No injuries reported as Japan MSDF minesweeper and cargo ship collide off Hiroshima
A Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper and a cargo ship collided around midnight Wednesday in the Seto Inland Sea off the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture, but no injuries were reported, according to the Japan Coast Guard. The 510-ton minesweeper Notojima carrying 41 people and the 699-ton ...
Italy holds Netherlands and EU 'responsible' for stranded migrant boat
Italy's hard-line Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said he would hold the Netherlands and the European Union "responsible" for the fate of 42 migrants that Rome has blocked from disembarking at Italian ports for over a week. The Dutch-flagged rescue boat Sea-Watch 3 has been stuck ...
20 missing from migrant boat after ferry rescues 27 off Spanish coast
Spanish rescue services are searching for at least 20 people missing from a migrant boat found adrift in the Mediterranean after a passenger ferry rescued 27 people still aboard on Wednesday. The number of migrants arriving in Europe by sea, already declining steadily since 2015, ...
Woman rescued from drifting sailboat off Hokkaido identified as Russian national
A woman who was rescued from a drifting sailboat in waters off Hokkaido has been identified as a Russian national, the coast guard said Tuesday. The 48-year-old woman, identified as Tatiana Riabkova Leonidovna, told the coast guard that she departed Vladivostok, in Russia's Far ...
Collision sparks fresh debate over allowing huge cruise ships into fragile Venice
A massive cruise ship lost control in Venice Sunday, crashing into a wharf and sparking a fresh controversy over the damage the mammoth vessels cause to one of the world's most famous cities. Footage posted to social media showed people in the harbor fleeing as ...
Body found as divers continue search for missing crew from ship collision off eastern Japan
Another crew member was found dead Tuesday as divers searched inside a cargo ship that sank in the Pacific Ocean off eastern Japan, bringing the death toll from the accident to two, authorities said. The divers had resumed a search for missing crew members with ...
U.S. Navy refocuses on leadership training after deadly collisions in Pacific
After a pair of crashes involving U.S. Navy ships in the Asia-Pacific killed more than a dozen people last year, the Navy's efforts to develop its leaders is receiving renewed attention. Last week, the Navy inaugurated the College of Leadership and Ethics at the U.S. ...
Japan sees little chance of oil slick from stricken tanker reaching its coast
Japan sees little chance of the oil spill from a stricken Iranian tanker that sank on Sunday in the East China Sea reaching its shores, an official at the nation's Environment Ministry said on Tuesday. The large tanker Sanchi sank in the worst oil ship ...
Remains found aboard U.S. warship following collision as navy orders fleetwide probe
The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet said some remains of navy sailors were found in a compartment of the USS John McCain on Tuesday, a day after the warship's collision with an oil tanker in Southeast Asian waters left 10 sailors missing. Adm. Scott ...
U.S. destroyer collision exposes 40-year Singapore-Malaysia sea dispute
A collision between a U.S. warship and an oil tanker near the Straits of Malacca on Monday has shone a light on a territorial dispute that has simmered between neighbours Singapore and Malaysia for nearly 40 years. The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided ...
Ten sailors missing after Yokosuka-based U.S. warship collides with tanker off Singapore
In the second major accident involving a vessel from the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet in just over two months, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain, based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, collides with a tanker in waters east of Singapore.
730 more migrants rescued in Mediterranean as Europe-bound flow grows
Humanitarian ships picked up about 730 migrants on Sunday from rubber and wooden boats in the Mediterranean, adding to a lengthening list of rescue operations in recent days. The migrants were picked up in seven separate rescue operations aboard three dinghies and four wooden craft, ...
