In a Twitter post, he said Yameen has overrun the judiciary and legislature, arrested hundreds unlawfully and introduced a new normal in the Maldives... READ MORE›
India has traditionally had a very robust, empathetic relationship with the Indian Ocean island states... READ MORE›
Africa's only female head of state, Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, has resigned and will leave office on Friday, her lawyer says... READ MORE›
The rectangular bottle was discovered half-buried in sand dunes near Wedge Island, some 100 miles 160 kilometers north of Perth, in January... READ MORE›
Before there were computers and GPS beacons to track the ocean's whims, there were slips of paper and bottles... READ MORE›
It just looked like a lovely old bottle, so I picked it up thinking it might look good in my bookcase, Tonya Illman told Australia's ABC... READ MORE›
Tonya Illman picked up the bottle while going for a walk around sand dunes on a remote beach in West Australia... READ MORE›
The biennial, eight-day exercise codenamed 'Milan' is being organized on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean from March 6... READ MORE›
The plane vanished March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board... READ MORE›
A spokesman for the DWS said the ministry would cooperate with the inquiry... READ MORE›
Maldives police arrested at least four opposition members under state of emergency laws for protesting against President Abdulla Yameen's government, the opposition said on Tuesday... READ MORE›
How did the Maldives, an archipelago made up of more than 1,000 coral islands in the Indian Ocean, unravel?... READ MORE›
OSLO - Coral reefs could start to dissolve before 2100 as man-made climate change drives acidification of the oceans, scientists said Thursday... READ MORE›
Global Fishing Watch allows users to access that information to track specific vessels over time... READ MORE›
Twitter Malcolm Turnbull Malcolm Turnbull arrives in Washington at a time of tectonic shift in American thinking on China... READ MORE›
The AIS was turned on only after the Seabed Constructor was apparently on its way to Fremantle in WA... READ MORE›
It shouldn't work like that, and hope that people in the Indian Ocean understand that this is not the way forward, he added... READ MORE›
The Northern Sea Route runs along the Russian Arctic coast from the Kara Sea, along Siberia, to the Bering Sea... READ MORE›
The friendly cooperation between China and the Maldives is for the benefit of all Maldivians... READ MORE›
It suggests that Mr Grudinin is a red capitalist like some other Russian Communist politicians... READ MORE›
Was the only senior opposition figure still at liberty in the Maldives before his arrest on Monday... READ MORE›
French said blacktip sharks, spinner sharks and other coastal sharks have similar bites so species are harder to confirm... READ MORE›
He lost the 2013 election to Yameen, then was convicted under Maldives' anti-terrorism laws in a trial widely criticized by international rights groups... READ MORE›
Yameen's office released a statement saying his government welcomed the Supreme Court's revision ... READ MORE›
Political crisis takes new turn as top court reverses ruling ordering release of President Abdulla Yameen's opponents... READ MORE›
The former president also asked the United States to impose targeted economic sanctions on Yameen and his associates... READ MORE›
The International Maritime Bureau said the Benin navy was searching for the Marine Express, which is carrying 13,500 tonnes of gasoline... READ MORE›
Published February 4, 2018 8 28 am UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asked the Maldivian government to respect the Supreme Court's order, joining a similar appeal by the United States... READ MORE›
Royal Australian Navy officers deployed to the Middle East have seized 414 kilograms of heroin in the Western Indian Ocean... READ MORE›
Delhi aims to counter China's presence in the Indian Ocean with new submarines, but the PLA Navy fleet is larger and more powerful... READ MORE›
Read more Flynn was warned by Trump transition officials about contacts with Russian ambassador The strange Oval Office meeting between Trump, Lavrov and Kislyak... READ MORE›
The government rushed to reassure the public that the Carl Vinson was coming only to deter North Korean provocations... READ MORE›
Yet, as Hambantota shows, China is now establishing its own Hong Kong-style neocolonial arrangements... READ MORE›
Mattis said the U.S. administration was working closely with China to address the issue of North Korea's nuclear program... READ MORE›
Chinese projects all over the world can create debt traps for the countries theyre in and perhaps also trap China on the road to empire... READ MORE›
Pence's new warning to North Korea 'The sword stands ready... READ MORE›
A majority in both the general assembly and security council was required to win a place on the ICJ bench... READ MORE›
In 1965, three years before Mauritius was granted independence, the UK decided to separate the Chagos Islands, an archipelago, from the rest of its Indian Ocean colony... READ MORE›
Kim Ky-baek, who runs the nationalist South Korean website Minjokcorea, expressed fear that the Carl Vinson episode would damage Mr. Trump's credibility among South Koreans... READ MORE›
Flotilla will head to Oman before starting mission in international waters near Yemen, the country's navy says... READ MORE›
That is why the United States and the Soviet Union banned such tests in their first nuclear test-ban treaty, more than a half-century ago... READ MORE›
Kenya has opened a major new railway between the port city of Mombasa and the capital, Nairobi, 18 months early... READ MORE›
With many countries owing China for One Belt, One Road projects, some critics said Sri Lanka was setting a dangerous precedent of signing over territory... READ MORE›
But away from the pageantry of parades and sales pitches, experts suggest India's 250-billion military modernization program is sputtering... READ MORE›
The United Nations World Food Program WFP, which is working in Ethiopia's drought-hit Somali region, has started cutting its food rations to 80 percent... READ MORE›
The warships departed from Zhanjiang in southern China to set up a support base in the Horn of Africa nation, state media reported late on Tuesday... READ MORE›
The warships departed from Zhanjiang in southern China to set up a support base in the Horn of Africa nation, state media reported late on Tuesday... READ MORE›
But the Defence Department has said the fleet is now travelling north and should arrive near the Korean peninsula early next week... READ MORE›
While the operational urgency cannot be undermined, there is a need for the Indian Navy to fight its wars with Indian-made submarines, said K.V... READ MORE›
The US Navy said on 8 April that Carl Vinson strike group was headed towards the Korean peninsula, as a deterrence measure... READ MORE›
Aside from Sri Lanka, Harmonious Mission 2017 will also see the Peace Ark visit other locations around the Indian Ocean... READ MORE›
Welcoming the ruling, Mariyam Shiuna, executive director of anti-corruption group Transparency Maldives, said it still entails a lot of political uncertainty ... READ MORE›
Kew scientists warn that unique plants on Madagascar are at risk of extinction... READ MORE›
White House officials said both men were relying on talking points supplied by the Pentagon... READ MORE›
Indian medical teams and emergency relief arrived in the capital, Colombo, on Saturday to help Sri Lanka deal with the worst flooding in 14 years... READ MORE›
Seoul, the South Korean capital, is within easy range of North Korean long-range artillery... READ MORE›
But for decades it has been the car of choice for taxi drivers more than 5,000 miles 8,000km away on the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar... READ MORE›
It was published online by Geoscience Australia on Wednesday, with a further tranche due to be published next year... READ MORE›
I've benefited from the legendary Newfoundland and Labrador hospitality, and every day I cherish my network of valued friends... READ MORE›
The seabed crawler being built is a few metres in size, far smaller than the commercial-scale machines Nautilus commissioned from UK company SMD... READ MORE›
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