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Crisis-hit Sri Lanka woos foreign oil firms amid fuel shortages

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka invited on Tuesday expressions of interest from oil companies in petroleum-producing nations seeking to import and sell petroleum products as the Indian Ocean island opens its market amid acute fuel shortages.

Reuters

Lawyer criticises prosecution process over 'delay' in case linked to Michaela McAreavey probe

The 27-year-old was strangled in her room at the Legends Hotel on the Indian Ocean island on January 10 2011.

Irish Mirror

China's Xi offers Sri Lanka's new president support amid crisis

Chinese President Xi Jinping offered Sri Lanka's new president his support on Friday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, as the Indian Ocean island grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades.

Reuters

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Songs Of Rare Pygmy Blue Whales Picked Up By Nuclear Bomb Detectors

The distinctive songs of rare pygmy blue whales have been picked up by underwater nuclear bomb detectors.

Zenger

Iran navy announces drone division in Indian Ocean during Biden's Middle East visit

Iran on Friday announced its first drone division in the Indian Ocean, state TV said, as U.S. President Joe Biden visits the Middle East to rally Arab support to counter Iranian threats.

Reuters

Sri Lanka riots: how the tiny Indian Ocean island nation got into such a mess

The chaos in Sri Lanka has deepened after the country’s president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled to the Maldives. The president and his family left Colombo on a military jet just hours before he was due to resign in the face of massive popular protests which culminated on July 9 with crowds…

The Conversation

Tuna catch dries up for Kenya's local fisherfolk

Artisanal fisheries on Kenya’s coast say climate change, overfishing by large foreign vessels and a lack of other job opportunities for coastal communities is draining the Indian Ocean of its yellowfin tuna stocks

The Independent UK

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How marine fisheries can add millions of tonnes to Africa's catch

The African continent produces seven million tonnes of marine fish a year. This capture has increased in recent years thanks to improved catches in west Africa and the end of Somalian piracy in the Indian Ocean.

The Conversation

Mauritius drops all remaining Covid travel rules

Indian Ocean island had previously required testing and quarantine from unvaccinated travellers

The Independent UK

Sri Lanka crisis gives India chance to gain sway vs China

Sri Lanka’s strategic location on Indian Ocean shipping lanes has long attracted outsized interest in the small island nation from regional giants China and India

The Independent UK

Hopes of justice for Michaela McAreavey dashed as case against man on theft charge is thrown out

EXCLUSIVE: Michaela, 27, was strangled in her room at the Legends Hotel on the Indian Ocean island on January 10, 2011.

Irish Mirror

Sri Lanka Stops Fuel Supply to Non-essential Services as Crisis Worsens

Sri Lanka will shut schools and only allow fuel supplies to services deemed essential like health, trains and buses for two weeks starting Tuesday, a minister said, in a desperate attempt to deal with a severe shortage. Sri Lanka is suffering its worst economic crisis, with foreign exchange reserves at…

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To combat coral bleaching, Kenya turns to reef nurseries

The marine area off the coast of Kenya at Wasini Island, jointly managed by a foundation and the island’s community, has been planting over 8,000 corals a year since 2010 and placed about 800 artificial reef structures in the channel in a bid to restore Wasini’s coral gardens

The Independent UK

Four novelists, one ocean: how Indian Ocean literature can remap the world

Novels make worlds. They create an intuitive sense and mental image of a place. And the senses of space produced by fiction shape how readers see the world itself, just like maps do.

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Crisis-hit Sri Lanka gets $55-million credit line from India for fertilisers

Sri Lanka's cabinet has approved a $55-million credit line from India's Exim Bank for the crisis-stricken Indian Ocean nation to buy fertilisers, a cabinet spokesman said on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

South Africa court to rule on Shell offshore oil exploration

A South African court is to rule on efforts to stop British oil giant Shell from conducting any further seismic surveys in the country’s Indian Ocean waters to explore for offshore oil and gas deposits

Tribune News Service

Seychelles says the rich world is failing on climate

Climate-aid pledges by industrialized nations are worthless, says the leader of the Seychelles, an Indian Ocean archipelago threatened by rising sea levels.

The Hindu

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European fishing fleets accused of illegally netting tuna in Indian Ocean

Reports handed to EU claim vessels likely to have entered coastal states’ waters where stocks are dwindling

The Independent UK

Lone survivor of 2009 plane crash testifies in Paris court

The lone survivor of a 2009 plane crash in the Indian Ocean took the stand Monday in a Paris courtroom

The Guardian - UK

Tamil refugees detained by UK on Chagos Islands go on hunger strike

Forty-two hunger strikers are part of group of 89 Sri Lankans whose boat was intercepted in Indian Ocean by UK military

Daily Mirror

MH370's four possible flight paths as expert claims to know location of doomed plane

The mystery surrounding missing Malaysian flight MH370 has plagued theorists since 2014, but experts now claim to know its final location after studying its erratic flight path

The Hindu

India, France carry out second joint patrol in Southern Indian Ocean

Maritime domain awareness and anti-submarine cooperation have emerged as priority areas in the region

Daily Mirror

Missing plane MH370 'was being followed' as expert claims to know location

New investigation by aerospace engineer reveals strange disturbances in flight pattern of the Malaysian 777 that disappeared over the Indian Ocean without trace in 2014

The Conversation

Pink pigeons in Mauritius made a remarkable comeback from near-extinction – but are still losing genetic diversity

Back in the 1980s there were just ten or so pink pigeons left in the wild. Known to scientists as Nesoenas mayeri, the species is found only on Mauritius, the Indian Ocean island that was once home to the dodo. Like the dodo, the pink pigeon made an easy target…

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