Urgent, concerted action must be taken to end road carnage globally
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/ 18 October 2005
An Egyptian passenger cruiser carrying more than 1 300 Muslim pilgrims collided with a cargo ship at the Suez Canal’s southern entrance late on Monday, causing a stampede among panicked passengers on their sinking vessel that killed one person, officials and state-run media said.
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/ 6 September 2005
A fire that began when an actor knocked over a candle on the set of a play ripped through a crowded theatre in the central Egyptian city of Beni Suef late on Monday, sparking a stampede of audience members and killing at least 29 people, survivors and officials said. The fire spread quickly across the set, which was made entirely of paper.
Former dictator Saddam Hussein will stand trial for a range of charges — from gassing thousands of Kurds to executing political and religious leaders, according to a list of the cases against him obtained from the special tribunal on Monday. Meanwhile, violence by insurgents opposed to Iraq’s new government continues.