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BEIJING, Dec 29 (Reuters) – If people want to come and look at China’s first aircraft carrier, they are very welcome, the defence ministry said on

SANTIAGO, Dec 29 (Reuters) – Chilean authorities said on Thursday they are investigating allegations that female sailors were secretly videotaped in

NEW YORK, Dec 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard has called off a search for a woman who went missing from the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship off

MILAN/SEOUL, Dec 27 (Reuters) – Italian shipbuilding and construction group Fincantieri SpA is the only bidder for shipping group STX France, a source

By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Russia expanded its search on Monday for the remains of a military plane that crashed into the Black Sea,

By J.R. Wu TAIPEI, Dec 26 (Reuters) – A group of Chinese warships led by the country’s sole aircraft carrier entered the top half of the South

By Polina Devitt and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Dec 25 (Reuters) – A Russian military plane carrying 92 people, including dozens of Red Army Choir singers,

BEIJING, Dec 25 (Reuters) – China’s first aircraft carrier will carry out drills in the Western Pacific, in what the navy called part of routine

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Dec 23 (Reuters) – Freight rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs), which hit a new nine-month high this week, are on

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Dec 22 (Reuters) – Freight rates for large capesize dry cargo ships on key Asian routes could diverge with rates from Brazil

OTTAWA, Dec 21 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday slammed an agreement made with Canada to ban offshore Arctic drilling, saying Ottawa’s plan

By Jonathan Saul and Andrew MacAskill LONDON, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Royal Bank of Scotland is close to selling at least $600 million worth of shipping loans

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Dec 21 (Reuters) – The shipping industry faces the threat of paying a levy to the European Union on its greenhouse gas emissions

SINGAPORE, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Rickmers Maritime, a Singapore-listed trust that operates container ships, said investors rejected a debt restructuring

By Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday permanently banned new oil and gas

COPENHAGEN, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Moody’s downgraded A.P. Moller-Maersk’s credit rating on Tuesday, piling pressure on the world’s biggest

By Tom Westbrook and Rozanna Latiff SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Investigators searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have recommended

By Ben Blanchard BEIJING, Dec 20 (Reuters) – China has returned a U.S. underwater drone taken by one of its naval vessels in the disputed South China Sea

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 18 (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council lifted North Korean sanctions on five ships after China secured assurances that

Dec 18 (Reuters) – Four people were rescued from frigid waters off Annapolis, Maryland, on Sunday after more than a dozen sailboats capsized during a