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World
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4/16/2022 9:11:49 PM
A migrant boat has capsized off the Libyan coast, leaving at least 35 people dead or presumed dead, the U.N. migration agency said Saturday. It was the second tragedy in less than a week involving migrants departing from North Africa to seek a better life in Europe.
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World
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4/9/2022 11:57:09 AM
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have seized a foreign boat smuggling fuel in the Gulf and arrested its 11 crew members, a senior justice official said Saturday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/4/2022 11:32:06 PM
Egypt has extended condolences to Sudan over the drowning of more than 20 people when a boat carrying agricultural workers capsized in southeastern Sennar province last week.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
4/4/2022 4:52:15 PM
The US government seized a mega yacht in Spain owned by an oligarch with close ties to the Russian president on Monday, the first in the government's sanctions initiative to 'seize and freeze' giant boats and other pricey assets of Russian elites.
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World
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Africa
4/4/2022 4:08:38 PM
Sudanese authorities reported Monday the sinking of a boat last week on the Blue Nile and said at least 23 women are believed to have drowned.
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World
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Region
4/3/2022 1:26:53 PM
More than 90 people in an overcrowded boat drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, a prominent humanitarian group said, in the latest tragedy involving migrants departing from North Africa to seek a better life in Europe
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World
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International
3/8/2022 1:09:58 PM
South Korea says it fired warning shots at a North Korean patrol boat that temporarily crossed the countries' disputed western sea boundary while chasing an unarmed North Korean vessel.
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World
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Region
3/1/2022 1:33:35 PM
At least nine migrants died after their boat capsized off Tunisian coast, the Tunisian defense ministry said Tuesday.
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World
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International
2/12/2022 1:43:51 PM
Ukrainian captain Oleksandr Surkov looks askance at his patrol boat's machine guns and laments how futile they would be fending off an attack from Russian warships now steaming across the Black Sea.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
2/5/2022 5:58:52 PM
Visitors to the Giza Plateau can now finally enjoy an unobstructed view of the entire southern angle of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, after the Khufu Boat Museum that had blocked the view for decades was removed.
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World
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International
1/25/2022 10:59:40 PM
The US Coast Guard has launched a search for 39 people reported missing when a boat capsized off the coast of Florida in what it said was a "suspected human smuggling venture."
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World
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Region
1/22/2022 10:00:03 AM
Four people died after a boat carrying Europe-bound migrants on the Mediterranean Sea sank off Tunisia's coast, the Tunisian Defense Ministry said Friday.
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World
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International
1/19/2022 6:06:03 PM
Police in Italy, Albania and Greece on Wednesday arrested some 30 people accused of profiteering several hundred million euros to smuggle refugees and migrants into the European Union from Turkey on yachts and other leisure vessels.
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World
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International
12/30/2021 9:25:03 PM
A group of 120 Rohingya Muslims disembarked from a boat that had drifted for days off Indonesia's northernmost province of Aceh and was towed by a navy ship into port, officials said Friday.
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World
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International
12/29/2021 11:50:42 AM
Indonesian authorities said Wednesday they will push a boat containing 120 Rohingya Muslims back to international waters despite calls from the United Nations refugee agency to allow the passengers to disembark after being adrift for days off the country's northernmost province of Aceh.
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World
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Region
12/25/2021 9:19:32 PM
Tunisian coastguards have rescued 48 illegal migrants trying to reach Europe from neighbouring Libya in a makeshift boat, the North African country's Red Crescent said on Saturday.
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World
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Region
12/25/2021 12:56:39 PM
Greek coast guards scoured for survivors in the Aegean Sea on Saturday after the latest in a series of migrant boat accidents that have killed at least 30 people in just days.
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World
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International
12/23/2021 11:25:35 PM
At least four migrants died after their boat was grounded on an islet north of the Greek island of Antikythera on Thursday, the Greek coastguard said.
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World
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International
12/22/2021 10:41:59 PM
Greek authorities ramped up a major sea-and-air search and rescue operation in the Aegean Sea on Wednesday after a migrant smuggling vessel sank, leaving at least three people dead and dozens reported missing.
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World
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International
12/21/2021 4:13:52 PM
The Malaysian military used boats Tuesday to distribute food to desperate people trapped in their homes after massive floods, as the death toll rose to 14 with over 70,000 displaced.
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