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<p class="leadIntroPara"> The death toll from the sinking of a Greek
ferry off the Aegean island of Paros has risen to 62 with 29 people
still missing, according to Greek officials. </p>
<p> British Royal Naval vessels which helped in the rescue are to
pull out of the search as the hope of finding survivors diminishes.
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France sues over Concorde crash</a></font></b> </p>
<p>Air France is suing Continental Airlines over its alleged role
in the Concorde disaster that killed 113 people. French investigators
believe the Concorde hit a strip of metal from a Continental DC-10
on the runway.</p>
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<p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="3" class="teaserHeadline"><a href="news/20000927/world/04yugo.shtml">Thousands
protest against Milosevic </a></font></b> </p>
<p> Tens of thousands of Serbs have poured into a central Belgrade
square for a rally to call for the resignation of President Milosevic.
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<td valign="top" width="297" height="134"> <a href="news/20000927/world/07imfprotest.shtml" class="teaserHeadline">Fresh
violence at IMF meeting in Prague</a>
<p>Dozens of anti-globalisation protesters attacked police guarding
Prague's central Hilton hotel early on Wednesday, kicking off the
second day of violent street actions against IMF and World Bank
meetings.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="297" height="134"> <a href="news/20000927/world/09solar_flares.shtml" class="teaserHeadline">Nasa
shots of solar flares in close-up</a>
<p>Nasa has released spectacular new pictures of coronal loops, giant
fountains of fast-moving, multimillion-degree gas in the outermost
atmosphere of the Sun.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="299"> <b><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="3" class="teaserHeadline"><a href="news/20000927/world/05floods.shtml">Hundreds
dead in Indian floods</a></font></b>
<p> Rescue crews are using boats and military helicopters to help
some of the millions of people forced from their homes by floods
which are believed to have killed more than 450 in India. Authorities
are trying to ferry victims to higher ground, but most remain marooned
on top of buildings. </p>
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<td valign="top" width="299"> <b><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="3" class="teaserHeadline"><a href="news/20000927/world/01shooting.shtml">School
gun fight students 'critical'</a></font></b>
<p> An argument between two students, ages 13 and 15, escalated into
a gunfight at a New Orleans middle school, critically wounding both
boys. </p>
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<td valign="top" width="299"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="3" class="teaserHeadline"><a href="news/20000926/world/08helicopter.shtml">Swiss
helicopter collision kills eight</a></font></b>
<p>Eight people have been killed and three others injured after two
helicopters collided over western Switzerland. The Air Glaciers
aircraft were carrying sightseers and hit each other in mid-air,
crashing onto a football field.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="299"> <b><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="3" class="teaserHeadline"><a href="news/20000926/world/03lockerbie.shtml">Libyan
testifies at Lockerbie trial</a></font></b>
<p>The Lockerbie trial has begun to hear evidence from the prosecution's
star witness. Abdul Majid Giaka was a Libyan double agent working
for the CIA when a bomb exploded on Pan Am Flight 103.</p>
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<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>Year 2000</b> -</p>
<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>June 29</b> - INDONESIA - Only about
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of the Ocean), with 290 fleeing refugees and almost 200 passengers,
sinks off the coast of Sulawesi.</p>
<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>June 22</b>- CHINA - At least 130 die
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River near Luzhou in Sichuan.</p>
<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>April 12</b> - PHILIPPINES - At least
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<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>1999</b> -</p>
<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>November 25</b> - CHINA - Only 22 survive
when the Dashun, with at least 308 aboard, founders and breaks up
in stormy waters off the port city of Yantai on the east coast.</p>
<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>May 8</b>- BANGLADESH - Ferry MV Dwipkanya,
carrying some 400 passengers, sinks in a whirlpool during a storm
near Lakhsmipur, 175 km (110 miles) from Dhaka. At least 300 are
missing.</p>
<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>March 22</b> - SIERRA LEONE - At least
150 drown when overloaded motorised canoe capsizes off the town
of Tasso.</p>
<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>March 6</b> - SIERRA LEONE - More than
100 traders drown and around 100 go missing after their overloaded
boat sinks in rough seas off Freetown.</p>
<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>February 6</b> - INDONESIA - Only 20
are rescued from ferry Harta Rimba, carrying 325 passengers and
seven crew, which sinks in South China Sea near Tambelan islands,
north of Jakarta.</p>
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<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>1998</b> -</p>
<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>September 18</b> - PHILIPPINES - Almost
200 die after the 13,935-ton MV Princess of the Orient sinks near
Manila. Almost 300 survivors are recovered.</p>
<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>June 12</b> - GUINEA-BISSAU - About
200 people fleeing fighting in Guinea-Bissau drown when they tried
to reach the Bijagos Islands off the coast of the West African state.</p>
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<p class="featureBoxBody"><b>1997</b> -</p>
<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>September 8</b> - HAITI - Between 300
and 400 people believed dead in sinking of packed ferry bound for
the island of La Gonave.</p>
<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>September 1</b> - NIGERIA - Passenger
ferry Olodiama collides with tugboat off southeastern Nigeria. At
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<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>August 25</b> - NIGERIA - About 100
drown when two wooden boats collide off Nigeria's Niger delta.</p>
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<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>1996</b> -</p>
<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>May 21</b> - TANZANIA - Tanzanian ferry
MV Bukoba capsizes on Lake Victoria near western town of Mwanza.
Only 114 survive out of about 1,000 estimated to have been on board.</p>
<p class="featureBoxBody"> <b>January 19</b> - INDONESIA - Up to 338
believed to have died after ferry Gurita sank in heavy seas off
Banda Aceh. At least 55 confirmed dead, 238 listed as missing, 40
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