STOCKHOLM-A passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board returned safely to the Stockholm harbor early Friday after having broken free from heavy pack ice that had trapped it for hours in the Baltic Sea of Sweden’s east coast, officials said. Dozens of other ships and boats had also been stuck as gale-force winds built [...]
The British hostage Peter Moore was dramatically set free yesterday after the United States handed over an Iraqi insurgent suspected of planning the deaths of five American servicemen. Mr Moore, an IT consultant, was freed by the League of the Righteous, or Asaib al-Haq (AAH) – an extremist Shia group allied to Iran – after [...]
Families speak of their relief as five British yachtsmen held for a week by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard are released. Read More British yachtsmen freed by Iran
The Spanish crew of a boat hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean have returned to Madrid, more than six weeks after they were captured. The 16 crew members arrived in Spain on Saturday, where they were greeted by family members, four days after their release. The crew had first travelled to the Seychelles [...]