December 9, 2023
The UNHCR, the U.N.’s refugee agency, reported Monday that about 400 Rohingya Muslim refugees are adrift on the Andaman Sea, located off the South Asian coast. The refugees, believed to have set sail from Bangladesh, are allegedly out of supplies and in distress. “There are about 400 children, women and men looking death in the
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Rental boats are causing chaos on Melbourne’s Yarra River, and rowers have had enough of it. They are calling for changes and oversight into rental boats, fed up with renters’ blatant disregard for river safety rules that is putting other users – especially young rowers – at risk. Their frustration has boiled over after a
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Sailors in southwestern Europe have been struggling with an increase in attacks Animal behaviouralists say they don’t know why killer whales are acting this way By Sam Tonkin Published: 07:56 EST, 20 November 2023 | Updated: 07:58 EST, 20 November 2023 Sailors have started to blast out heavy metal music through underwater speakers in a
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Updated: 13/11/2023 – 19:03 Palestinian fishermen despaired on Sunday as they inspected the charred remains of their boats following a strike on the Nuseirat Beach in the central Gaza Strip, amid ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas militants. Palestinian fishermen despaired on Sunday as they inspected the charred remains of their boats following a strike
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Four more boats have reportedly been found at the bottom of Mexico’s Acapulco bay. The Mexican navy’s latest discoveries bring the total number of vessels sunken by Hurricane Otis to 33. The Category 5 storm has also left some 47 people confirmed dead. The Mexican navy said Tuesday that four more boats have been located
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Along the border wall separating Israel and the Gaza Strip, tens of thousands of soldiers are making the final preparations for a full-scale ground invasion. But soon, the sight of massed troops might seem as much a relic of the past as knights on horseback appear to us now. That’s because the wars of the
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China’s sweeping territorial claims in the South China Sea, including over islands closer to the Philippine shore, have raised tensions in the area. ADVERTISEMENT A Chinese coast guard ship and an accompanying vessel rammed a Philippine coast guard ship and a military-run supply boat Sunday off a contested shoal, Philippine officials said, in an encounter
READ MORETwo Philippine supply boats breached a Chinese coast guard blockade in the South China Sea on Wednesday in a recurring confrontation near a disputed shoal some fear could spark a larger security crisis that could draw in the United States. Two Philippine coast guard ships escorted the smaller supply boats, but it wasn’t immediately clear
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Faced with China’s determination to exert control over a vast area of the South China Sea far from its mainland, the Philippine Coast Guard said Monday that it had taken matters into its own hands, taking down a Chinese barrier that had kept Filipino fishing boats at bay. The Coast Guard released video of a
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