TEHRAN, June 11 -A rescue ship with more than 600 migrants on board was drifting in international waters on Monday as Italy’s new interior minister doubled down on his decision to stop it docking in an Italian port.
TEHRAN, June 05 - The death toll from a volcanic eruption in Guatemala rose to 69 on Monday as family members desperately searched for the missing in makeshift morgues and on streets blanketed with ash.
TEHRAN, May 7 - The Libyan coastguard on Sunday prevented a rescue ship belonging to two NGOs from approaching a boat in distress carrying refugees, an AFP photographer witnessed.
TEHRAN, April 09 - A young humpback whale was stranded on the beach at Mar Del Plata on Saturday and rescue workers labored through the night and into Sunday attempting to return the mammal to the sea.
TEHRAN, March 25 - South Korea's coast guard has said that it's trying to rescue 192 people from a ferry that hit a rock off country's southwest coast.
TEHRAN, March 10 - Libya's coastguard and an international charity ship picked up several hundred migrants on Saturday as smugglers trying to take advantage of calm seas launched a flurry of boats towards Italy.
TEHRAN, February 19 - Rescue teams and locals have conducted a second day of search for an Iranian airliner which went missing in bad weather in snow-capped mountains in southwest Iran Sunday morning.
TEHRAN, January 3 - Spain's maritime rescue service said it has rescue d 55 migrants from a boat in which they were trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
TEHRAN, September 20 - A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocked Mexico, killing at last 149 dead. Rescue operation is underway to help people trapped under debris.
TEHRAN, July 2, YJC - Italy's interior minister called Sunday on other European countries to open their ports to rescue ships ahead of talks with France and Germany on tackling the migrant emergency.
TEHRAN, May 6, YJC - The Italian coastguard says it has rescue d some 6,000 refugees, who were crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, in two days.
Tehran, YJC. The Iranian Red Crescent Society is holding negotiations with foreign companies to buy 28 new helicopters for the country’s air ambulance fleet.
Iranian naval forces have rescue d an Iranian oil tanker from an attack by a group of pirates approximately 20 nautical miles off Oman’s Masirah Island.