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Added on the 12/03/2021 20:26:41 - Copyright : AFP EN
Images from the Greek coast guard show rescuers responding to a fire that broke out on an Italian-flagged cruise ship sailing through the Mediterranean's Ionian Sea with 237 passengers and 51 crew on board IMAGES
Images show the Panama-registered carrier ship Fremantle Highway, which is carrying 3,000 cars and caught fire off the Dutch coast on Tuesday night as it travelled to Egypt from Germany. The ship, still on fire at 17:00 CET, is filmed from Buren Strand, Ameland Island – a popular holiday destination in the Waddenzee Netherlands, which is also a UNESCO World Heritage site. Fears have been raised over environmental pollution as authorities warn that the fire could burn for days and threaten nearby natural sites. It is suspected that an electric car was behind the fire. IMAGES
Footage of the Navigator of the Seas, a cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International and docked in the Port of Miami, as a group of crew members aboard has gone on hunger strike. The group is demanding that the company send them home after waiting for more than two months to be repatriated. They have been stranded at sea since the industry halted operations amid the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGES
Firefighters are seen at the site of a fire that broke out at the Qaysari bazaar in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region. IMAGES
Smoke billows as firefighters rush to the scene after fire erupted at a second-hand clothes market in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region. IMAGES
Images taken during a guided tour organised by the Israeli Navy show Israeli sailors aboard a Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boat preparing to depart to patrol off the coast of Gaza from a naval base in the northern port city of Haifa. IMAGES