seized a tugboat and detained its 12 Filipino crew members on suspicion of smuggling diesel fuel in the Persian Gulf, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported Saturday./ 5th Fleet was aware of the report but declined further comment, Cmdr. Joshua Frey, a spokesman, said./ In Manila, the ...
flagged tanker Stena Impero remains anchored off the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas after the Revolutionary Guards impounded it on July 19 for breaking "international maritime rules" (AFP Photo/Hasan Shirvani)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran seized a boat and arrested 12 Filipinos as it busted a ...
Iran’s coast guard has seized a foreign tugboat suspected of smuggling fuel in the Gulf and detained its 12 Filipino crew members, state television reported on Saturday. It said the tugboat was carrying nearly 284,000 liters of diesel. The report did not say what national flag the vessel was ...
Iran's coast guard has seized a foreign tugboat suspected of smuggling fuel in the Gulf and detained its 12 Filipino crew members, state television reported on Saturday. It said the tugboat was carrying nearly 284,000 liters of diesel. The report did not say what national flag the vessel was ...
Iran’s coast guard has seized a vessel for allegedly smuggling fuel in the Gulf and detained its 12 crew members from the Philippines, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported. The vessel was carrying nearly 284,000 liters of diesel, the news agency said on Saturday. Iran, which has some of ...
33AM [Updated: Sat Sep 7, 2019 10:43AM ]/ Iran says it has dismantled a fuel smuggling ring after seizing a Philippine tanker in the Persian Gulf and taking its crew into custody. Colonel Hossein Dahaki, the commander of Hormozgan Province coastguard, said Saturday that his forces had detained ...
old Zain Tafesh died from leukemia earlier this week/ In different wards of Nasser Hospital lie two 10-year-old boys, one shot by Israeli fire and paralysed from the neck down, another with a brain tumour. Now that a fragile ceasefire is in place, they are among some 15,000 patients who the ...
Michael Smuss, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland who resisted the Nazis, has died aged 99 in Israel. He joined the ghetto uprising as a teenager in 1943, helping to make petrol bombs. Taken prisoner, he survived concentration camps and a death march before the end of World War II. After ...
Marco Rubio warned of "bumps in the road" but said the US is committed to making the peace plan work/ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said "a lot of countries" have offered to be part of an international security force for Gaza - a key part of President Donald Trump's peace plan - but ...
The bodies of the dead Palestinians were transferred by the Red Cross in refrigerated lorries/ Out of a single room, with no DNA testing facilities or cold storage units of its own, the forensics team at Gaza's Nasser hospital face the challenges brought by peace. Over the past eleven days, 195 ...
An Israeli annexation of West Bank would threaten peace deal/ US Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have criticised a move by Israel's parliament towards annexation of the occupied West Bank. On Wednesday, far-right politicians in the Knesset took the symbolic step of ...
The Israeli military is exerting control over more of Gaza than expected from the ceasefire deal with Hamas, a BBC Verify analysis has found. Under the first stage of the deal, Israel agreed to retreat to a boundary running along the north, south and east of Gaza. The divide was marked by a ...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said Israel is obliged to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip by the United Nations and its entities to ensure the basic needs of the Palestinian civilians are met. also said Israel had not substantiated its allegations that ...
Gaza health crisis will last 'for generations', says WHO chief/ Gaza is experiencing a health "catastrophe" that will last for "generations to come", the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a ...
Arie Zalmanowicz and Tamir Adar's bodies were returned by Hamas on Tuesday night/ Israel's military says the bodies of two hostages returned by Hamas on Tuesday have been identified as Arie Zalmanowicz and Master Sgt (res) Tamir Adar. Zalmanowicz , 85, was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir ...
A small number of British planning officers has been sent to Israel to join a US-led multinational taskforce to help monitor the ceasefire in Gaza, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said. The taskforce, called the civil military coordination centre, is also likely to include troops from ...