Some Maldivians Forced to Sleep in Boats
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Residents of this low-lying atoll are being forced to seek refuge on the sea more than a week after it rose up and destroyed their homes.
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The bodies of three people, including a child, washed ashore in the Philippines on Friday and divers saw many corpses still trapped inside a capsized ferry, army officials said.
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The bodies of two dozen people washed ashore Friday in southern Mexico after emergency officials received reports that a boat carrying Central American migrants capsized in the Pacific, officials said.
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A boat probably sank off Skye with the loss of two crewmen because one of them fell asleep, a report says.
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Raging flood waters killed at least nine people, including five sleeping children, overnight as a third week of heavy rains pounded southern Somalia, bringing the death toll to at least 89.
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MEXICO CITY - The bodies of two dozen people washed ashore yesterday in southern Mexico after emergency officials received reports that a boat carrying Central American migrants capsized in the Pacific. Officials were searching for more victims off San Francisco del Mar, west of Mexico's border with Guatemala. Officials said they believed 26 people were aboard the small boat, which ...
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Pyres of victims who were killed by tidal waves burn on the beach at Alappad, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004.
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About 200 African would-be immigrants are dead or missing after two boats they were travelling in sank off the coast of Yemen on the weekend, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said Tuesday.
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African migrants whose small boat was intercepted Saturday off the coast of Sicily said eight people died during their grueling, 10-day trip, the third deadly sea journey by migrants trying to reach Italy in less than a month.
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QANDIL MOUNTAIN RANGE, Iraq -- Sunrise came to the women's camp in shafts of white light through woven roofs, but Aristan Manzur slept past 10. She had a fever again, and fluid blocked the air in her lungs.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Western holidaymakers -- especially Scandinavians -- bore the brunt of deadly tidal waves that hit Thailand, officials said Wednesday, as rescuers continued the horrific task of retrieving and identifying corpses.
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Stranded passengers from the devastated towns of Real and Infanta rush to board an outrigger boat December 6. Food and water shortage forced residents to flee to other province and Manila as roads to Real and other towns destroyed by flash floods and
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At least 10 people were killed when a boat carrying around 100 would-be illegal immigrants sank early in the Mediterranean off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, local authorities said.
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A boat delivers food and water to a ship carrying migrants, anchored off the Mauritanian coast.
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VLADIVOSTOK. Feb 19 (Interfax) - Coast guards in Primorye detained two vessels for violating fishing rules and trespassing the state border on Sunday in the course of the Typhoon 2007 operation.
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Rachia Bakr Mohammad lies under a mosquito net, and her sister tends to her. Two months ago, Mohammad says, she left the confines of this
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Killer tsunamis are coming again, over and over, in the nightmares of children who survived the waves which swept them from their homes or picnics on Malaysia's Penang island.