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Ormoc looks to boost tourism following discovery of WWII shipwrecks in bay

Jenette Ruedas, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 25 09:05 PM

The city government of Ormoc is looking to boost local tourism and better educate students on local history following the recent discovery of wreckage of Japanese and American warships from World War 2 in the Ormoc Bay.  Read more »

5 Japanese warship, nadiskubre sa ilalim ng Surigao Strait

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 09 03:08 AM

Nadiskubre sa ilalim ng karagatang sakop ng Surigao Strait ang limang barkong pandigma ng Japan. Read more »

US warship found 650 feet deep in Ormoc Bay

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 06 11:45 PM

The team of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has found the wreckage of the first American warship that fired against a Japanese vessel during World War II. Read more »

UN says 239 migrants die in two shipwrecks off Libya

Tom Miles, Reuters
Posted at Nov 03 11:27 PM

GENEVA - At least 239 migrants, believed to be from West Africa, have died in two shipwrecks off Libya, a spokesman for the United Nations migration agency, said on Thursday. Read more »

Colombia finds treasure galleon, ending 300-year mystery

Paula Carillo, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Dec 07 04:48 AM

Colombia says it has found the shipwreck of a storied Spanish galleon laden with gold and precious stones, three centuries after it was sunk by the British in the Caribbean. Read more »

Putin dives in mini-sub to shipwreck off Crimea

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Aug 19 08:19 PM

Russian President Vladimir Putin burnished his action man image on Tuesday by diving down in a mini-submarine to explore a shipwreck off the coast of the Crimea peninsula that Moscow seized from Ukraine last year. Read more »

Migrant shipwreck survivors grieve children swept from their arms

By Laure Brumont, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Aug 08 08:42 PM

PALERMO, Italy - Their children slipped out of their grasp as the boat overturned and were lost to the waves. Now, traumatised parents brought to safety after a deadly Mediterranean shipwreck are being given psychological support in Sicily. Read more »

Under-pressure EU mulls emergency summit after worst migrant tragedy

Agence France Presse
Updated as of Apr 20 03:27 PM

EU president Donald Tusk was considering Sunday an emergency summit on illegal immigration, as European leaders called for action after more than 700 were feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean's deadliest migrant disaster yet. Read more »

Pope urges world action to stop more migrant disasters

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 20 04:41 AM

Pope Francis has called for the international community to take swift and decisive action after a fishing boat packed with migrants capsized off the Libyan coast overnight, in what officials say may be one of the worst disasters of the Mediterranean migrant crisis. As many as 700 people are feared dead. Read more »