Beijing seeks Tokyo's cooperation over Chinese fishing boat and Japanese destroyer collision
China confirmed Tuesday that a Chinese fishing boat and a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer collided on the high seas off the coast just south of Shanghai on Monday evening, adding that it hopes Japan will cooperate over the investigation and prevent similar incidents ...
13 missing after cargo ship collides with fishing boat off Aomori
More than a dozen crew members of a cargo ship are missing after it collided with a fishing boat in waters off northern Japan, a Japan Coast Guard official said Sunday. The 1,989-ton Belize-flagged cargo ship Guoxing 1 was carrying some 3,000 tons of iron ...
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 ...
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 ...
Italy places more migrants across Europe as Matteo Salvini focuses on economy
Italy has increased relocation of migrants around Europe, official figures showed on Wednesday, reducing frictions around the issue and enabling far-right leader Matteo Salvini to steer his focus more onto the economy. Interior Ministry data showed that 172 migrants who came onshore from the Mediterranean ...
Saudi-bound ship with 14,600 sheep aboard capsizes off Romania port
Rescuers were struggling Sunday to save 14,600 sheep loaded on a cargo ship that capsized in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania, they said. The Queen Hind bound for Saudi Arabia overturned for yet unknown reasons shortly after leaving Romania's Midia port. The crew ...
Italian authorities have evacuated 11 migrants from the Open Arms ship but not granted port access to the vessel, leaving it stranded in rough seas with 62 African migrants still on board, a spokeswoman for the Spanish rescue mission said on Sunday. Among those evacuated ...
