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Pope Francis on Friday said European governments have a duty to rescue asylum-seekers who take to sea to escape conflict, warning against a "paralysis of fear, on the first day of a visit to the French Mediterranean city of Marseille.…
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An AeroGulf helicopter crashed into the sea on Thursday evening and a search is underway for its crew of two pilots, UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority said on Friday. The crash occurred off the coast of Dubai after the helicopter…
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Northern elephant seals are the true masters of the power nap. On long trips out to sea, the seals snooze less than 20 minutes at a time, researchers report in the April 21 Science. The animals average just two hours of shut-eye per day…
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The Italian coast guard is carrying out operations to rescue two boats carrying a total of 1,200 people, it said on Monday, after a surge in the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa over the weekend. One of the…
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Senior Chinese and Filipino diplomats were meeting in Manila on Thursday to review their relations amid thorny issues, including Beijing’s alarm over a Philippine decision to allow the US military to expand its presence to a northern region…
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North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the sea on Sunday, its neighbors said, ramping up testing activities in response to US-South Korean military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal. The missile launched…
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North Korea test-fired two short-range ballistic missiles Tuesday in another show of force after the US and South Korea began military drills that Pyongyang views as an invasion rehearsal, its neighbors said. The missiles were launched…
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A small earthquake that struck South Lebanon early on Wednesday sparked widespread panic as residents ran from their homes barefoot, with many saying they “feared for their children’s lives.” The 4.3-magnitude tremor, the latest in a…
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The wreck of the US destroyer Sammy B, which engaged a superior Japanese fleet in the largest naval battle of World War II, has become the deepest shipwreck ever discovered. The USS Samuel B Roberts, known as the Sammy B, was identified…
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The Philippines on Tuesday said it had filed a diplomatic protest with China for unilaterally declaring a South China Sea fishing ban, and complained also of harassment and violations of its jurisdiction by Beijing’s coast guard. The…
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