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Updated 9:47 p.m. ET HONG KONG (AP) – A boat packed with holiday revelers collided with a ferry and sank off Hong Kong, killing 36 people and injuring dozens more, authorities said. The boat was carrying staff members of a utility company and their family members to Hong Kong’s famed Victoria Harbour to watch a fireworks display Monday night on the long holiday weekend celebrating China’s National Day and mid-autumn festival. It was carrying about 120 people when it collided with the ferry near Lamma Island off the southwestern coast of Hong Kong Island. The government said 25 bodies had been recovered by Tuesday morning and the search was continuing. More than 100 people were rescued and sent to hospitals, and 텍사스 홀덤 nine had serious or critical injuries, the government’s statement said. “There was a boat that came in close and crashed,” said Yuen Sui-see, director of operations at Power Assets Holdings Ltd., which was using the vessel to take staff on the outing. “After the crash, the other boat continued away, it didn’t stop.” He denied the vessel was overloaded, saying it was carrying 121 passengers and three crew but had capacity for more than 200 passengers. Television channels showed the boat half submerged with the bow pointing straight up. Helicopters circled overhead with searchlights as government vessels surrounded the boat and divers prepared to enter the...

(CBS/AP) DAMASCUS, Syria — A bomb went off outside a mosque in Damascus on Friday, killing at least five policemen and wounding others, the latest violence in the capital, once the impregnable stronghold of President Bashar Assad’s regime. The bomb exploded in the northern neighborhood of Rukneddine as worshippers were leaving the Rukniyeh mosque after Friday prayers. Syrian officials said six policemen were killed. Hours later, officials told CBS News’ George Baghdadi that a second bomb had exploded near the Ministry of Information, burning at least six cars but causing no causalities. More in After the Arab Spring Syria: No talks with rebels until they’re crushedSyria: 2 bombs explode near military officesSyrian rebels launch new strikes in Aleppo An Associated Press reporter at the scene said the bomb went off across the street from the mosque and damaged a clinic as well as six cars. Officials at the bomb was placed on a motorcycle. The brick wall over the entrance of the clinic collapsed, and blood could be seen on the wall and in the street. In recent months, the Syrian capital has been hit by a string of bombings. On Sunday, two bombs exploded in Damascus near the offices of the Syrian military’s joint chiefs of staff, slightly wounding four army officers and damaging buildings and cars. Syria’s uprising against President Bashar Assad began in March last year,...

(CBS News) Hong Kong is a special place in China, 메이저사이트 more tolerant and western-looking in its attitudes – up to a point, apparently. Cecil Chao is a property billionaire with a taste for garish art and younger women. What he doesn’t have is a taste for is his daughter’s sexual orientation. Gigi Chao has formalized her relationship with her partner in a church ceremony in France and that does not please Cecil Chao. He’s tried to fix his embarrassment the way he fixes most things – with money. He’s offered a $65 million marriage bounty to any man who can convince Gigi of the error of her ways. The tweets have flooded in and prove the old Chinese proverb – be careful what you ask for. One of the marriage proposals reads, “I am interested in your offer to wed your daughter who also happens to be gay. I am a male person who also happens to be gay.” Another says, “Let’s just get married and split the money 50-50.” Another adds, “Gigi Chao, you are now the most sexiest woman alive.” Gigi Chao says her father’s interference is just a generational thing. “It’s obvious that he doesn’t accept his daughter being gay, first of all, but he doesn’t accept that as a social statement. He can accept it, sort of, as an in-the-closet lifestyle choice, but not...