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Dubbed as Australia's "worst maritime disaster", the ship was torpedoed while it was travelling from Papua New Guinea to China's Hainan by a US submarine.

The accident came as a cold snap hits much of Asia, with daytime temperatures in some of the Japanese islands nearest the rescue site reaching just three degrees Celsius.

Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX ship on Wednesday, alongside one Japanese and two American astronauts. Kikina is the only female Russian cosmonaut in service and is part of the Crew-5 mission. Ensuring the operation of the ISS has become one of the few remaining areas of cooperation be...

The Japanese government termed the Chinese action "a violation of international law. It is truly regretful, and we cannot accept it."

Megaship the MV Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal for six days in March, weighed anchor Wednesday following a compensation deal between Egypt and the vessel's Japanese owner after having been impounded for more than 100 days.

Japanese coast guard ships and aircraft were searching on Friday for three missing crew of a cargo ship that capsized and sank after a collision with a Marshall Islands-registered tanker in the Seto Inland Sea, authorities said.

Up to 25 Indians remain on the MV Ever Given, the container ship that had got stuck in the Suez Channel from March 23 till yesterday, the ship's authorities have said. The crew has been aiding the efforts to free it, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) informed in a media statement. The German company is responsible for the technical management o...

Indian Navy and Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) ships conducted operations in close formation at JIMEX-2020, the 4th edition of India-Japan Maritime bilateral exercise.

The Japanese operator of a ship that leaked oil off the Mauritius coast pledged Friday to pay at least $9.4 million to help restore areas affected by the spill.

At least 40 dolphins have mysteriously died in an area of Mauritius affected by an oil spill from a Japanese boat, officials and witnesses said on Friday, as a witness described the moment one mother dolphin died in front of him.

Seventeen dead dolphins washed up on Mauritius's shore on Wednesday, a government official told Reuters, a month after an oil spill from a Japanese ship that ran aground caused a major ecological disaster in the area.

Seven more dead dolphins were found on a Mauritius beach on Thursday, a government official said, a day after 17 carcasses were washed up near an oil spill caused by a Japanese ship that struck a coral reef.

India has sent technical equipment and a team of specialists to Mauritius to help local authorities deal with an environmental crisis after an oil spill from a Japanese ship, a government official said on Sunday.

A ship that has leaked more than 1,000 tonnes of oil in pristine waters off the Mauritius coast has split into two, its Japanese operator said Sunday.

A Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground off Mauritius and has leaked at least an estimated 1,000 tonnes of oil, passed the latest annual inspection in March with no problems, Japan's ClassNK inspection body said on Tuesday.

Dubbed as Australia's "worst maritime disaster", the ship was torpedoed while it was travelling from Papua New Guinea to China's Hainan by a US submarine.

The accident came as a cold snap hits much of Asia, with daytime temperatures in some of the Japanese islands nearest the rescue site reaching just three degrees Celsius.

Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX ship on Wednesday, alongside one Japanese and two American astronauts. Kikina is the only female Russian cosmonaut in service and is part of the Crew-5 mission. Ensuring the operation of the ISS has become one of the few remaining areas of cooperation be...

The Japanese government termed the Chinese action "a violation of international law. It is truly regretful, and we cannot accept it."

Megaship the MV Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal for six days in March, weighed anchor Wednesday following a compensation deal between Egypt and the vessel's Japanese owner after having been impounded for more than 100 days.

Japanese coast guard ships and aircraft were searching on Friday for three missing crew of a cargo ship that capsized and sank after a collision with a Marshall Islands-registered tanker in the Seto Inland Sea, authorities said.

Up to 25 Indians remain on the MV Ever Given, the container ship that had got stuck in the Suez Channel from March 23 till yesterday, the ship's authorities have said. The crew has been aiding the efforts to free it, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) informed in a media statement. The German company is responsible for the technical management o...

Indian Navy and Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) ships conducted operations in close formation at JIMEX-2020, the 4th edition of India-Japan Maritime bilateral exercise.

The Japanese operator of a ship that leaked oil off the Mauritius coast pledged Friday to pay at least $9.4 million to help restore areas affected by the spill.

At least 40 dolphins have mysteriously died in an area of Mauritius affected by an oil spill from a Japanese boat, officials and witnesses said on Friday, as a witness described the moment one mother dolphin died in front of him.

Seventeen dead dolphins washed up on Mauritius's shore on Wednesday, a government official told Reuters, a month after an oil spill from a Japanese ship that ran aground caused a major ecological disaster in the area.

Seven more dead dolphins were found on a Mauritius beach on Thursday, a government official said, a day after 17 carcasses were washed up near an oil spill caused by a Japanese ship that struck a coral reef.

India has sent technical equipment and a team of specialists to Mauritius to help local authorities deal with an environmental crisis after an oil spill from a Japanese ship, a government official said on Sunday.

A ship that has leaked more than 1,000 tonnes of oil in pristine waters off the Mauritius coast has split into two, its Japanese operator said Sunday.

A Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground off Mauritius and has leaked at least an estimated 1,000 tonnes of oil, passed the latest annual inspection in March with no problems, Japan's ClassNK inspection body said on Tuesday.