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Container Ship of Weapons for Syrian Rebels Splits in Half and Sinks
A large fleet named “Mol Comfort” carrying Arms for FSA from the U.S. has crashed in the Indian Ocean as it made its way from Singapore to Jeddah, on board were 4,500 containers loaded with arms for the Syrian rebels.
MOL Comfort sank due to yet unclear reasons, sailing from Singapore to Jeddah and after that to North Europe, leaving behind hundreds of drifting containers and a huge aftershock...
Damascus bound passenger plane forced to land in Ankara
A Syrian Air Airbus A320
Turkish fighter jets have forced a Syria-bound civilian airplane heading to Damascus from Moscow to land in the Turkish capital Ankara.
The Airbus A320 was intercepted by Turkish F-16 jets late on Wednesday as it entered the country’s airspace.
The plane, reportedly carrying 35 passengers onboard, was then escorted to Ankara’s Esenboga Airport.
Questioned by Turkey’s...
Somali pirates highjack Greek tanker in Arabian sea
The Greek-owned oil tanker MT SMYRNI was seized on May 10, 2012, in the Arabian Sea while carrying 135,000 metric tons of crude.
Somali pirates have hijacked a Greek-owned oil tanker with 17 crew members onboard off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea, Press TV reports.
MT SMYRNI, carrying a cargo of 135,000 metric tons of crude oil, was en route Turkey on Thursday when pirate gangs stormed the vessel,...
Russian spaceship fails to reach orbit
The cargo vehicle was set to blast off to the International Space Station on August 24, 2011.
NASA says the Russian robot spaceship which was carrying supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) has failed to reach its destination.
The Progress 44 cargo spaceship was set to blast off on a Russian-built Soyuz rocket at 9 am of August 24 from the central Asian spaceport of Baikonur Cosmodrome in...