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The Latest Breaking News from the Indian Ocean

China urges Australia to help find crew of capsized fishing boat

China's ambassador to Australia urged Canberra on Thursday to step up its rescue efforts to help locate the 39 missing crew members on board a Chinese shipping boat that capsized in the Indian Ocean early this week.

Reuters

Chinese envoy asks Australia to increase search for 39 aboard capsized fishing boat in Indian Ocean

A Chinese envoy has asked Australian authorities to increase efforts to find survivors of a capsizing in the Indian Ocean

The Independent UK

39 missing from Chinese ship in Indian Ocean

 BEIJING: A crew of 39 Chinese, Indonesian and Filipino sailors were missing at sea after a Chinese fishing vessel capsized in the Indian Ocean, officials said on Wednesday.

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Chinese fishing vessel capsizes in Indian Ocean, 39 onboard missing

A Chinese fishing vessel capsized in the central part of the Indian Ocean on Tuesday and all 39 people on board are missing, CGTN reported.

Dynamite News

Dozens missing after Chinese fishing boat sinks in Indian Ocean

The incident took place in the early hours of the morning and rescue efforts are under way.

Al Jazeera

Super salty water leaking from the Indian Ocean may have helped end the last ice age

A huge drop in sea levels trapped extremely salty water in the Indian Ocean, which then gushed into the Atlantic when currents changed 15,000 years ago.

LiveScience

Representatives from 25 Indian Ocean nations discuss security, economic growth and cooperation

Representatives from 25 Indian Ocean nations are discussing regional economic growth, cooperation and security at the Indian Ocean Conference in Bangladesh as the Indo-Pacific grows in importance amid changes in the world order

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France sends top ministers to reconnect with people on Reunion Island

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has travelled to Reunion Island to “understand” and address the “daily preoccupations” of residents living in the Indian Ocean overseas department.

Radio France Internationale

France's Mayotte verges on 'insurrection' as court stops slum clearing

A court has halted the clearing of a slum in France's department of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, blocking efforts by the government to improve security. Police have clashed with local youth, leading security forces to describe a "climate of insurrection".

Radio France Internationale

Eleven Indonesian fishermen rescued after six days stranded on desert island in Pacific Ocean

Eleven Indonesian fishermen were rescued by Australian authorities after surviving six days without food or water on a tiny desert island in the Indian Ocean.

Evening Standard

Australia rescues Indonesian fishermen from desert island after cyclone

Australian authorities said on Wednesday they had rescued 11 Indonesian fishermen from a desert island in the Indian Ocean after their vessel shipwrecked during a powerful cyclone, stranding them there for six days without food and water.

Reuters

Cyclone Ilsa: Western Australia braces for most powerful storm in 12 years to batter coast

Cyclone Isla is sweeping across the Indian Ocean with wind speeds of almost 200 mph and is expected to continue its destructive level as it hits Australia's west coast

Daily Mirror

Intensifying storm brings wind and rain to WA

A tropical low over the Indian Ocean is expected to develop into an intense cyclone before it makes landfall in Western Australia.

The New Daily

Pemba people finally given Kenyan citizenship, ending their statelessness

The Pemba live along the Indian Ocean, on the Kenyan coast. They arrived in the 1930s and have since been stateless – living without title deeds, social security, access to studies or fishing permits. But this is changing, as the Kenyan government has now officially recognised this community of several…

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'City killer' asteroid will make rare close pass to Earth today

2023 DZ2 is estimated at between 40 metres and 90 metres in size, and will pass above the Indian Ocean at around 17,500mph

The Conversation

Cyclone Freddy was the most energetic storm on record. Is it a harbinger of things to come?

On February 4, a storm off the north-west coast of Australia was named Cyclone Freddy. It rapidly strengthened and headed west across the Indian Ocean, eventually causing devastation in eastern Africa. Hundreds of people died, tens of thousands more were displaced, national energy grids were crippled, flash flooding was widespread…

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Deadly Cyclone Freddy Likely To Go Down As A Record-setting Storm In Multiple Ways

Long-lasting Tropical Storm Freddy's deadly journey is nearly finished after the storm made its third and final landfall.

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