Estonia ferry deaths mourned
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Estonia, Finland and Sweden mark the 10th anniversary of the Estonia ferry disaster, in which 852 people died.
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AMSTERDAM -- Europeans from Riga to Rome will observe three minutes of silence today to remember the 150,000 people killed by the Asian tsunami and contemplate the millions of other lives devastated by the disaster. EU public buildings will fly flags at half-staff and governments will call for silence at noon. Luxembourg, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, has called ...
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Funerals are held in the Afghan city of Kandahar for the victims of a suicide attack that officials now say killed more than 100 people.
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At least 15 people are killed and more are missing after a ferry sinks off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
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Sweden held a memorial service Monday for victims of Asia's tsunami in an effort to deal with what may be its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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OTTAWA - An injured crewman who was airlifted from a stranded Canadian submarine off the Irish coast has died, Prime Minister Paul Martin told Parliament.
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MOSCOW (CP) - Russia mourned 89 victims of a double air disaster today as debate intensified over whether the two passenger liners could have plunged almost simultaneously from the sky by accident.
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An 11-year-old boy whose death has moved the nation was mourned Thursday in Liverpool, a port city where his violent and seemingly random killing is the latest local tragedy in a history marked by adversity.
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At least 11 people died after a fire on an Indonesian ferry off Jakarta Bay on Thursday, with some desperate passengers hurling themselves off the blazing vessel into the sea, a navy official and a survivor said.
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A sailor is reported to have been killed when a ship with an eleven-member crew, including a Russian citizen, sank in the North Atlantic off the Faeroe Islands on Monday.
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Many among the mourners chanted for justice and blamed the government for their heroine's death. Others jostled to get a last glimpse of the flag-draped coffin. Some simply wept and hugged each other.
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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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Finnish President Tarja Halonen and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Erkki Tuomioja (SDP), have expressed condolences to the family of President Yasser Arafat and to all Palestinians.
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Military officials and family members  attended funeral services on Wednesday for a Canadian naval  officer who died as the result of a fire on a second-hand  submarine that Canada bought from Britain.
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A memorial service is to be held for the crew of the fishing boat Meridian which went down in the North Sea.
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Memorial services are being held to remember the 193 people who lost their lives in the Zeebrugge ferry disaster.
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The first bodies of 52 Swedes killed by the Indian Ocean tsunami came home in flag-draped coffins before dawn Wednesday as sobbing relatives, the royal family and government leaders stood in frigid rain, faced with the grim reality that 1,903 missing Swedes might never be found.