Italy's Matteo Salvini loses immunity and faces trial for holding rescued migrants offshore
An Italian senate committee voted Monday to strip former interior minister Matteo Salvini of his parliamentary immunity, opening the way for him to stand trial for allegedly illegally detaining migrants at sea last year. "They'll have to find a very large courtroom, for it will ...
Three men were in good condition early Wednesday after being cut from inside the hull of a capsized crab boat off the Oregon coast. Their harrowing rescue was caught on video the night before. The 38-foot (11-meter) Pacific Miner was flipped upside-down by large waves ...
Almost 1,000 people trying to flee Libya by boat have been intercepted and returned to the conflict-ravaged country by its coast guard during the first two weeks of the new year, the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday. The IOM said at least 953 migrants, ...
Company hired to extract cargo ship months after it capsized at mouth of Georgia harbor
A Texas-based salvage company will cut up and remove a 656-foot (200-meter) shipwreck from St. Simons Sound off the coast of Georgia. The Coast Guard's Unified Command has hired T&T Salvage LLC of Galveston to remove the Golden Ray cargo ship, The Brunswick News reported. ...
Five crew members feared dead after crab boat sinks off Alaska
Five crew members missing after a crab fishing vessel sank in the frigid waters off Alaska were feared dead after authorities called off a search for those working in the one of the most dangerous industries in the U.S. Two other crew members were rescued ...
A guard withholds water from a barefoot migrant kneeling in front of him. An emaciated man lies on the ground while a thermostat reads a broiling 43 degrees Celsius. Refugees cower to the ground as bullets whiz by. These rough pencil sketches by an Eritrean ...
British authorities pick up 49 suspected migrants trying to cross Channel in small boats
British border and coast guard elements picked up 49 suspected migrants on Thursday as they were trying to cross the Channel from France in small boats, according to media reports. The group of men, women and one child said they were from Afghanistan, Iran and ...
The Spanish coast guard said it had rescued about 200 migrants on Christmas Day, plucking them from makeshift boats in the Mediterranean Sea. It said they were saved in a number of separate operations off the coasts of Spain and Morocco, but gave no information ...
German migrant rescue boat Sea-Watch 3 to sail again after being held by Italy for five months
A migrant rescue boat blocked in an Italian port for over five months after being seized by the government was released on Thursday, the German maritime rescue group said. The Sea-Watch 3 was seized by Italy in June after the boat carrying 40 rescued migrants ...
Fire destroys Latin crooner Marc Anthony's $7 million yacht in Miami
A luxury yacht owned by Latin singer Marc Anthony was destroyed in an overnight fire in the Miami bay, the local fire department and U.S. media reported Thursday. Firefighters took two hours to control the blaze, but the 36.5-meter (120-foot) long yacht could not be ...
Shikoku court rejects fishermen's appeal over 1954 hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll
The Takamatsu High Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that rejected a claim by former tuna fishermen and bereaved relatives for state compensation over the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. In the lawsuit, the 29 plaintiffs demanded ...
At least 62 migrants traveling on a makeshift boat have drowned off the coast of Mauritania, in the worst loss of life this year along the increasingly traveled Atlantic migration route to Europe. Eighty-three survivors managed to swim to shore after their boat, which was ...
