Italy's political crisis on display in battle over fate of boat with 147 migrants aboard
A Spanish humanitarian boat carrying 147 migrants rescued at sea was anchored in choppy waters Thursday near a southern Italian island while the country's interior and defense ministers sparred over whether it should dock amid Italy's rapidly escalating government crisis. Spain and five other nations ...
Migrant rescue ship heads for Italy after judge overrules Matteo Salvini decree
Spanish humanitarian ship Open Arms headed for Lampedusa on Wednesday with 147 rescued migrants on board after a judge in Rome suspended far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's decree banning them from Italian territorial waters. The Proactiva Open Arms charity, which operates the ship, said it ...
40 migrants on rescue ship head to Malta, 123 others in limbo
Forty migrants rescued off the coast of Libya were successfully transferred Sunday to Maltese military boats and brought to port, the German rescue group Sea-Eye said, ending another standoff with the European Union over the fate of migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea. Sea-Eye posted ...
Transport safety body says accidents involving water scooters, banana boats on the rise in Japan
The Japan Transport Safety Board, an affiliate of the transport ministry, has issued a warning as accidents involving water scooters have been rising recently. In the 10 years to 2018, a total of 454 accidents involving the vehicles occurred, leaving 59 people dead and 510 ...
Italy to release 116 stranded migrants after EU deal is reached to disperse them
Italy will allow 116 rescued migrants on its Gregoretti coast guard ship to disembark "within hours," Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday, after EU countries agreed to share responsibility for looking after them. "I will give authorization (for the migrants) to disembark in the coming ...
Libyan authorities buried the bodies of 46 migrants Sunday after they were plucked from the sea following one of the deadliest shipwrecks in the Mediterranean so far this year. Rescue workers said Friday they had recovered the bodies of 62 migrants from waters off Libya ...
Ukraine seizes Russian tanker and frees crew after Moscow issues threat
Ukraine on Thursday seized a Russian tanker for its alleged involvement in the capture of three Ukrainian navy vessels by Russia, prompting Moscow to warn of consequences if any Russian citizens were "taken hostage. The crew members were later freed by Ukraine and were on ...
Up to 150 migrants feared drowned after boats capsize off Libya
Up to 150 Europe-bound migrants were missing and feared drowned on Thursday after the boats they were traveling in capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, the coast guard and the U.N. refugee agency said. A top U.N. official described the shipwreck as "the worst ...
Air-board inventor makes it more than halfway across Channel before crashing into sea
Looking like a superhero, the French inventor of an airborne hoverboard glided partway over the English Channel on his personal flying machine then crashed in the sea Thursday. Unharmed and undeterred, 40-year-old Franky Zapata said he plans to try again. Perhaps within days. The inventor collided ...
Deadly Russia nuclear sub fire could have caused 'catastrophe of global proportions'
A fire aboard a top-secret Russian nuclear submarine could have led to a "catastrophe of global proportions" if not for the selfless actions of the crew, a senior navy official was cited by a Russian media outlet as saying. Fourteen submariners were killed on July ...
Tunisia finds corpses of pregnant migrant and toddler as body count from sinking reaches 16
Tunisia's Red Crescent said Sunday three more bodies had been retrieved off the country's coast, including those of a pregnant woman and toddler, days after a boat carrying scores of migrants sank. "The number of bodies retrieved (from the water) has reached 15," said Red ...
Hungarian authorities identify 27th victim, a South Korean, of May Danube boat sinking
Hungarian police said Saturday they had identified the 27th victim of the sinking of a boat carrying South Korean tourists in the capital, Budapest, on 29 May, leaving one person still missing from the disaster. Police said in a statement that the body of the ...
