The collision took place about 13 miles (20km) off the East Yorkshire coast, near Hull and Grimsby, in a busy shipping area.

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The Russian captain of the Solong cargo ship that crashed into a US-flagged tanker earlier this week in the North Sea appeared in an English court on Saturday on charges of gross negligence ...

The owners of a container ship which crashed into another vessel in the North Sea on Monday have denied reports it had hazardous sodium cyanide on board. US tanker Stena Immaculate was anchored ...

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A massive fire erupted in the North Sea after a container ship smashed into a US tanker with many questions remaining about the cause of the collision. The Portuguese-flagged Solong cargo vessel ...

London — The Monday collision between a cargo ship and an oil tanker in the North Sea "has a high risk of being an environmental disaster in really important protected areas," Naomi Tilley ...

The Russian captain of the Solong container ship involved in the North Sea crash has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter. Vladimir Motin, 59, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, has been ...

A fire on an oil tanker involved in a collision in the North Sea has been extinguished. US-registered tanker Stena Immaculate and Portuguese-flagged cargo ship Solong collided off the East ...

The Solong cargo ship after it collided with an oil tanker in the North Sea The captain of a cargo ship that collided with an oil tanker in the North Sea has been charged with gross negligence ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that South Africa’s ambassador to the United States “is no longer welcome” in the country, in the latest Trump administration move targeting the African ...