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Shares of cruise operator Carnival Corp plunged 15 percent on Tuesday after a ship operated by its unit struck a submerged rock and keeled over off the coast of Italy late on Friday.

An overloaded ferry capsized off east Africa as it sailed from Zanzibar to Pemba island. It was Tanzania’s worst maritime disaster in at least 15 years.

A passenger ferry sank in the northern Philippines in a second sea disaster in three days. Six bodies, including three children, were recovered and at least 22 people were missing Sunday....