Gunmen aboard small boats launched a coordinated assault on a commercial vessel in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen on Sunday, using rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and small arms fire, according to international maritime monitors. British military officials later said the ship was taking on water and the crew was preparing to abandon the […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (Image credit: AP) United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday the world could not let the deepest oceans “become the wild west”, at the start in France of a global summit on the seas.World leaders are attending the UN Ocean Conference in Nice as nations tussle over contentious […]
A vessel en route to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid with climate activist Greta Thunberg on board has rescued several migrants from the Mediterranean Sea near Crete, an island in Greece. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, of which Greta is a member, launched the vessel named Madleen, which had received a distress signal from a boat […]
Ukraine’s security agency claimed a massive drone attack on June 1 which severely damaged Russia’s long-range air strike capabilities, causing an estimated $7 billion in destruction and disabling 34% of its cruise missile bombers. Called “Spider Web,” the operation reportedly struck four key Russian airbases, targeting aircraft regularly used to launch missiles on Ukrainian cities. […]
The Russian captain of a cargo ship that collided with a US tanker in the North Sea pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of one of his crew at a U.K. court hearing on Friday. Vladimir Motin, 59, from St Petersburg, appeared by video link from prison for the pretrial hearing at London’s Central Criminal […]
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (Image: AP) Malaysia is set to host the 46th edition of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Summit from 26 to 27 May. The summit will bring together leaders from Southeast Asian nations to discuss key regional issues, including economic cooperation, security and sustainable development.Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim […]
Government handout photo shows five shipwrecked fishermen wearing lifejackets, who were rescued by an Ecuadorian tuna fishing boat after being adrift for more than 50 days, at the San Cristobal Naval Base, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador (AP photo) QUITO: Five fishermen who spent 55 days adrift at sea arrived Saturday at a port in the Galapagos […]
Aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman (Image: AP) WASHINGTON: A multi-million-dollar US warplane failed to land on the Harry S Truman aircraft carrier and plummeted into the Red Sea on Tuesday, the US military said, the second jet lost from the ship in just over a week.The two-seat F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet, worth around […]
TOKYO : Japan and China are accusing each other of violating the airspace around the Japanese-controlled East China Sea islands that Beijing also claims. Japan’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that it has protested to Beijing after a Chinese helicopter that took off from one of China’s four coast guard boats had entered Japan’s […]
Ukrainian drone downs Russian Su-30 fighter jet Ukraine destroyed a Russian Su-30 fighter jet using a missile fired from a seaborne drone, the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence (DIU) announced on Saturday, and said this was the world’s first downing of a combat aircraft by a maritime drone.“On May 2, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine special operations […]
