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Yahoo
a day ago
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- Yahoo
Dramatic video shows people in water after Indonesian passenger ferry catches fire at sea
The KM Barcelona 5 caught fire around midday Sunday while heading to Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province, on its regular half-day journey from Melonguane port in Talaud Islands district in the same province, according to First Admiral Franky Pasuna Sihombing, chief of the Manado navy base. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
2 days ago
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Indonesia coast guard responds to fatal ship fire, reports say
STORY: :: North Sulawesi Basarnas :: Five people were killed in a blaze aboard a ship off the coast of Indonesia's Sulawesi, local media report :: July 20, 2025 Video showed smoke billowing from the ship and rescuers recovering a body. The cause of the fire remains unknown, local media reported.
Al Jazeera
2 days ago
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- Al Jazeera
Video: Passengers jump from burning ship into the sea in Indonesia
Passengers jump from burning ship into the sea in Indonesia NewsFeed Video shows people jumping into the sea as fire engulfs a passenger ship, the KM Barcelona VA, in Indonesia. The national search and rescue agency has begun evacuating the burning vessel near Talise Island, in North Sulawesi Province. Video Duration 02 minutes 48 seconds 02:48 Video Duration 01 minutes 03 seconds 01:03 Video Duration 01 minutes 46 seconds 01:46 Video Duration 02 minutes 33 seconds 02:33 Video Duration 02 minutes 43 seconds 02:43 Video Duration 01 minutes 10 seconds 01:10 Video Duration 01 minutes 57 seconds 01:57
New York Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
A New ‘Billy Budd' Is a Pressure Cooker of Gay Desire
Billy Budd is a beautiful mystery. He is young, with a smooth and feminine face, but he doesn't know his background; all he can say is that, as a baby, he was found in a silk-lined basket, hanging from the knocker of a door. One thing is certain in Herman Melville's novella 'Billy Budd': This handsome sailor is good, gentle by nature and loyal to his shipmates, who call him Baby and find peace just by being in his presence. To Billy's 'good' Melville adds allegorically pure evil in the ship's master-at-arms, John Claggart, and unbending virtue in Captain Vere. Like the legs of a stool, those characteristics hold up the drama of 'Billy Budd,' which was left unfinished at Melville's death in 1891 and wasn't published until the 1920s. The story of Billy Budd, stammering and precious, then sacrificed to a strict idea of justice after he accidentally but fatally strikes Claggart, has intrigued readers ever since with its opacity and open-endedness. E.M. Forster called the novella 'an easy book, as long as we read it as a yarn.' But tug at the thread, and it unravels into a pile of unanswerable questions: about desire, about morality, about the microcosmic world of a ship at sea. Perhaps that is why adaptations of 'Billy Budd,' onstage and onscreen, have been so different. Each is as much an act of interpretation as translation, adopting a specific perspective, examining Billy's tragedy through a particular character or idea. The latest version, a sexy and ingenious one-act called 'The Story of Billy Budd, Sailor,' ran at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in France earlier this month. It's an adaptation of an adaptation: a chamber treatment, by the director Ted Huffman and the composer Oliver Leith, of Benjamin Britten's 1951 opera 'Billy Budd.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
6 days ago
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Tall ship forced to abort departure from Whitehaven Harbour
A TALL ship was forced to abort its departure from Whitehaven Harbour in the early hours of this morning after getting into difficulty. The Galeon Andalucia has been docked in Whitehaven since last Tuesday evening and has welcomed thousands of people on board. The ship, which is a 17th century Spanish Galleon replica, was scheduled to leave the harbour in the early hours of Wednesday morning, after extending its visit by two days. But the departure was abandoned after the ship experienced some issues with wind gusts. It is understood that some minor damage has been done to a pontoon. The ship is now back on The Sugar Tongue and is expected to leave at 4pm today, if weather conditions are favourable. Its next stop is the Bristol Harbour Festival where it is scheduled to arrive by Thursday. Gerard Richardson, deputy lieutenant, one of the organisers of the visit, said: 'Thankfully from initial reports no one was injured and to be honest after that everything else is detail. 'We don't have knowledge of the full extent of damage caused as yet but It's a reminder of the perils of the sea. Hats off to the ship's crew and the harbour team for managing the situation and getting the ship safely alongside again.' Deanne Shallcross, CEO of Whitehaven Harbour Commissioners, said: 'My understanding is conditions do look favourable at 4pm. But often you're never really certain until a split second before. I'm sure there'll be careful assessments and further discussions ahead of that, though.' The Galeon Andalucia attracted tens of thousands of people to Whitehaven Harbour over the weekend and organisers said the visit had brought 'significant economic benefit' to the town. It was coordinated by deputy lieutenant Gerard Richardson in partnership with Sellafield, Amentum, Whitehaven Town Council, Whitehaven Harbour Commissioners and Marina Projects Whitehaven.
