WASHINGTON: US military forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean Sea, as part of Washington’s efforts to enforce an oil quarantine targeting Venezuela, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday. Read More: Trump announces India will buy Venezuelan oil, not Iranian crude The tanker, Aquila II, was […]
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Pakistan Navy assumes command of CTF-150 in Bahrain
KARACHI: Pakistan Navy has taken over command of Combined Task Force-150 (CTF-150) during a ceremony held at the Headquarters of Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) in Bahrain. Read More: Pakistan Navy takes command of CTF-150 for 14th time Commodore Muhammad Yasir Tahir assumed command from Commodore Fahad S. Al Joaid of the Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF). […]
Pakistan Navy takes command of CTF-150 for 14th time
Pakistan Navy assumed command of the Combined Task Force-150 (CTF-150) for the 14th time on Thursday in Bahrain. Commodore Muhammad Yasir Tahir took over from Commodore Fahad S. Al Joaid of the Royal Saudi Naval Forces. The task force operates under the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF). Commodore Tahir said his team is ready to uphold […]
EU naval force secures ship attacked off Somalia coast
Nairobi, Kenya: The European Union’s anti-piracy naval force successfully secured a merchant vessel attacked off the coast of Somalia on Thursday. The ship, Hellas Aphrodite, operated by Greek firm Latsco Marine Management, was en route from India to South Africa with 24 crew members aboard when armed assailants attempted to seize it. According to the […]
Patrick Herminie Wins Seychelles Presidency, Ending Ramkalawan Era
VICTORIA – Former parliament speaker Patrick Herminie has won Seychelles’ presidential election, defeating incumbent Wavel Ramkalawan with 52.7% of the vote, official results showed on Sunday. The victory restores full control to the United Seychelles party, which also regained its parliamentary majority in last month’s elections. Seychelles, an Indian Ocean island nation and Africa’s richest […]
Pakistan says Asia-Pacific, Indian Ocean should become a ‘zone of peace’
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said that Asia-Pacific, including the Indian Ocean, should become a Zone of Peace, an area of expanding cooperation and prosperity through strict adherence to the principles of the UN Charter and the Bandung Principles of peaceful coexistence. In his virtual address at Nikkei’s 26th conference on ‘Future of […]
China’s rocket segment disintegrates over Indian Ocean
BEIJING: A large segment of a Chinese rocket re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean on Sunday, the Chinese space agency said, following fevered speculation over where the 18-tonne object would come down. In Beijing, officials had said there was little risk from the freefalling segment of the Long March-5B rocket, which […]