TEHRAN — Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday welcomed the U.S. Navy’s rescue of 13 Iranian fishermen held captive by pirates, just days after it had warned all U.S. ships to leave the region. U.S. officials announced Friday that the fishermen had been rescued by a Navy destroyer the day before, more than 40 days after their boat was commandeered by suspected Somali pirates in the northern Arabian Sea. Read full article > >

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At least 38 migrants from Haiti are found dead after their boat sank just off the eastern tip of Cuba, government officials in Havana say.

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The trapped mammal was found by a tour boat whose staff raised the alarm with local lifeguards.

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The crew of a Taiwanese fishing vessel have overwhelmed a group of armed Somali pirates who hijacked their boat last week.

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Pirates defeated by fishing crew

An Australian inquest into the Christmas Island shipwreck, which killed up to 50 asylum seekers, is told the captain abandoned the boat a day before the tragedy.

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Christmas Island tragedy inquest

Italian coastguards rescue 400 African migrants after their boat hits rocks on the small island of Lampedusa.

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Sea rescue of 400 Libya migrants

Six fishermen are rescued off Shetland after their boat hits rocks near Burra Isle.

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Hopes fade for 22 African migrants missing after their boat took on water off the coast of southern Spain.

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Rescue crews continued their search Thursday for more than 200 people after the boat they were in capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.

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When the tsunami sirens went off and everyone fled for the hills, 64-year-old Susumu Sugawara ran for his boat. He steered the abalone fishing boat Sunflower out to sea, cresting over the tsunami as it headed to shore. “I talked to my boat and said…

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When the tsunami sirens went off and everyone fled for the hills, 64-year-old Susumu Sugawara ran for his boat. He steered the abalone fishing boat Sunflower out to sea, cresting over the tsunami as it headed to shore. “I talked to my boat and said…

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By David Allen As I continue to explore how best to coach executives dealing with the slings and arrows of their outrageous fortunes, my solution du jour is simple: optimize how you deal with surprise. This holds true for C-level folks, their assistants, their companies, their kids, their housekeeper, and anyone else you’d like to throw into the equation.  Not to belittle the recent tragic events in Japan with an obvious metaphor, but you can bet something is coming toward you, still unseen, that will shake whatever structures you have established in your psyche and your world — your priorities, projects, and plans. It will be input that must be incorporated into the totality of your life and work. It will cause you to have to reshuffle many of the meaningful components of your day-to-day experience, as well as triggering realizations of meaningfulness about which you were previously unaware.  You will have to recalibrate your significances and form a new gestalt. You’ll need to get your new act together. Your take on this change can range from exhilaration to devastation. But no matter what emotion you have along that spectrum, there are two major ingredients for an optimal response: (1) actively focused engagement, and (2) having a clear deck.  This is common knowledge and practice for good sailors. When I acquired my first boat, a veteran skipper told me something very useful. He said, “If someone on your boat is about to hurl, give them the helm!” Even better for equilibrium than just a visual focus on the horizon is to actually take command of the vessel. The driver in a car never gets carsick. Surprise will rock the boat, so as soon as you can, grab the wheel. A second factor, however, is equally critical for stability — no residue. If you’ve ever been on a sailboat in an unexpected squall, you’ll know that “ship shape” is not an idle phrase. One loose, unnecessary, or out-of-place piece of gear can ruin your day, if not your boat. Martial artists train to clear their mind. If you are jumped by four people in a dark alley, you don’t want a thousand unprocessed e-mails lurking in your psyche. When I’m not doing anything else, I’m cleaning up my backlog to zero — e-mails, paper, notes, thoughts — all the collected and self-generated inputs that demand attention. There’s a surprise coming toward me, too.  David Allen is the author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity and other books, and Founder/CEO of the David Allen Company.

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Pirates boarded an American yacht off the coast of Oman three days after the boat’s owners split off from the relative safety of a sailing group traversing a dangerous section of the Indian Ocean, according to the group, the Blue Water Rally.

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Four Americans ran into trouble on the Indian Ocean, Somalia’s U.N. Mission says, when their yacht was captured by pirates. Two of the Americans, Jean and Scott Adam, had been sailing around the world for six years on their boat the S/V Quest, and were…

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At least 12 are feared dead, among them foreign tourists, after a tour boat sinks in Vietnam’s Halong Bay.

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