The other 13 members of the boat returned safely to shore and were not injured. At an earlier press conference, the head of the fire department said there were 19 people on the boat and the report received at 3:37 p.m. reported that a boat was on fire. Later Tuesday night, he said witness accounts
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Throughout its negotiations with the United States, Iran has insisted that it has the right to control movement through the strait and introduce tariffs for the passage of ships. The United States and its Gulf allies, as well as governments in Europe and Asia, oppose this and say passage through the strait must return to
Scientists are the first to capture video images of the Quest, Ernest Shackleton’s last ship. The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, in association with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, conducted an expedition in the Labrador Sea off the coast of Newfoundland to survey the shipwreck where Ernest Shackleton ultimately died in 1922. The Quest was the
North Korea’s new naval destroyer, which suffered a launch failure last May, is now seaworthy and testing its weapons systems, state media reported. State-run Korea Central Television on Sunday broadcast footage of the ship firing its main gun and autocannon, as well as several vertically launched missiles. The state media Korean Central News Agency reported