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09 OCT 2025 India’s fishing community is again complaining about merchant ships sailing too close to the coast and hitting the commercial fishing vessels working off Kerala on the Arabian Sea. In the latest instance, a smaller MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company containership collided with one of the fishing vessels, causing …

08 OCT 2025 The Belgian police ended the blockade by Greenpeace protestors of the Zeebrugge LNG terminal. The group confirmed its activists have been removed and arrested after 29 hours while its sailboat was moved to a dock in the port, and the flow of LNG carriers has resumed. As …

07 0CT 2025 The Helsinki District Court issued a surprise judgment on Friday, October 3, in the case of the master and two officers from the tanker Eagle S who had been charged with aggravated vandalism related to the damage to sub-sea cables. While saying the damage had occurred due …

06 OCT 2025 After repeated warnings not to attempt to approach the Gaza coastline, and calls for the boats to turn back, israeli forces intercepted the boats in the global flotilla before they could reach Gaza. The organizers confirmed that 21 boats had been intercepted, while they had lost contact …

05 OCT 2025 The activist flotilla bound for Gaza ignored repeated calls for it to turn back or to hand over the material aboard its vessels, and is now reporting that an interception has begun as it neared the coastline. The group has repeatedly accused the Israelis of harassment, while …

05 OCT 2025 Could tattoos be the secret weapon in the fight against skin cancer? It might sound incredibly unlikely at first, but new research suggests there’s more to tattoo ink than meets the eye, especially when it comes to melanoma risk. For years, people worried about the possible health …