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The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (), is an island country located in the northern Pacific Ocean.
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HONOLULU -- The Coast Guard says 20 sailors were rescued Friday near the Pacific's Marshall Islands after their boat sank in rough seas.
The Jeljelet Ae was hauling construction materials from the Marshall port of Majuro to an island 200 miles away Thursday when the crew was forced to abandon ship and board life rafts.The Coast Guard says its Hawaii headquarters received a distress signal and quickly alerted other members of multinational group that monitors problems in the vast reaches of the Pacific.The two life rafts carrying the crew were spotted by a search plane, which relayed the location to search vessels. The Guard says a fishing boat reached the rafts at 6 p.m. Friday and rescued all 20 crew members.The Guard said in a statement that the condition of the sailors wasn't immediately known....Russian officials admitted Thursday that US radar was not behind the failure of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, which plummeted to Earth last month following a malfunct...
SYDNEY -- Award-winning American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight have died in a helicopter crash in eastern Austra...
Mike deGruy, an award-winning cinematographer who spent three decades making documentary films about the ocean, was killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somali pirates on Thursday freed an Algerian-owned ship with 25 crew members onboard after 10 months of captivity, the same day pirates hijacked a ...
One was Napoleon's last place of exile. Another became home to survivors of the mutiny-stricken HMS Bounty. They are St. Helena and the Pitcairn Islands, flecks of r...
Launch controllers destroyed an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean early Wednesday when a problem was detected minutes aft...
An unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile blasted off early Wednesday on a test flight from California to a target in the Pacific Ocean, but a commun...
Pirates off Nigeria's coast seized a chemical tanker and kidnapped the vessel's crew, a watchdog group said Tuesday, the latest attack to target shipping in West Afr...
The number of adults suffering from Type 2 diabetes has more than doubled across the globe in the past 30 years, according to a study published in The Lancet.The res...
Divided authority may have made it more difficult for the U.S. government to regulate offshore oil operations
The U.S. military successfully conducted its most challenging test yet of its ballistic missile defense system, blasting an incoming target out of the skies over the...
The Air Force has test-launched a Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile from California.The ICBM lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 3:40 a.m. Wedn...
Ten members of a Taiwanese fishing ship were rescued in the Pacific after being forced to abandon the burning vessel before it sank, authorities said Sunday.The crew...
The owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year said Wednesday that an investigative report issued by the vessel's flag state further confirms tha...
Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two. "It's gett...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The EU's anti-piracy task force says Somali pirates have hijacked a chemical tanker carrying lubricating oil in the Red Sea .The force says pir...
Debris field creeping across Pacific
Scientists study the effects
The legacy of Cold War-era nuclear testing in the Pacific has left behind a health care problem that is costing U.S. states and territories far more money than the f...
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