Greenpeace unveiled a new weapon in its campaign against environmental destruction on Monday -- a 23 million euro ($33.4 million) ship dubbed the Rainbow Warrior III.
The captain of a US vessel intercepted after it tried to defy a ban and sail for Gaza from Greece was being held in "shocking conditions" Sunday and has not received consular assistance, a lawyer said.
BERLIN — US planes and a destroyer attacked Libyan ships after reports they were "firing indiscriminately at merchant vessels" in the northwestern port of Misrata, US Africa Command said Tuesday.
CAPE TOWN – A race to rescue up to 20,000 endangered penguins from an oil spill in an isolated south Atlantic British island group was underway Thursday after a cargo ship ran aground.
VIENNA (Reuters) - Japan told the U.N. atomic watchdog there was an initial increase in radioactivity around a quake-hit nuclear plant on Saturday but levels "have been observed to lessen in recent hours," the Vienna-based agency said.
