By Joan Faus and Horaci Garcia LA MASSANA, Andorra (Reuters) -The daughter of French oceanographer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, one of five people inside a submersible missing near the Titanic wreck, said on Thursday she held hope they will be rescued but she is comforted by the knowledge that he is in the place he loved most….
(Reuters) – A debris field that was found near the wreckage of the Titanic in the North Atlantic has been assessed to be from the missing Titan submersible’s external body, CNN reported on Thursday, citing sources. (Reporting by Rami Ayyub in Washington; Editing by Eric Beech)
(Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday said a debris field was discovered within the search area by a remotely operated vehicle near the Titanic. Experts within the unified command were evaluating the information, the Coast Guard said. (Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
By Borja Suarez ARGUINEGUIN, Spain (Reuters) – A total of 227 migrants were rescued on Thursday near Spain’s Canary Islands, emergency services said, one day after migrant charities said they feared more than 30 migrants had died after their inflatable dinghy sank on the same route. The Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa…
PARIS (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund has reached its target of making $100 billion in special drawing rights available for vulnerable countries, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told a summit held in Paris on Thursday. Rich countries agreed in 2021 to rechannel some of their unused IMF special drawing rights, an international reserve currency, to…
(Reuters) -A tornado ripped through the northern Texas town of Matador on Wednesday, killing four people and injuring several others while damaging at least a dozen buildings, officials said. Touching down at 8 p.m. local time (0100 GMT), the “unprecedented tornado” brought high gusting and battering winds to the small community of about 600 residents,…
By Daniel Trotta, Brad Brooks (Reuters) -Experts raised safety concerns in 2018 about the submersible vessel that has been missing since Sunday, when it descended with tourists on a deep ocean journey to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The pilot and four passengers are aboard and the available oxygen on the vehicle has been…
PARIS (Reuters) – Following are highlights of what world leaders said at a summit in Paris on Thursday to boost crisis financing for poor countries, reform post-war financial systems and free up funds to tackle climate change. ON REFORM “Even with the capital that the World Bank and the MDBs (multinational development banks) have, there…
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Russian chapter of the global environmental campaign group WWF on Thursday said it had cut ties with WWF International after Russia designated WWF as an “undesirable organisation”. The label is equivalent to a ban on the group’s activities in Russia. On Wednesday, the prosecutor-general had accused WWF-Russia of presenting “security threats in…
By Louise Dalmasso PARIS (Reuters) -A French robot that can dive to 20,000 feet (6,000 metres) underwater is on its way to help find a tourist submersible that vanished as it descended to the Titanic wreck and it could help free the sub if it is trapped, its operator said on Wednesday. The unmanned robot,…
