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Apapa, Brass, Bonny Island, high-risk waters – Report Published 6 May 2021 The International Maritime Bureau says the Gulf of Guinea remains the world’s piracy hotspot. It said this in its Q1 2021 report. The report also listed Apapa in Lagos, Brass in Bayelsa and Bonny Island in Port-Harcourt as high-risk waterways. The report said, “Nigeria (Lagos-Apapa, Off Bayelsa-Brass, and Bonny Island-Port Harcourt): Pirates/robbers are often well armed and violent. “They have attacked, hijacked, robbed ships and kidnapped crews along far from the coast rivers, anchorages ports, and surrounding...

Unpacking X-Files: Pentagon Watchdog Set to Probe DoD's Handling of UFOs Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202105051082803701-unpacking-x-files-pentagon-watchdog-set-to-probe-dods-handling-of-ufos/ Last year, the Pentagon launched a special task force "to detect, analyse, and catalogue" Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) that "could potentially pose a threat to US national security". The Pentagon's Office of the Inspector General (IG) has launched a formal evaluation into the US Department of Defence (DoD)'s actions related to UFOs, also referred to as Unidentified Aerial Phen...

Gulf of Guinea persists as maritime security hotspot Piracy and armed robbery incidents were on the rise in 2020 and the numbers do not seem to relent into 2021. IMB’s latest global piracy report (Q1 2021) records 38 incidents since the start of 2021 – compared with 47 incidents during the same period last year. In the first three months of 2021, the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) reported 33 vessels boarded, two attempted attacks, two vessels fired upon, and one vessel hijacked. Despite a drop in the number of reported piracy incidents for Q1 2021, violence against crew is on the rise...

April 26, 2021 Kpop band Got7 Mark Tuan. Facebook/Mark Tuan Mark Tuan sometimes forgets he’s not a normal 27-year-old guy living in the US state of California, and is surprised by things like his fans crashing Clubhouse when he signs up. But Tuan is one-seventh of popular K-pop boy band Got7, and he just moved home from Seoul in South Korea to be close to his family while starting a new stage of his career, and to use his platform to influence his fans to change the world in a positive way. “It gets to me all the time,” reflects Tuan over a call about the fervour with which his fans su...

Residents of the state of New York were particularly "lucky" in spotting mysterious objects in the sky. According to the US National UFO Reporting Centre (NUFORC)...