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April 21, 2025
These are the most popular stories from the Financial Times. These stories have not been verified and we cannot vouch for the accuracy of these stories. Estonia warns that lifting Russia sanctions would harm EU taxpayers. The British Finance…
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April 17, 2025
The Philippine Coast Guard reported on Thursday that four people, including one Chinese national, were killed and seven are still missing after a 25-person dredging boat capsized in a province of western Philippines two days earlier. PCG stated that the MV Hong Hai 16 had 2…
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April 28, 2025
These are the most popular stories from the New York Times' business pages. These stories have not been verified and we cannot vouch for the accuracy of these reports. On Sunday night, a boat that was carrying dozens of passengers struck the ferry near the Memorial Causeway Bridge. The U.S.
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May 5, 2025
State media reported that nine people were killed when "sudden powerful winds" capsized 4 tourist boats in Southwestern China and swept 84 people into water. The Xinhua News Agency reported that a person was still missing and the search for her was continuing…
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March 27, 2025
The local governor's offices confirmed that six foreigners died when a tourist sub sank near the Red Sea resort of Hurghada in Egypt. However, they did not confirm the nationalities. The Russian consulate at Hurghada confirmed that the "SINDBAD"…
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March 18, 2025
According to a letter from a police source released on Monday, the parents of an Indian student who attended a U.S. college and went missing from a popular Dominican Republic tourist resort earlier this month have asked for police to declare their child legally dead. The investigation remains open.
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March 17, 2025
Cyprus's national broadcaster reported that seven bodies were recovered from the sea off Cyprus after authorities launched a search-and-rescue operation in response to a capsize of a boat containing migrants. The broadcaster reported that an unspecified number were believed to have gone missing.
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March 7, 2025
The International Organisation for Migration reported that more than 180 migrants were missing and believed to be dead after the two boats in which they were traveling capsized on rough seas near Yemen, Thursday. IOM reported that the boats…
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February 12, 2025
The Russian emergency ministry announced on Wednesday that some of the 300 Russians stranded in the Sea of Okhotsk, in the Western Pacific, refused to be evacuated. The ministry posted a message on Telegram saying that 109 fishermen were rescued by helicopters and boats…
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January 16, 2025
Walking Borders, a group that advocates for migrants' rights, said Thursday that as many as fifty migrants who attempted to reach Spain via boat from West Africa drowned. Moroccan authorities rescued 36 people on Wednesday from a boat which had left Mauritania in January…
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January 14, 2025
China's state broadcaster CCTV, citing the Chinese embassy in Thailand, reported that a Chinese tourist died and another was injured when their jet skis collided on Phuket Island, Thailand, Tuesday. CCTV reported that the cause of the incident is being investigated.
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January 1, 2025
The mayor of Lampedusa, an Italian island, said that seven migrants had been rescued but that at least twenty were still missing. Their boat was en route from Libya to Italy when it sank. One of those who survived was an eight-year-old Syrian child, who hoped to join his German-based father.
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November 30, 2024
A spokesperson for the Thai Defence Ministry stated that Myanmar's Navy opened fire on a boat group of Thai fishermen on Saturday. One fisherman drowned and 31 crew were detained from one of those boats. In a press release, Thanatip Sawangsang…
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November 25, 2024
Authorities said that the Greek coastguard found eight bodies - six women and two minors - of migrants who drowned in the Aegean sea off the island Samos. The coast guard reported that Greek police discovered 36 more people alive on Samos' northern coast.
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November 7, 2024
An official from the Jeju City Government said that two people were killed and 12 still remain missing after a boat capsized in the waters near South Korea's Jeju Island on Friday. Officials said that they had lost track of a boat leaving the port of Busan, South Korea in the early morning hours.
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October 15, 2024
The Russian authorities announced on Tuesday that they had rescued the man, whose boat drifted in the waters of the northwest Pacific for 67 consecutive days. However, his brother and nephew perished during the ordeal. Images on social media…
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September 16, 2024
Five people were rescued and three died when a fishing vessel capsized off the west coast of South Korea. The coast guard reported this on Monday. Yonhap reported that two South Koreans, and one Indonesian were among the dead. His office reported…
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September 12, 2024
LIMAY, Philippines, Sept 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation). - E fren Dominico has actually been a fisherman in the Bay of Manila in. the Philippines for 43 years and survived many storms, but. absolutely nothing prepared him for the day when an oil tanker sank off the.
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September 8, 2024
Italian media reported that the Italian coast guard had recovered six bodies near the coast of Sicily. The bodies are believed to be among the 21 people who were missing after a shipwreck involving migrants earlier in the month. Italian Coast Guard said that on Wednesday…
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September 4, 2024
Italian media and U.N. officials reported on Wednesday that seven people had been rescued, and 21 were still missing after a shipwreck of migrants off the coasts of Lampedusa and the Italian island. Reports said that the survivors were Syrians…
