The following video shows the cargo ship NOUR M getting beat to crap against a seawall at the port of Rhodes, an island in the eastern Aegean Sea.
The vessel eventually succumbed to the forces of nature today and sank as the next video shows.
According to Greek media, the NOUR M and her crew had been intercepted and subsequently detained by Greek authorities in November after 20,000 Kalashnikov rifles, as well as a large quantity of ammunition, were found on board.
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Swedish police said on Thursday they had boarded the Yi Peng 3 vessel, which is at the center of an investigation into Baltic Sea cable breaches, at the invitation of the Chinese authorities.
Spilled oil has washed up along “tens of kilometers” of the Russian Black Sea coast after two tankers were badly damaged in a storm at the weekend, a regional official said on Tuesday, and state media said a third ship was now in trouble.
Denmark has rejected a Japanese request to extradite anti-whaling activist Paul Watson over criminal charges dating back more than a decade, a Danish lawyer representing Watson said on Tuesday.
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