Marshall Islands

The US military said Tuesday it had intercepted a mock-up of an intercontinental ballistic missile in a first-of-its-kind test that comes amid concerns over North Korea’s weapons program.

Obesity is a worldwide problem, but is especially prevalent in the developed countries with the sedentary lifestyle and the nature of work. The most obese people in the world reside in America. But surprisingly, it’s not the America most might think. In fact the fattest people live in the nation of the American Samoa – an unincorporated territory of the United States in the South Pacific.

The removal of 62 vessels from the Greek ship register within the space of a year highlights the Greek flag's declining competitiveness. Along with the losses observed in 2015, the Greek register appears to have shrunk by 100 oceangoing ships in just two years.

Stunned participants at U.N. climate talks in Marrakesh insisted Nov. 9 that climate change denier Donald Trump cannot derail the global shift to clean energy, although some called his victory in U.S. presidential elections a "disaster." 

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius presented a landmark global climate accord on Dec. 12, a "historic" measure for transforming the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and turn the tide on global warming.

A cruise ship has collided with a tanker off Gallipoli while crossing Turkey's Dardanelles Strait.

"Louis Cristal," a 162-meter-long cruise ship registered in Malta, was travelling from Greece to Istanbul when it collided early June 27 with "STI Pimlico," a 182-meter-long tanker registered in Marshall Islands, which had left Russia for Malta, Do?an News Agency reported.

A Bulgarian sailor, member of the crew of crude oil tanker Nordic Mistral, has been mission since Thursday afternoon.

He went missing at a location situated around 270 kilometers southwest of the Point Penmarc'h in northwestern France, according to "Le Télégramme", as cited by the Bulgarian Focus news agency.

The crude oil tanker sails under the flag of the Marshall Islands.

Iranian Revolutionary Guards fired warning shots May 14 at a Singapore-flagged commercial ship in the Gulf that had collided recently with an Iranian oil rig, US officials said May 14.

Iran has released the Maersk Tigris cargo vessel seized by its patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz last week over a business dispute, official media said May 7.

Members of the crew of the cargo ship Maersk Tigris that had been detained by Iranian authorities, have been released Wednesday. The statement was made by the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham, as quoted by AFP information agency.