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Two people are dead after a massive container ship crashed into a bridge south of the city of Guangzhou in southern China early Thursday, causing a section of the roadway to come crashing down along with vehicles. One person from the ship sustained light injuries, according to a statement from the Guangzhou city government's Nansha district Thursday. Rescue workers are still on the scene and an investigation into the cause of the crash has been launched.

The accident took place in the early hours when a pier of the Lixinsha Bridge was hit by an empty container ship which led to collapse of part of the beam

Svetlana Timm-Vengerov was just 17 years old when she went to sea for the first time. Her journey began with a flight from Germany to South Korea, where she headed for the harbour city of Busan and boarded a ship. "Of course, it was a really impressive feeling and experience at first, because you couldn't really know what to expect," she says looking back, now 30 years old. Timm-Vengerov travelled across the Pacific to North and Central America and then back to Asia, in a six week...

Meanwhile, the US has launched new air strikes in Yemen, targeting 10 drones reportedly being set up to launch.

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At Guayaquil, Ecuador's biggest port and export hub, drug gangs and the coast guard play a cat-and-mouse game, vying for supremacy of the river among the many hidden inlets and tangles of mangrove.It is also the main export channel for drugs.

The U.S. says anti-ship missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels have flown toward a U.S.-owned cargo ship and a U.S warship in the Red Sea despite airstrikes against the group.

The US military says the ship was hit by a ballistic missile fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen.