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Friday 23 October 2020
The tragedy comes after 44 migrants were killed in an air strike on their detention centre in Libya.
The wooden vessel sank yesterday afternoon with an estimated 80 people aboard.
The vessel overturned off the port city of Rosetta in Egypt, police and health officials said.
Tension is currently mounting in Italy over a recent influx of migrants.
The eight men on board are all feared to have perished.
The yacht went missing last Friday after taking on water.
A boat containing six passengers capsized in the lough yesterday – five of the men were rescued last night.
Five people were rescued as RNLI lifeboats are still searching.
One body was retrieved on Friday four kilometres from the site.
Almost 250 people are still unaccounted for.
Most of the 477 passengers were high school students.
One man managed to swim to shore and the remaining three were recovered by the Tramore RNLI inshore lifeboat crew.
The incident occurred during the Irish stopover of the Route des Princes inshore race this afternoon.
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
A woman and a young child have died after an overloaded boat carrying 95 asylum-seekers travelling to Australia sank in the Indian Ocean.
Indonesian officials received an alert from Australian authorities but have been unable to locate the vessel.
Cruise ship struck rocks of the Tuscan coast in January and capsized, killing 32 people.
The boat, which is thought to be from Sri Lanka, was on its way to the Australian territory of Christmas Island.
Francesco Schettino also ordered officers to lie to coastguards after the accident, an inquiry has been told.
Eight more bodies have been found on the stricken liner, but authorities were unable to recover them all due to worsening weather.
After the discovery of a 13th body, a rescue official has raised the possibility that stowaways could push the death toll higher.
The body, wearing a lifejacket, was discovered by divers in a portion of the ship submerged under water.
But it’s thought the substance is diesel from machinery aboard the stricken cruise ship – not the heavy fuel oil from its huge tanks.
The drilling platform sank in 20 minutes yesterday while being towed during a storm in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia’s east coast.
The alarm was raised after a boat capsized in the Malahide Estuary just after 5pm yesterday evening.
Six people are still missing after the boat full of people on a fishing holiday capsized off the Mexican coast.
The vessels got into difficulties off the Tunisian coast on Tuesday as the refugees fled the turmoil in Libya.
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump and former vice president Joe Biden took part in another debate last night, the final head-to-head before voting on 3 November.
The previous debate was fractious and almost unwatchable as the pair shouted over each other, but last night was more measured by comparison.
Trump denied being racist, saying no US president since Abraham Lincoln has “done what I’ve done for the black community”. Biden then said Trump “pours fuel on every single racist fire” and claimed he “has a dog whistle about as big as a fog horn”.
You can catch up on the main points here.
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