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Time of India
3 days ago
- General
- Time of India
Cargo ship carrying electric vehicles catches fire off Alaska – key points you need to know
Journey from China to Mexico Interrupted by Fire Smoke and Flames from the EV Deck Live Events Fire Suppression System Failed to Contain Flames Authorities Responding, Tugboat En Route FAQs (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel A cargo ship, which started its journey from Yantai, China, on May 26, to ship cars to Lazaro Cardenas, a major Pacific port in Mexico, caught fire in the waters off Alaska's Aleutian island chain on Wednesday, as per a 600-foot (183-meter) Morning Midas , which is a car and truck carrier, was carrying 3,000 vehicles, including 800 electric vehicles , as per 22 crew members on board, abandoned the Morning Midas after it caught fire and were evacuated onto a lifeboat and rescued by the crew of a nearby merchant vessel named the Cosco Hellas in the North Pacific, about 300 miles (490 kilometres) southwest of Adak Island , reported READ: Trump's travel ban: After restricting entry of people from 19 nations, President says this country is next US Coast Guard photos and a Wednesday statement from the ship's management company, Zodiac Maritime , highlighted that a large plume of smoke was initially seen at the ship's stern coming from the deck loaded with electric vehicles on Tuesday, reported the crew had initially started the emergency firefighting procedures with the ship's onboard fire suppression system, they were not able to bring the flames under control, as per the Maritime said, 'The relevant authorities have been notified, and we are working closely with emergency responders with a tug being deployed to support salvage and firefighting operations,' adding, 'Our priorities are to ensure the continued safety of the crew and protect the marine environment,' quoted Coast Guards said that the status of the fire onboard the ship was not known as of Wednesday afternoon, but the smoke was still emanating from the Morning Midas, according to the Admiral Megan Dean, commander of the Coast Guard's Seventeenth District, shared that the search and rescue part of the response had concluded and now the Coast Guard was working with Zodiac Maritime to figure out how to recover the ship and what will be done with it, as per Morning Midas caught fire while transporting 3,000 vehicles, including 800 electric cars, across the Pacific all 22 crew members were safely evacuated and rescued without injuries.
India Today
21-04-2025
- India Today
Lioness kills 14-year-old girl at her home near national park in Kenya
A lioness killed a 14-year-old girl at her house near the Nairobi National Park in the Kenyan capital, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) told animal had entered a residential complex near the national park on April 19 after it jumped over a makeshift fence, KWS Senior Corporate Communications Manager Paul Udoto girl was inside the house with a second teenager when the lioness entered the premises and attacked her. "There is no evidence of provocation from the victims," Udoto told The second teenager raised the alarm, prompting KWS rangers and emergency teams to look for the girl. They found the girl's body with injuries on her lower back in the Mbagathi river after tracing bloodstains leading to the water to KWS, the lioness was believed to be disoriented or diverted from her normal hunting behaviour due to scarcity of prey in her natural range and increasing human activity around the national have set a trap and deployed teams to catch the said security measures were being taken, including electric fencing and AI-powered early warning systems to warn communities of nearby animal movements, CNN is not the first such human-animal attack in April 18, an elephant killed a 54-year-old man while he was grazing livestock at a forest in Nyeri County. The man, who was declared brought dead at a hospital, suffered chest injuries, fractured ribs and internal trauma, KWS said."It was the human activity that encroached upon the animal's range, creating conditions for conflict," Udoto said.
Saudi Gazette
20-02-2025
- Business
- Saudi Gazette
Hegseth orders US military to prepare for major budget cuts
WASHINGTON — US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to prepare plans to make drastic budget cuts over the next five years, with an exception for border security, according to a new memo obtained by memo, dated Tuesday, calls for military leaders to provide a proposal for eight percent in budget cuts each year for the next five years. The proposals for the massive cuts to the Pentagon's budget of approximately $850 billion are due by February 24, less than one week after Hegseth issued the was issued the day before President Donald Trump endorsed the House's budget plan which includes a $100 billion increase in defense spending, suggesting a major disconnect within the administration. Hegseth himself called for an increase to the defense budget one week ago. While visiting Stuttgart, Germany, Hegseth said, 'I think the US needs to spend more than the Biden administration was willing to, who historically underinvested in the capabilities of our military.''I ask that the Military Departments and DoD Components resource the capabilities and readiness necessary for a wartime tempo and offset those requirements with low-impact items, such as wasteful DEI and climate change programs,' Hegseth wrote in the memo. The memo, which was labeled CUI – controlled unclassified information – was sent to senior Pentagon leaders, the commanders of combatant commands and defense memo comes as Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is initiating a major effort to shrink the federal government, cutting spending and laying off a significant number of workers across the Washington Post first reported the memo.'The Department of Defense is conducting this review to ensure we are making the best use of the taxpayers' dollars in a way that delivers on the President Trump's defense priorities efficiently and effectively,' said Pentagon spokesman Robert Hegseth's stated focus to 'revive the warrior ethos,' some defense officials responsible for drafting lists of civilian Pentagon employees to be fired as soon as this week are voicing concerns that the summary firings could break the law and harm US military proposed cuts to the Pentagon's approximately $850 billion budget would amount to tens of billions of dollars in cuts in the first year, the largest reduction in the Defense Department budget since sequestration in proposal is certain to meet with resistance from Congressional Republicans, many of whom have called for increasing the defense budget and derided the Biden administration for only modest hikes in defense spending. Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has called for defense spending to gradually increase to more than $1 trillion per year. The cuts also come at a time when Trump is calling on NATO allies to increase defense spending to five percent of gross domestic product (GDP), which would amount to a massive hike in spending for nearly every single NATO country. (If the US spent five percent of its budget on defense, the military's budget would exceed $1.2 trillion.) — CNN
