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China cruise ship relatives gather at disaster site
AFP, Published on 04/06/2015
» JIANLI (CHINA) - Hundreds of relatives of passengers missing after their cruise ship capsized in central China gathered at the disaster site on Thursday, as rescuers breached the hull in a last-ditch search for more than 400 people believed trapped inside.
Angry China families demand access to stricken boat
AFP, Published on 03/06/2015
» SHANGHAI - Dozens of angry relatives of those missing in China's cruise ship disaster clashed with authorities in Shanghai Wednesday, demanding answers and to be taken to the scene of the tragedy on the banks of the Yangtze.
River sinking: More than 400 still missing as more survivors found (Updated)
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 02/06/2015
» Six people have been pulled alive from the capsized Chinese cruise ship, but hopes are fading for finding most of the more than 400 people still missing. The cruise ship suddenly capsized and sank during a "catastrophic" storm on the Yangtze River.
EU has 'no more excuses' on migrants after Mediterranean tragedy
AFP, Published on 20/04/2015
» LUXEMBOURG - EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said Monday the bloc had "no more excuses" not to act after the latest migrant disaster in the Mediterranean and demanded "immediate" action.
Yachting is just plain sailing
Life, Peerawat Jariyasombat, Published on 12/03/2015
» Groups of school kids gather around small sailing boats, listening to their instructors and then having a go at using the tiller. They duck and move to the other side of the boat while the boom swings over their heads. Giggles fill the air.
Ferry capsizes in Bangladesh
Published on 22/02/2015
» DHAKA — At least 100 people have gone missing after a river ferry capsized in western Bangladesh, officials said on Sunday.
Blind sailors 'see the sea' on Polish waters
AFP, Published on 25/09/2014
» SIEMIANOWKA (POLAND) - Walentyna Koziol was born with impaired vision. Fast-forward half a century and she is sailing a yacht through the mist on a lake in eastern Poland, without a care in the world.
Conspiracy claims over dinghy death of Japan high-flyer
AFP, Published on 03/09/2014
» TOKYO - Japan's cyberspace lit up with talk of conspiracy Wednesday when officials closed the case on the drowning at sea of a high-flying government economist who was apparently trying to smuggle himself home undetected from South Korea.
Italy's wrecked cruise ship prepares to dock in Genoa
AFP, Published on 27/07/2014
» GENOA (ITALY) - The wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner made its final approach Sunday to the Italian port of Genoa, where the mammoth carcass is being towed for scrap after its fatal capsize two and a half years ago.
100 days on, thousands mourn S. Korean ferry victims
AFP, Published on 25/07/2014
» SEOUL - Thousands of people rallied in Seoul on Thursday, 100 days after South Korea's ferry disaster, to push for an independent inquiry into the tragedy that claimed around 300 lives, most of them students.