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World begins to bid goodbye to 2025 with fireworks and icy plunges
Reuters, Published on 31/12/2025
» Dec 31 - 10...nine...eight...As Wednesday turned to Thursday, people around the world said goodbye to a sometimes challenging 2025 and expressed hopes for the new year to come.
'Organised chaos': $19bn airport megaproject takes shape in cramped NY
AFP, Published on 19/03/2025
» JOHN F. KENNEDY AIRPORT (UNITED STATES) — New York's JFK airport is an overlapping patchwork of open terminals, giant building sites and burgeoning infrastructure, wedged in by thousands of homes on one side and the ocean on the other.
Brazil ridding rainforest of illegal gold mines
Reuters, Published on 14/09/2024
» SURUCUCU, Brazil - Brazilian authorities say they have almost squashed the illegal gold rush that drew thousands of wildcat miners to Yanomami indigenous land in the Amazon rainforest and caused a humanitarian crisis of disease and malnutrition.
China building world's first 'dedicated' drone carrier, satellite images suggest
South China Morning Post, Published on 17/05/2024
» HONG KONG: The new aircraft carrier, the building of which has not been publicised by Beijing, could underline China's aims to advance the military use of drones and their deployment in battle.
Stranded Thai ship finally exits Baltimore port
Reuters and Online Reporters, Published on 27/04/2024
» A Thai-flagged vessel is among four cargo ships that have exited the Port of Baltimore via a temporary channel, after being stranded for a month following the collapse of a major bridge.
First aid ship departs Cyprus for Gaza
Reuters, Published on 12/03/2024
» LARNACA, Cyprus - A ship taking almost 200 tonnes of food to Gaza left a port in Cyprus early on Tuesday in a pilot project to open a new sea route for aid to a population on the brink of famine.
Singapore bunker fuel schedules tighten, premiums rise on Red Sea impact
Reuters, Published on 25/01/2024
» SINGAPORE - Shippers and trading firms are facing longer waits and higher prices for low-sulphur fuel deliveries at Singapore, the world's top bunker hub, as refuelling demand rises due to ship diversions from Red Sea tensions, industry sources told Reuters.
The mighty Mississippi, America's water highway, is dangerously low
AFP, Published on 24/10/2023
» MEMPHIS - In the middle of the shrunken Mississippi, a barge drags a giant metal-edged suction head along the riverbed to remove sediment from shipping lanes.
UK starts returning asylum seekers to barge
Reuters, Published on 19/10/2023
» PORTLAND, England - Britain began returning asylum seekers to a barge on its southern coast on Thursday, two months after it was forced to remove them because Legionella bacteria were found in the vessel’s water supply.
Migrants on France's Channel coast undeterred by latest deaths
AFP, Published on 13/08/2023
» LOON-PLAGE, France: "Crossing the Channel, it's playing with our lives," Hajji Mahmud acknowledged.