Stricken migrant ship due to dock
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A ship carrying hundreds of migrants, which has spent a week off the coast of Mauritania, is due to dock.
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Twenty-strong crew saved after Greek-registered cargo ship gets into difficulties in Channel
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A stricken cargo ship off the Devon coast sinks in "very rough weather", the Coastguard says.
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Rescue operations are under way after two ships run aground amid stormy seas
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The operation to lift the tug which sank in the River Clyde, drowning three crewmen, is set to get under way.
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The stricken Canadian submarine HMCS Chicoutimi is being transported back to its home base.
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TUNISâA ship carrying illegal immigrants to Italy sank off Tunisia, killing at least 22 people and leaving another 42 missing, news reports said yesterday, sharpening the debate in Italy over how to deal with hundreds of people trying to slip into
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An operation is under way to evacuate an oil rig off Aberdeen in the North Sea, following a security alert.
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A rescue operation has been launched off the west of Scotland to help the crew of a Latvian cargo ship in trouble in heavy seas.
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A newly-wed couple are among those lifted to safety after a ship was hit by a giant wave off the Isles of Scilly.
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Salvage teams fear for three stranded ships, with warnings of more bad weather across the country
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A passenger ferry rammed the outer dock at the Mukilteo terminal north of Seattle on Friday, injuring at least one person and damaging the vessel and some pilings.
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ATHENS (Der Spiegel) - According to recent reports resulting from October fact-finding missions conducted by the German Working Group on Refugees, Pro Asyl, and the Greek Group, Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants, the Greek coast guard has not only been rejecting but torturing asylum seekers that are arriving in ever greater numbers on the Aegean coast.  Refugee organisations are demanding a response at the European level. ...refugee seekers' boats, often barely afloat, are being forced out of Greece's territorial waters. Some passengers are being set ashore on uninhabited islands on the Turkish Greek border region, provided with no water or food... It is hardly a secret that Greece has shown reluctance recently to accept refugees and asylum seekers. Earlier this year, the Mediterranean country was lampooned for the fact that it turned down almost all of the asylum applications it received from Iraqis fleeing violence back home.  But now it looks as though Greece may be in blatant violation of human rights norms. Reports released this month by Greek and German refugee organisations suggest that the Greek coast guard in the Aegean Sea has been systematically maltreating and obstructing asylum seekers arriving on their shores. Fact-finding missions conducted in summer and October of 2007 by Pro Asyl and Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants found that refugee seekers' boats, often barely afloat, are being forced out of Greece's territorial waters. Some passengers are being set ashore on uninhabited islands on the Turkish Greek border region, provided with no water or food.  The investigative missions visited three detention centers on Greek islands and found the conditions to be "degrading and inhuman." In one case, on the island of Chios, there were reports of electric shock treatments, mock executions and beatings. In an independent report, the Greek branch of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), described the detention center on Samos, an island less than two kilometers from the Turkish coast, as being "deplorable" and demanded that the government close it down. Fully 391 people were found living in a room designed for 120. The staff consisted of one doctor, one social worker and a caretaker. Read more...
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There is a corner of the picturesque harbour at Lampedusa which is a graveyard - for the fishing boats aboard which so many migrants from North Africa have made perilous and overcrowded journeys.
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Madrid: French and Spanish rescue aircraft and boats yesterday assisted a cruise ship limping along in the Mediterranean with more than 700 people aboard after a storm knocked out its engines.
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Salvage crews are trying to recover a stricken ferry and trawler that ran aground off the UK in severe weather.
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Divers are to examine the hull of a container ship which has been refloated nearly six months after its grounding off the Devon coast.