Wooden Boat

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  Over 200 Rohingya Refugees Are Stranded On Indonesian Beach. Here's Why

  More than 200 Rohingya refugees were huddled on the beaches of a remote Indonesian island Wednesday after weeks adrift on a wooden boat, as authorities rejected locals' efforts to push the members of the persecuted Myanmar minority back to sea.

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  Border Force Arrests Pak Fisherman In Gujarat's Sir Creek

  The Border Security Force has apprehended a Pakistani fisherman with an "engine-fitted wooden boat" on Indian side of the Sir Creek, officials said.

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  When Water Displaced Natives From Munroe Thuruth, Kerala's 'Sinking Island'

  Tucked away from the chaos of this nearby commercial town, there is an inland island where wooden country boats can be seen carrying tourists every now and then through tranquil canals, flanked by lush mangrove patches

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  Human Remains Found In Boat Suspected From North Korea: Japan Coast Guard

  Japanese police found the remains of at least five people in a wooden boat suspected to be from North Korea on the coast of one of Japan's outlying islands on Saturday, a Coast Guard official said.

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  Woman Helps Old Age Residents "Explore" World With Goggle Headsets

  Jim Halsey, 83, has traveled to Japan and South Korea, through Europe and Central America. One recent day, he squatted in a narrow, wooden boat and watched as an elephant trudged through a swamp in Botswana.

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  In Karnataka's Chikmagalur, Students Risk Lives To Cross Overfull River

  Villagers, including school students, are compelled to use wooden logs over the bridge to cross the river. Makeshift boats are also being used to cross the overflowing stream.

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  Four Rohingya Drown As Refugee Boat Capsizes Off Bangladesh

  Four Rohingya Muslims, a man, woman and two children, drowned when a small wooden fishing boat carrying dozens of refugees fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar capsized off the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday, police said.

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  Ships Rescue Some 730 Migrants In Mediterranean

  Humanitarian ships picked up about 730 migrants today from rubber and wooden boats in the Mediterranean, adding to a lengthening list of rescue operations in recent days.

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  Banned From Boats In Myanmar, Rohingya Fish On Rafts Of Junk

  Every day before sunrise, dozens of fishermen, shivering against the cold, shove out onto the Bay of Bengal on makeshift rafts made out of plastic jugs, bamboo and twine, just steps away from the sturdy and much safer wooden boats they had used for years.

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  Without Help, Families Face Lonely Search For Europe's Missing Refugee Children

  After losing its way in the dark waters of the Aegean between Turkey and the Greek island of Lesbos, the small wooden boat carrying Ghulam Haidar, his young family and nearly 50 other passengers was hit by strong winds and waves.

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  Rough Seas, Harsh Winter, Border Limits Add To Migrant Woes

  Rasul Orwani thought he had faced the worst after braving cold, rough seas in a rickety wooden boat to travel from Turkey to Greece, and then came the Balkans.

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  Japan Probes Mystery Boats Carrying Dead Bodies Off Coast

  Japanese authorities are investigating nearly a dozen wooden boats carrying decomposing bodies found drifting off the northwestern coast over the past month.

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  Indonesia Migrant Boat Death Toll Rises to 61

  Sixty-one bodies have been recovered from an overloaded wooden boat which sank on Thursday off Malaysia carrying dozens of Indonesian illegal immigrants, maritime officials said.

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  At Least 13 Dead After Migrant Boat Sinks Off Malaysia: Official

  A small rickety wooden boat believed to be carrying around 70 Indonesian migrants sank in the Malacca Strait early Thursday killing at least 13 people, Malaysian officials said.

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  Almost 500 Rohingya Rescued Off Indonesia: Officials

  Rescuers today brought ashore 469 migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh after their wooden boat arrived off Aceh in northwest Indonesia, an official said.