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A 90-metre (295-foot) cargo ship ran aground Sunday in a pristine marine reserve in the Strait of Bonaficio off the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, but no oil appears to have been spilled, maritime police said. IMAGES
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
A Hong Kong cruise ship carrying 3,700 people was ordered back to port on Wednesday for virus testing after nine people were found to be close contacts in an Omicron variant outbreak. IMAGES
The Costa Smeralda ship, Costa's flagship vessel, leaves the port of Savona in Italy for the company's first cruise since service was interrupted last December due to Covid. IMAGES
Residents of Manaus, the capital of Brazil's Amazonas state, stand in line to collect or refill oxygen cylinders, as hospitals run out of stock in the virus-stricken city -- which has a Covid-19 death rate of 143 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest in the country -- and total deaths from the virus pass 2 million worldwide. 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