Scott Ruskan (Image credits: X @nicksortor) A US coast guard rescue swimmer is being hailed as an “American hero” after saving 165 lives during his first-ever mission, a response to deadly flash flooding in Texas that has claimed the lives of at least 82 people, with many still unaccounted for.Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem praised […]
MEXICO: Flossie has strengthened into a hurricane off Mexico’s southwestern Pacific coast. The US National Hurricane Center in Miami said Flossie became a Category 1 hurricane Monday night and has maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph). The hurricane center said Flossie was moving west-northwest off the Mexican coast and was about 175 miles […]
Smoke rises from cargo vessel Morning Midas approximately 300 miles south of Adak (Image credits: AP) A cargo ship transporting nearly 3,000 vehicles to Mexico sank in the North Pacific Ocean on Monday, weeks after a fire forced its crew to abandon the vessel. The ship, named Morning Midas, went down in international waters off […]
The body of the superyacht Bayesian, which sank near Palermo, Sicily, on August 19, 2024 is lifted by cranes during salvage operations off the village of Porticciolo (Image credit: AP) A British-flagged luxury yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily, Italy last year killing UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and six others was lifted […]
The Front Eagle, carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil to Zhoushan, China, collided at 13.1 knots with the Adalynn, which was heading empty toward the Suez Canal/ Image resolution reconstructed with AI In the early hours of Tuesday, June 17, two large vessels, oil tanker ADALYNN and cargo ship Front Eagle, collided approximately 24 […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) ABIDJAN: Four prominent opposition figures in Ivory Coast have been excluded from the final electoral list, officials announced on Wednesday, leaving them ineligible to contest presidential elections later this year.Tidjane Thiam, leader of the main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast (PDCI), was struck from the voter roll in April […]
A small plane carrying a 41-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl crashed into the Long Island Sound off the coast of Connecticut on Sunday morning, but both miraculously survived with only minor injuries, according to the New York Post.The six-seater Piper PA-32 went down near the Thimble Islands around 10.30 am, about ten minutes after […]
US Coast Guard intercepts smugglers in eastern Pacific ocean, drugs worth millions seized Watch: US Coast Guard intercepts smugglers in eastern Pacific ocean, drugs worth millions seizedA viral video released by the US Coast Guard shows a gripping drug interdiction operation in the eastern Pacific Ocean, where service members aboard the USCGC Kimball executed a […]
ABIDJAN: A boat overturned during a church outing for Easter on a lagoon near the city of Abidjan in Ivory Coast, killing 12 children and teenagers, a government minister told AFP Tuesday.“Twelve bodies have been recovered and are being taken to the morgue,” said Sports Minister Adje Silas Metch, who went during the night to […]
A fisherman died on Sunday after being swept off rocks near Sydney, pushing the Easter weekend drowning toll in Australia to six, with two more still missing as massive swells continued to batter the country’s eastern coast.Emergency services were called to Wattamolla Beach, south of Sydney, where two people had been dragged into the surf […]
