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TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan on Tuesday protested China’s boarding of a tourist boat, as tensions rise around the Kinmen archipelago, which lies a short distance off China's coast but is controlled by ...

PORT CLINTON, Ohio—Twenty people were rescued from an ice floe in Lake Erie, the Coast Guard said Monday. ...

ANKARA, Turkey—Authorities in Turkey are investigating eight bodies that washed up in the Mediterranean province of Antalya, including ...

Walmart on Wednesday said it had closed about a dozen stores due to scattered power outages on the ...

MIAMI—A 64-year-old man whose sailboat became disabled spent three days stranded on an island in the Bahamas before ...

ROME—Italian authorities have seized a record 5.3 tonne cocaine haul being transferred between ships off the southern coast ...

SAN DIEGO—Rescues crews have suspended their search for three people who were aboard a Learjet that plunged into ...

Members of the U.S. Coast Guard who sought a religious accommodation request (RAR) from the U.S. Department of ...

NEW ORLEANS—One person died in a helicopter crash in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana's coast, and two ...

DHAKA—A cyclone roared into the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, destroying houses, uprooting trees, ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Rescue helicopters evacuated all 18 crew members from a ship that was left drifting rudderless in ...

The New South Wales (NSW) Government is urging beachgoers to be responsible for their own safety ahead of ...

OTTAWA—The federal government says it is being forced to retire one of the country's most important science vessels, ...

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew braved poor visibility and frigid rapids to reach a car partly submerged ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE—Nineteen Haitians died when a boat transporting them between the southern coastal settlements of Anse-a-Pitre and Marigot sank ...

MEXICO CITY—Tropical Storm Nora is dropping heavy rains along the Gulf of California after weakening from a hurricane ...

VERACRUZ, Mexico—Hurricane Grace closed in on Mexico's Gulf shore as a major Category 3 storm late Friday, drenching ...

SYDNEY—Australian marine rescuers were working on Thursday to free a humpback whale entangled in a shark net off ...

LIMA, Peru—A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook the north Pacific coast of Peru on Friday, sending people fleeing their ...

SAVANNAH, Ga.—Tropical Storm Elsa carved a destructive and soaking path up the East Coast after killing at least ...

MIAMI—Forecasters predict a tropical system will bring heavy rain, storm surge and coastal flooding to the central Gulf ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—The city of Newport Beach has onboarded Paul Blank as its newest harbormaster, just in time ...

Prohibiting any new leasing for the exploration, development, or production of oil or gas along the coast of ...

SAN DIEGO—A man accused of piloting a boat overloaded with illegal immigrants that crashed into rocks off San ...

On a Saturday in the coastal city of Beaufort, South Carolina, (not to be confused with its sister ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday suspended the search in waters off Alaska for an overdue helicopter ...

TEL AVIV—Israel has located the ship responsible for an oil spill that blackened its beaches with tar last ...