Indian Ocean

Tsunami Warning Issued After Giant Quake Hits Near Indonesia

AP | FAKHRURRADZIE GADE | Posted 04.13.2012

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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Cries of panic and fervent prayers rang out Wednesday as Indonesians rushed toward high ground after two strong earthqu...

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Costa Cruise Ship On Fire Off Seychelles

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 04.28.2012

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NAIROBI, Kenya — An Italian cruise liner carrying more than 1,000 people was adrift without power in the pirate-infested Indian Ocean on Monday ...

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An Arab Spring Without Support

Mary Keck | Posted 04.18.2012

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If the U.S. is faced with evidence that the president of the Republic of the Maldives was unlawfully removed, we should recognize the human rights of those who live on the islands of the Indian Ocean.

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7 Years After Tsunami Swept Her Away, Girl Finds Her Way Home

AP | By FAKHRURRADZIE GADE | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Family Reunion, Tsunami Survivor, Video, Inspiring, Tsunami, Indonesia, Aceh Province, Yusniar Binti Ibrahim Nur, Wati, Good News, Indian Ocean, Meulaboh, Impact News

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- A girl who was swept away in the Indian Ocean tsunami seven years ago said Friday she broke down in tears this week after tra...

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Scientists Set Out To Explore 'Virtually Unknown Waters' In The Indian Ocean

AP | By DONNA BRYSON | Posted 01.07.2012

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JOHANNESBURG -- The first time scientists explored deep in the Indian Ocean, they found a new species of glowing squid. Now researchers who are depart...

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Suspected Pirate 'Mothership' Hostages Freed

AP | CASSANDRA VINOGRAD | Posted 12.20.2011

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LONDON — British marines detained four suspected pirates and freed 20 crew members who had been held hostage on a pirate "mothership" in the Ind...

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Piracy Costs Global Shipping Trade Billions

AP | By NIRMALA GEORGE | Posted 12.03.2011

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NEW DELHI -- Piracy is costing the global shipping trade more than $9 billion a year, according to Indian ship owners, who on Monday demanded that the...

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Will China Rule the Waves

Eric Margolis | Posted 08.13.2011

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Judging from all the alarms coming from Washington's national security establishment, revelation of China's first aircraft carrier poses a major threat to world peace and stability. It does not, but the timing is noteworthy.

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PHOTOS: 5 Worst Earthquakes And Tsunamis Since 1900

Posted 05.25.2011

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More than 1,000 people are feared dead after magnitude-8.9 offshore earthquake rattled Japan Friday afternoon, spawning a ferocious tsunami that swept...

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A PASSAGE TO INDIA

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Battered at home by last week's Republican landslide, President Barack Obama headed to India to seek solace in foreign policy. The president's s...

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From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards: Marine Research in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (PHOTOS)

Dr. Terry Gosliner | Posted 05.25.2011

Even when local communities make every effort to conserve their reefs, global climate change means more bleaching, more dead reefs, and more ocean acidification.

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Kashmir Could Start a Nuclear War

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

A century ago, the great British geopolitician, Sir Halford Mackinder, called Kashmir one of the world's primary strategic pivots -- the nexus of continents, empires, and civilizations.

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China and India: A War of Giants

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

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In spite of million man armed forces and nuclear weapons, India feels increasingly threatened by China's rise. The Indians know full well that China expects obedience from its neighbors.

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OIWW Madagascar Builds Home for Orphans - with Violins

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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I am pleased to announce the formation of the newest chapter of Orphans International Worldwide: OIWW-Madagascar Orphelinat St-Paul, being built just ...

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Indonesia: Earthquake Hits Along Same Fault Line That Spawned 2004 Tsunami

AP | IRWAN FIRDAUS | Posted 05.25.2011

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A powerful earthquake rocked western Indonesia Wednesday, trapping thousands under collapsed buildings – including two hospitals – and triggering landslides. At least 75 people were killed on Sumatra island and the death toll was expected to climb sharply.

The magnitude 7.6 quake struck at 5:15 p.m. local time (1015GMT, 6:15 a.m. EDT), just off the coast of Padang city the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was along the same fault line that spawned the massive 2004 Asian tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries.

A tsunami warning for countries along the Indian Ocean was issued, and panicked residents fled to higher ground fearing giant waves. The warning was lifted about an hour later.

When the quake struck, the ground was shaking so hard that people sat down on the streets to avoid falling over, footage shot in Padang and broadcast by local TVOne network showed.

Children screamed as residents tried to put out fires started in the quake. Thousands fled the coast in cars and motorbikes, honking horns.

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Climate Change Requires a Real Movement

Mohamed Nasheed | Posted 05.25.2011

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For the Maldives, climate change is no vague or distant irritation but a clear and present danger to our survival.

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Earthquakes In Tokyo, Indian Ocean Shake Asia

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 05.25.2011

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TOKYO — A powerful earthquake hit Tokyo and nearby areas shortly after dawn Tuesday, halting trains and forcing two nuclear reactors to shut dow...

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Need a Dose of Nature? An Exotic Spa? Try Wildfitness in Kenya

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011

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I felt a deep pull to Africa that I've not felt anywhere else in the world. Wildfitness was physically tough -- an exotic luxurious boot camp -- that captured our souls.

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Indian Ocean Unity

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011

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What international association brings together 18 countries, straddling three continents thousands of miles apart, united solely by their sharing of a common body of water?

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YEMEN CRASH SURVIVOR Is A 14-Year-Old Girl, Reports The Guardian

The Guardian | Mark Tran and Lee Glendinning | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rescuers have found a lone survivor from a Yemenia Air plane that crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros islands with more than 150 people on bo...

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Yemen Plane Crash: One Child Rescued In Crash Off Comoros With 153 On Board

AP | TOM MALITI and AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.25.2011

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***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO, SLIDESHOW*** ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS TOM MALITI and AHMED AL-HAJ MORONI, Comoros - A Yemeni jetliner carrying 153 people ...

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Waiting for the Skies to Open Up

Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Indian Ocean, Indian Economy, Monsoon, El Nino, India, Congress Party, Upa, World News

Scorched people sought respite in the seasonal rains that cools down the earth and provides an economic stimulus, without which much of India's growth would remain stunted.

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Piracy, Geopolitics, and Private Security

Abukar Arman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Somalia, Fishing, Piracy, Islamic Law, Somali Pirates, Robert Kaplan, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Aden, Humanitarian Aid, Phil Carter, World News

Piracy is not only disrupting international trade, it is preventing the flow of humanitarian aid to several million Somalis and is perpetuating the very culture that kept Somalia in an abyss of anarchy.

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Terrorists, Pirates and Anarchy, Somalia Style

John Prendergast | Posted 05.25.2011

Somalia has become the poster child for transnational threats emanating from Africa.

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Obama's Crisis Management: Of Pirates and Missiles

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama used the resources of the US military and government to shut down the pirates' options and make them more vulnerable.

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