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IOM urges stronger action against smuggling networks, reinforced search and rescue efforts in 'deadliest migration corridor ...

Indian Coast Guard Day on 1 February honors the Indian Coast Guard’s role in maritime security, rescue operations, and protection of India’s coastline and EEZ.

At the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain in the Revolutionary War, a gunboat called the Philadelphia for the ...

Fred Bates couldn’t get to his favorite spot on the beach in Sea Girt on a unseasonably balmy September day last year because, well, a 30-foot boat had crashed there the prior morning. “Hello! Is ...

Thanks to the oral surgeon who extracted four wisdom teeth from my college student's mouth and the ...

The calm waters nearSardinia’s northeastern coast concealed an extraordinary archaeological cache until a diver’s chance ...

Michigan child welfare workers were raising red flags about drug tests years before they learned the lab behind them had been ...

The KUOW Book Club is partnering once again with The Seattle Public Library to present a series of live author talks at the ...

Forget the summer rush; March presents an ideal window for sun-seekers to escape the lingering chill at home. This ...

Spring is just around the corner and it’s another busy week for Stroud’s community event organisers, with a beer festival at ...

In any case, an even more inspirational figure than George Hedger leads this ambitious story. That is Ann’s great-great-grandmother Caroline Hedger who is called Carrie in her page-turner novel, The ...