Norway tugs begin towing stricken liner after hundreds of passengers are airlifted to safety
A cruise liner that ran into trouble in rough seas off Norway was being towed to port on Sunday after hundreds of passengers had been helicoptered to safety. The Viking Sky lost power and started drifting mid-afternoon Saturday in perilous waters about 2 kilometers (1.2 ...
Japan to use Osprey aircraft for overseas rescue operations: sources
The government plans to introduce a special operations variant of the U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft for Self-Defense Forces to conduct dangerous and covert missions abroad.
The active search for the remaining missing crew member from a Japanese commercial ship that caught fire earlier in the week has been suspended, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday. Twenty of the vessel's 21 crew members had been accounted for as of Wednesday after ...
Study finds 80% of rescue hashtags were unrelated to emergencies during July deluge
A vast majority of uses of the hashtag #kyūjo — which means rescue in Japanese — posted on Twitter during the deadly flooding last summer were unrelated to calls for help.
The 12 Thai boys and soccer coach who were rescued from a flooded cave will be discharged from hospital on Wednesday and hold a news conference the same day to satisfy huge media interest in their story, a government official said. "We want to reduce ...
Four boys from Thai soccer team trapped in flooded cave are rescued
Four of 12 schoolboys have been rescued so far from a flooded Thai cave after divers launched a daring and dangerous mission to free the children and their soccer coach, who were trapped underground for more than two weeks, Thai officials said. "I have received ...
Entrepreneur Musk sends team to Thailand to help rescue 13 trapped deep inside cave
A Thai official said two members of the engineering team dispatched by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk are due to arrive late Saturday to help with efforts to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave. Another engineer was already in the ...
Rescuers weigh 'alternative' routes to save 13 trapped in Thai cave
Rescuers in Thailand are trying to find alternative ways to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped inside a cave complex for 13 days, as teams brace for heavy rain which could further delay the operation. "We are trying to find alternative techniques to ...
130 rescued after heavy rain leaves them stranded at Hokkaido hot spring
Some 130 people who had been stranded at a hot spring resort in Hokkaido were rescued Wednesday after torrential rains triggered landslides in the area the previous day. The people who were staying at Tenninkyo hot spring in the town of Higashikawa walked across what ...
Fishing boat sinks in storm off Miyagi; crew of 18 rescued
All 18 crew members aboard a 32-meter fishing boat that started sinking Wednesday in stormy weather about 850 km east of Miyagi Prefecture were rescued by nearby vessels, according to the Japan Coast Guard. The 122-ton Koryo Maru No. 68 from Kochi Prefecture, which had ...
New EU sea mission no longer requires ships to take migrants only to Italy
The European Union's border agency Frontex launched a new Mediterranean operation called Themis on Thursday, removing the obligation of the previous mission to bring rescued migrants only to Italy. Italy has repeatedly lamented a lack of EU solidarity in managing immigration. The previous Frontex operation, ...
Four missing climbers airlifted to Hokkaido hospital in rescue from Mount Asahidake
Four climbers who were reported missing this week on snowy Mount Asahidake, the highest peak in Hokkaido, were taken to a hospital Thursday without any life-threatening injuries, police said. A rescue helicopter winched the four — two Japanese and two foreigners — to safety earlier ...
