craft capsized off the island's coast, authorities said Thursday. Nine other passengers and two smugglers managed to swim to shore.