(2/06)

SAFAGA, Egypt (Reuters) - Hopes of finding nearly 900 missing people after an Egyptian ferry sank in the Red Sea faded on Saturday as the search for them entered a second day.

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LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - The death toll in India's worst encephalitis outbreak in nearly 30 years has reached 900 but the number of new infections has fallen in the past week, officials said on Sunday.

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 800 Iraqi Shi'ites died in a stampede over a Baghdad bridge provoked by rumours of a suicide bomber on Wednesday, and an official said the death toll was expected to reach 1,000.