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UK’s crumbling canals threatened with collapse
AFP, Published on 11/02/2026
» WHITCHURCH, England - On a misty winter’s day in the English midlands, engineers struggled to drag stranded narrowboats from a waterless, mud-filled canal that collapsed weeks earlier, in a delicate, multi-million-pound rescue operation.
Ukraine drone attack damages Russian tanker
AFP, Published on 05/08/2023
» KYIV: A Russian tanker was damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack in the Kerch Strait, briefly halting traffic on the strategic bridge linking Crimea to Russia on Saturday, a day after one of Moscow's warships was hit in the Black Sea.
Russia says thwarted Ukraine attacks on Black Sea naval base, Crimea
AFP, Published on 04/08/2023
» MOSCOW: Russia said Friday it had thwarted Ukrainian sea and air drone attacks on a naval base in the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula.
Burnt-out car transport ship limps into Dutch port
AFP, Published on 03/08/2023
» EEMSHAVEN (NETHERLANDS) - A burnt-out freighter carrying thousands of cars was towed into a Dutch port on Thursday, as an environmental disaster was averted more than a week after the ship caught fire off the coast.
Most oil removed from decaying tanker off Yemen
AFP, Published on 02/08/2023
» DUBAI: Most of the oil on board a rusting supertanker off war-torn Yemen has been moved to a replacement vessel in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill, the United Nations has said.
High winds feared as Rhodes fire rages
AFP, Published on 23/07/2023
» ATHENS: High winds forecast for Sunday are expected to hamper firefighters' battle to contain a blaze burning out of control on the Greek island of Rhodes, where some 30,000 people have been forced to evacuate.
UK anti-migration plan to become law
AFP, Published on 18/07/2023
» LONDON: Britain's controversial plan to deter migrants without papers from landing on British shores is poised to become law, prompting criticism from the United Nations.
World's biggest warship visits Oslo, angering Russia
AFP, Published on 25/05/2023
» OSLO: The world's biggest warship, the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, arrived in Oslo on Wednesday for a stopover criticised by neighbouring Russia as an "illogical and harmful" show of force.
Russian captain of US ship taken by pirates off Gabon
AFP, Published on 03/05/2023
» LIBREVILLE: The Russian skipper of a US-owned bulk carrier was kidnapped along with two of his officers, both Georgian, when their vessel was attacked by pirates outside a Gabonese port, officials said Wednesday.
In Iraq, Saddam's ageing superyachts attest to legacy of excess, war
AFP, Published on 14/03/2023
» BASRA (IRAQ) - Frozen in time for 20 years, two superyachts lie at the confluence of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, bearing witness to the false glories of former dictator Saddam Hussein.