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'Worst in 64 years': Hurricane Florence heads for US
Associated Press, Published on 12/09/2018
» RALEIGH, North Carolina: Hurricane Florence churned Tuesday toward the Eastern Seaboard as a storm of "staggering" size, forcing a million people to evacuate the coast. Many more were left to wonder where they might be safe if days of torrential rains unleash floods from the mountains to the sea.
Beach in ‘The Beach’ goes on 4-month retreat from tourists
Associated Press, Published on 28/03/2018
» Authorities have ordered the temporary closing of the beach made famous by the Leonardo DiCaprio movie "The Beach" to halt environmental damage caused by too many tourists.
Sick or swim: Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio's filth
Associated Press, Published on 31/07/2015
» RIO DE JANEIRO – Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human faeces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.
China rescuers right ship to speed search for missing
Associated Press, Published on 05/06/2015
» JIANLI, CHINA -- Top-deck cabins poked out of the water from a capsized river cruise ship on the Yangtze on Friday after disaster teams righted the vessel to quicken the search for the more than 330 people who are still missing.
Hopes dim for survivors of capsized China cruise ship
Associated Press, Published on 03/06/2015
» JIANLI, CHINA — Hopes dimmed Wednesday for rescuing more than 400 people still trapped in a capsized river cruise ship that overturned in stormy weather, as hundreds of rescuers searched the Yangtze River site in what could become the deadliest Chinese maritime accident in decades.
Survivors yell inside capsized China cruise ship
Associated Press, Published on 02/06/2015
» WUHAN, CHINA — Rescuers pulled six survivors to safety after hearing cries for help Tuesday from inside a capsized cruise ship that went down overnight in a storm on China's Yangtze River with 458 people aboard, most of them elderly, state broadcaster CCTV said.
Overfishing driving slavery on Thailand's seafood boats
Associated Press, Published on 26/02/2015
» SAMUT SAKHON — Urine pools under a bed where an emaciated Myanmar man lies wearing only a t-shirt and a diaper.
More than 400 dead dolphins in Peru
Associated Press, Published on 04/02/2014
» More than 400 dead dolphins were found last month on the Pacific Ocean beaches of northern Peru where twice that amount were encountered in 2012, officials said Monday.
Tourists survive 14-hour swim after boat sinks
Associated Press, Published on 26/04/2013
» SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The fishing trip off the rugged north coast of St Lucia was supposed to last all day, but about four hours into the journey, the boat's electrical system crackled and popped.