A fishing boat from Libya carrying migrants capsized and sank off southeastern Greece on Wednesday. Reuters and other news organizations report 78 people have been confirmed dead.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 rocked Batangas province in the northern Philippines on Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.
A 56-year-old worker has died with two others sustaining light injuries following an explosion at a chemical plant in Japan's Niigata Prefecture on Wednesday, local media reported.
A tour boat carrying 28 tourists and one guide capsized on Monday in upstate New York, leaving one dead and near a dozen injured, according to media reports.
