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This summer, as China was protesting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, a much different geopolitical standoff was taking shape in another corner of the Pacific

A young child is among five dead after a speed boat carrying Cubans collided with a Cuba Coast Guard vessel, Cuban authorities said. The Cubans were trying to make it to the United States when the Cuban Coast Guard vessel tried to stop it and it turned over.

MIAMI — It took 51 years of pleading — “We need a navigational aid” — to get a lighthouse built on Sanibel.

The U.S. Coast Guard, a crew of scientists and others launched an air and sea mission to rescue 13 people, including a child, from a fishing vessel just moments before it sank in darkness in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia

“Serious concerns” over critically low water levels in the Mississippi River system led port authorities to limit vessel drafts near a key export hub, potentially adding a further headache for shippers already contending with delays and skyrocketing costs.

German entrepreneur Rainer Schaller, known for his line of fitness studios, was among the passengers on a plane believed to have crashed in Costa Rica, authorities from the Central American country said on Saturday.

South Korea’s former defense minister and coast guard chief have been arrested over their alleged involvement in covering up facts and distorting the circumstances surrounding North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official in 2020 near the rivals’ tense sea border

MIAMI — The mass exodus from Cuba took an unusual twist Friday, when a pilot in a Soviet-era biplane took off from the island just 90 miles south of Key West and landed on an isolated, mostly forgotten airstrip in the middle of the Everglades.

MIAMI — The mass exodus from Cuba took an unusual twist Friday, when someone in a old Soviet-era cropduster took off from the island just 90 miles north of Key West and landed somewhere west of Krome Avenue in the Everglades.

Desperate to leave Cuba and start over in the United States, people are making the perilous journey in greater numbers across the Florida Straits. South Florida authorities say the steady stream of arrivals has put stress on local law enforcement and rescuers, who are often dispatched when migrant boaters are…

The father-son never imagined their boating, survival and swimming skills would all be put to the test.