BERLIN (AFP) - Eight crew members of a Singapore-owned container ship are missing and thought to have been kidnapped after it was stormed by pirates off Benin, the ship's German management firm said on Tuesday (April 21).
Seven seafarers onboard the bulker Top Grace have pleaded guilty to the charges of attempted murder for abandoning two stowaways on a makeshift raft off the coast of South Africa.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said 102 overseas Filipino workers from Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa and California, USA were repatriated and arrived in Manila on Tuesday.
A 42-year-old man who was a crew member of the cruise ship Artania has died in a Perth hospital, becoming the seventh coronavirus death recorded in WA and the youngest person to die of the virus in the country.
