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The Latest Breaking News from the Indian Ocean

Why Delhi and Washington need each other

If it wants to counter China in the region, it will need American help. The question is how long it will delay this.

360info

Biden criticised for suggesting bridge ‘across the Indian Ocean’

‘Who’s going to run that train, SpongeBob?’ conservative columnist tweets

The Independent UK

Massive strike pits African fishers against ‘superprofitable’ EU firms

About 2,000 crew members withdrew labour over pay and conditions, as well as citing serious breaches of overfishing rules by Spanish and French companies

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IAF, Army carry out joint exercise in central sector

The exercise follows the IAF’s two strategic missions over the Indian Ocean region that involved Rafale and Su-30MKI jets.

The Hindu

'Maldives of Turkey' has private beaches and overwater cabanas without hefty price tag

Lujo Hotel A’La Carte in Bodrum, Turkey has many of the beautiful features that makes the Maldives in the Indian Ocean such a big draw to holidaymakers around the world

Daily Mirror

‘No survivors’ in capsized Chinese fishing vessel

BEIJING: There were no survivors after a fishing vessel carrying 17 Chinese, 17 Indonesian and five Filipino crew members capsized last week in the Indian Ocean, according to an initial Chinese government investigation report released on Tuesday.

Bangkok Post

No sign of survivors as Chinese fishing boat found

The Indian navy has found no survivors from a Chinese fishing vessel that capsized in the Indian Ocean with 39 crew members onboard.

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Search continues, hopes dim for Chinese boat survivors

The air and sea search for 39 Chinese, Indonesian and Filipino crew members whose fishing boat capsized in the Indian Ocean is entering its fourth day.

AAP

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.

Bangkok Post

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.

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The Independent UK

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

Radio France Internationale

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".

Evening Standard

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.

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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.

Daily Mirror

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

The New Daily

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.

France 24

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…

Wales Online

'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…

Zenger

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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