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Japan asks IAEA for expert help: UN watchdog chief

Japan has officially asked the UN atomic watchdog to send a team of experts to help in the current nuclear crisis, ...

US navy ship ordered out of port as tsunami looms

A US Navy ship docked south of Los Angeles was ordered out into open water on Friday, as a precautionary measure due ...

Canada ship sets off to join US flotilla near Libya

The war ship HMCS Charlottetown set sail from the port of Halifax in eastern Canada Wednesday to join a US-led ...

Canada closes embassy in Libya

Canada shuttered its embassy in Libya on Saturday and evacuated official personnel on a military transport plane, a ...

Turkey helps other countries in Libya evacuations

Turkish army vessels carried around 1,700 Turks and foreign nationals from Libya`s flashpoint city of Benghazi ...

Asia plans mass rescue of citizens from Libya

Asian nations on Wednesday prepared "mammoth" evacuation plans for more than 100,000 migrants trapped in Libya, many ...

Somali pirates use captive crew to attack vessels - hostage

Somali pirates forced a hostage crew to hijack vessels in exchange for freedom, a released seaman said on Tuesday, ...

S.Africa deploys warship to fight piracy: report

South Africa has deployed a frigate to the Mozambique Channel off east Africa to help fight the southward creep of ...

Navy arrests illegal Vietnamese fishing boats

The Indonesian navy had intercepted and caught two Vietnamese fishing boats while illegally operating in the Natuna ...

Chinese vessel not hijacked: State media

A Chinese-flagged commercial ship reportedly hijacked by Somali pirates was safe and being escorted by anti-piracy ...

Somali pirates quit one Puntland base, head south

Somali pirates abandoned one of their main bases in Somalia`s semi-autonomous Puntland region fearing local security ...

Somali pirates could face S.Korea criminal charges

Five suspected Somali pirates captured after a mission to rescue a hijacked ship have been brought to South Korea to ...

Counter-terror tactics needed to fight pirates: US

A US Navy admiral on Wednesday called for using counter-terrorism tactics against Somali pirates, warning the gangs ...

Philippine boy survives three days at sea

A 15-year-old Philippine schoolboy who was sent alone to sea by his grandmother to fish survived three days adrift ...