A Chinese fishing boat sank in west waters off South Korea on Tuesday afternoon, with seven people rescued but one still missing, South Korea's coast guard said.
Almost 3,000 migrants and refugees rescued in the Mediterranean Sea reached various ports in southern Italy on Monday,the authorities said.
Up to 30 migrants are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast while some 77 were rescued by EU naval units from the sea.
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Twelve people have been rescued from a Dutch cargo ship after it collided with a gas tanker and sank off the Belgian coast, local media reported from the scene on Tuesday.
Ten people were found dead while eight others were still missing, after a South Korean fishing boat capsized off the country's southern coast on Sunday, police said.
Vietnamese and Indian Coast Guards held their first search and rescue drill off the coast of southern Ba Ria - Vung Tau province, Vietnam News Agency reported Monday.
Some 50 migrants have been found dead in the hold of a craft off the Libyan coast, the Italian coast guard said Wednesday.
At least 25 migrants died when their boat capsized off the Libyan coast on Wednesday with hundreds of people onboard, and some 400 have been rescued so far, Italian reports said.
Coast Guard in South Korea said Tuesday that it will make all-out efforts to the last minute to search the missing in the sunken ferry, even after President Park Geun-hye vowed to disband the maritime police over its failure to save passengers.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Monday that the country's coast guard will be disbanded on its failure to appropriately respond to the ferry sinking disaster.
The number of missing people in the South Korean ferry sinking disaster was revised up as two Chinese nationals aboard the ill-fated vessel were found later, head of the South Korean coast guard said Thursday.
The Japanese Coast Guard announced that its teams rescued an Indonesian sailor and found the bodies of three sailors on Monday, one day after they went missing with three other crew members, following a fire on board a tuna fishing boat in waters far off the western Japanese island of Shikoku.
Two trawlers capsized after collision with a cargo ship which also hit their fishing nets off the western Japanese prefecture of Wakayama on Friday morning
The UN Security Council on Monday extended for another year the mandate for states and regional organizations to fight Somali pirates and stressed the need for a comprehensive approach by the international community to tackle the root causes of the scourge.
At least 100 people are feared dead after a storm hit the coastal areas of Somalia's northeastern autonomous state of Puntland over the weekend, local authorities said on Monday.
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