The high-speed ship was en route to Sado Island in the Sea of Japan when the collision happened.
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Iranian couple arrested over public marriage proposal
Police say the pair's engagement at a shopping centre in Arak contravened Islamic principles.
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Tom Ballard: Bodies found in missing climbers search
Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi last made contact from a mountain in Pakistan almost two weeks ago.
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Algeria orders early university holiday as students spur protests
Algerian authorities on Saturday ordered an early start to the spring university holiday, an apparent attempt to weaken two weeks of student-led protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
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Former TV news anchor set to become first Druze woman in Israel's parliament
With Israel's election just over a month away, a Druze former television news anchor is poised to become the first woman from her Arabic-speaking minority to serve in the Israeli parliament.
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British government condemned after Islamic State teenager's baby dies
A decision by Britain to strip a teenage girl of her citizenship after she joined Islamic State in Syria was described as a "stain on the conscience" of the government on Saturday after her three-week old baby died.
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Adnan Syed, who featured in Serial podcast, loses retrial bid
He was convicted in the US of killing his ex-girlfriend but the podcast unearthed an alibi witness.
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Hungarian scientists fear for academic freedom with new government interference
Staff members of the historic Hungarian Academy of Sciences said their academic freedom has been threatened by a new deal giving the nationalist government influence over its research institutions.
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What Brexit game is EU playing? British parliament leader Leadsom asks
The leader of Britain's parliament Andrea Leadsom said she was beginning to wonder what game the European Union was playing over Brexit as relations between London and Brussels deteriorated ahead of a vote by lawmakers next week.
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Vietnam says investigating cause of boat's sinking in contested waters
Vietnam is seeking clarification of how a fishing boat came to sink this week in the contested South China Sea, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, days after a local rescue agency said it was rammed by a Chinese vessel.
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Oldest living person, Kane Tanaka, celebrates getting the Guinness World Record
Asked what part of her life she'd enjoyed most, Kane Tanaka, 116, said: "This right now."
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Congo's Mai Mai militia attacks Ebola treatment center
Armed Mai Mai militiamen attacked an Ebola treatment center at the heart of an outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo on Saturday, killing a policeman before being repelled by security forces, the local mayor said.
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Mobster Carmine Persico dies after serving 33 of 139-year sentence
Carmine Persico reportedly ran his criminal organisation from behind bars for decades.
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'What game are they playing?' leader of British parliament asks of EU
The leader of Britain's parliament said she was beginning to wonder what game the European Union was playing over Brexit as relations between London and Brussels deteriorated ahead of a vote by lawmakers next week.
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Women's Day unites activists, Turkish police break up crowd with tear gas
Campaigners for gender equality took to European city streets on Friday to mark International Women's Day with celebrations and protests, while in Turkey police fired tear gas to break up a crowd of several thousand women in Istanbul in the evening.
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UK won't accept Brexit deal that puts union at risk: PM's party chairman
Britain cannot accept an EU proposal to break the deadlock in the Brexit talks because it would threaten the unity of the United Kingdom by treating Northern Ireland differently, the chairman of the ruling Conservative Party said.
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Pastors Knocked Out, Christians Killed as Persecution Spikes Dramatically in India
India is seeing a dramatic rise in persecution as more and more churches and Christians are coming under attack in 2019.
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Libyans fear showdown as eastern commander eyes capital
Forces from eastern Libya who have swept through the south and taken control of remaining oilfields in recent weeks have now reinforced a base in the center of the country and signaled to the capital Tripoli that it may be next.
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India waiting for UK reply after fugitive Nirav Modi's video surfaces
India said on Saturday it was waiting for Britain to respond to its request to extradite fugitive billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi, after London's Telegraph newspaper reported that he was living in an upscale apartment in London.
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Malaysian jailed for 10 years for insulting Islam on social media
A Malaysian was sentenced to more than 10 years' jail and three others were charged over insults against Islam and the Prophet Muhammad on social media, police said on Saturday.
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