Passenger vessel Polesie-8 and a barge collided in the Irtysh River, 10 kilometers off the Russian city of Omsk, on Saturday at about 1:20 p.m. local time. Initial reports stated that 4 people were killed and more than 30 injured in the accident. The Polesie was traveling from Omsk to Achir. Near the village…
A ferry with nearly 700 people aboard sank near the central Philippine port of Cebu on Friday night after colliding with a cargo vessel, and a survivor said he saw bodies in the sea. The captain of the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas ordered the ship abandoned after it began listing and then sank after…
India’s navy said on Friday divers had found the bodies of three sailors who were on board a submarine badly damaged by a fire and explosions and that it was unlikely any of 15 other missing crew members would be found alive. Eighteen sailors were missing after weapons stored in the forward section of…
The countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will speak as one to convince China to negotiate a binding agreement on conduct in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), a stand that was reached after initial discord on the contentious issue. Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said Saturday ministers…