BEIRUT: The bodies of 33 Lebanese who drowned off the Indonesian coast in a tragic boat accident last month will be returned to Lebanon Thursday, a source at Beirut’s Airport told The Daily Star Tuesday. The bodies will arrive at Rafik Hariri’s International Airport at 12:30 p.m., the source said. The National News Agency…
The biennial Regional Conference of the Global Initiative for West, Central and Southern Africa (GI WACAF Project) will be held from the 4 to 8 November, in Swakopmund, Namibia, and will be jointly organized by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), IPIECA (the global oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues), and…
South Korean forces conduct a military drill on disputed islands at the heart of a row with Japan. This outcrop may be small but it’s been the cause of a long-running bitter dispute between the two nations, that has seriously damaged ties. Both countries lay claims to the islands known as Dokdo in Korean…
An action packed scene from Sony Pictures’ latest epic ‘Captain Phillips’, starring Tom Hanks. SOMALI pirates are in the news again. Kidnappings, ship hijacks, a run-in with the Australian navy and a Tom Hanks movie have put them back in the spotlight. But, despite several high profile incidents off the Horn of Africa, the…