Iran Ship Said to Be Red Sea Troop Base off Yemen Attacked
An Iranian ship believed to be a base for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and anchored for years in the Red Sea off Yemen has been attacked, Tehran acknowledged Wednesday.
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Amazon Apologizes to Congressman for Bogus ‘Peeing’ Tweet
The company apologized in a late Friday blog post for a tweet it sent to a congressman more than a week ago denying that its employees work so hard they must urinate in empty water bottles.
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Suez Canal Reopens After Removal of Stranded Ship
It will take days for the backlog of ships waiting to transit the canal to be cleared after a stranded container vessel was finally freed.
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Maritime Traffic Jam Grows Outside Blocked Suez Canal
A maritime traffic jam grew to more than 200 vessels Friday outside the Suez Canal and some vessels began changing course as dredgers worked frantically to free a giant container ship that is stuck sideways in the waterway and disrupting global shipping.
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Stuck Ship in Egypt’s Suez Canal Imperils Shipping Worldwide
A skyscraper-sized cargo ship wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal further imperiled global shipping Thursday as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled waiting for the obstruction to clear, authorities said.
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Massive Cargo Ship Becomes Wedged, Blocks Egypt’s Suez Canal
A skyscraper-sized container ship has become wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal and blocked all traffic in the vital waterway, officials said Wednesday, threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Amazon Hit With New Worker-Safety Claims in New York
Just a week ago, the online retail giant had filed suit to block the investigations supporting the New York attorney general’s latest filing.
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Amazon Buys 11 Jets for 1st Time to Ship Orders Faster
Amazon said Tuesday that it bought 11 jets from Delta and WestJet airlines to boost its growing delivery network and get orders to shoppers faster.
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South Korean Tanker Was Boarded by Armed Iran Guard Forces
Armed Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops stormed a South Korean tanker and forced the ship to change course and travel to Iran, the vessel’s owner said Tuesday, the latest maritime seizure by Tehran amid heightened tensions with the West over its nuclear program.
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Iran Starts 20% Uranium Enrichment, Seizes South Korean Ship
Iran began enriching uranium Monday to levels unseen since its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and also seized a South Korean-flagged tanker near the crucial Strait of Hormuz, a double-barreled challenge to the West that further raised Mideast tensions.
Read moreFAA Outlines New Rules for Drones and Their Operators
Federal officials say they will allow operators to fly small drones over people and at night, potentially giving a boost to commercial use of the machines.
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Russian Fishing Trawler Sinks in Barents Sea, 17 Missing
A Russian fishing trawler sank Monday in the northern Barents Sea and 17 of its crew are still missing, emergency officials said. Two other crew members have been rescued.
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Anti-Virus Controls Strand Merchant Sailors Aboard Ships
The crew of the U.S.-owned Horizon Spirit expect to spend Christmas looking after their 800-foot long container ship in a southern Chinese shipyard, barred, like thousands of sailors worldwide, from going ashore due to coronavirus restrictions.
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General Sorry for ‘Miscommunication’ Over Vaccine Shipments
The Army general in charge of getting Covid-19 vaccines across the United States apologized on Saturday for “miscommunication” with states over the number of doses to be delivered in the early stages of distribution.
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‘External Source’ Causes Oil Tanker Blast Off Saudi Arabia
An oil tanker off Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jiddah suffered an explosion early Monday after being hit by “an external source,” a shipping company said, suggesting another vessel has come under attack off the kingdom amid its yearslong war in Yemen.
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German Defense Minister Rejects Turkey Complaint Over Search
Germany’s defense minister on Tuesday rejected Turkey’s complaints over the search of a Turkish freighter in the Mediterranean Sea by a German frigate participating in a European mission, insisting that German sailors acted correctly.
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Turkey Probes Istanbul Mayor in Fight Over ‘Crazy’ Canal
Turkey’s interior ministry has launched a probe into the Istanbul mayor over his opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s dream of building an alternative to the Bosphorus Strait, the mayor’s spokesman said Monday.
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Painstaking Race Against Time to Uncover Viking Ship’s Secrets
Inch by inch, they gently pick through the soil in search of thousand-year-old relics. Racing against onsetting mold yet painstakingly meticulous, archeologists in Norway are exhuming a rare Viking ship grave in hopes of uncovering the secrets within.
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Covid-19 Case Hits 1st Caribbean Cruise Since Pandemic
One of the first cruise ships to ply through Caribbean waters since the pandemic began ended its trip early after one passenger fell ill and is believed to have Covid-19, officials said Thursday.
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7 Held for Suspected Tanker Hijack after UK Commando Raid
Seven stowaways seized when British naval special forces stormed an oil tanker in the English Channel have been arrested on suspicion of hijacking, police said Monday.
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