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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — The death toll from a boat accident off Malaysia rose to 18 Thursday after a search and rescue team found the bodies of seven more Indonesian migrants on the shore. The vessel, which was carrying about 50 Indonesians seeking to enter neighbouring Malaysia illegally, capsized Wednesday in stormy weather off the southern state of Johor. Soldiers on patrol found 11 victims on the shore in the hours after the […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Time is running out for Jakarta. One of the fastest-sinking cities on earth, environmental experts warn that one third of it could be submerged by 2050 if current rates continue. Decades of uncontrolled and excessive depletion of groundwater reserves, rising sea-levels, and increasingly volatile weather patterns mean swathes of it have already started to disappear. Existing environmental measures have had little impact, so authorities are taking drastic action: the nation […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — At least three people were dead and 30 were missing after a boat carrying some 150 tourists sank in a reservoir in northwestern Colombia on Sunday, police said. Officials did not indicate what caused the boat to sink in the El Penol reservoir in the tourist town of Guatape. “So far we have three people deceased” and “approximately 30 missing,” police commander Jorge Hernando Nieto said on BluRadio.
