Seven stowaways have been detained after the Special Boat Service stormed a Liberian-registered tanker off the Isle of Wight which they are suspected of attempting to hijack.
The special forces responded to a request for help from Hampshire police in the early evening on Sunday, gaining control of the Nave Andromeda vessel in nine minutes after it was feared the crew was no longer fully in charge.
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The 228-metre tanker had been expected to dock in Southampton on Sunday to pick up a cargo of petrol, but its course in the Channel became erratic, prompting calls for an intervention as it passed the south-east edge of the Isle of Wight.
The SBS, based in nearby Poole, Dorset, used two Royal Navy Merlin and two navy Wildcat helicopters to take control of the tanker, which had sailed to the UK from Nigeria. Typically, 16 people fast-roping down from the helicopters would be used to take control of a ship.
My first thought ... will this be made into an action film one day?
He went on to say that they were increasing their capabilities to shut down mosques and ban Muslim organizations, and that they were creating an “Imam Registry.”
Terrorism is already illegal. The only purpose of these new measures is to allow the government to harass Muslims. pic.twitter.com/GFCtQkCwy9
[THEAD] Regime police is marking detainees’ clothes with spray. This determines the level of severity of torture and ill-treatment that person will be subjected to once they arrive in prison. There are 5 colors (each represents a different reason for arrest) pic.twitter.com/Hw54hmOEfI
Residents of an Austrian village will ring in the new year under a new name – Fugging – after ridicule of their signposts, especially on social media, became too much to bear.
They finally grew weary of Fucking, its current name, which some experts say dates back to the 11th century.
Minutes from a municipal council meeting published on Thursday showed that the village of about 100 people, 350km (215 miles) east of Vienna, will be named Fugging from 1 January 2021.
The road to hell is paved with increasing levels of sexual activity.
Or as the first words my father said back in 1999 when I pointed across the yard at my girlfriend and told him she was pregnant -- "This is going to cost you a lot of money..."
In industrialized countries outside the USA this headline might as well be dystopian fiction:
Lauren Bard’s baby was born nearly 3 months premature. She’d been told her health plan would pay for the newborn’s care. Then she opened the hospital bill and her body went numb. In bold block letters it said, “AMOUNT DUE: $898,984.57.”https://t.co/z9M94c5hhn
When the whole family arrived back around 6pm, something was odd. “I think the dog went straight to the Christmas tree and was sniffing around and Mum thought that was a bit weird,” Taylah said. “There was baubles all over the floor … and she looked up and there was a koala in the tree. “It was pretty tangled up in the lights. It was a fake tree and very old but she still tried eating the leaves off it … I saw her munch down on some but she stopped when she realised it was plastic.”