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Malaysia has agreed to terms with exploration firm Ocean Infinity to restart the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 wreckage, its transport minister said on Wednesday.
The agreement will initiate seabed search operations in a new area of about 15,000 square kilometers in the southern Indian Ocean, following a "no find, no fee" principle. Under the deal, Ocean Infinity will receive $70 million if the wreckage is successfully located.
“The government is committed to continuing the search operation and providing closure for the families of the MH370 passengers,” said Minister Loke Siew Fook in a statement.
The deal follows an earlier in-principle agreement reached in December with Ocean Infinity, the firm that conducted the previous search efforts that ended in 2018 after two unsuccessful attempts. That search was conducted in a 120,000 square kilometer area based on Inmarsat satellite data, involving Malaysia, Australia, and China.
A ship was deployed to the Indian Ocean search zone late last month, even before the finalization of the deal. Although the duration of the new contract has not been confirmed, Loke previously indicated it would cover an 18‑month period.
The renewed effort marks a significant step in the long-standing quest to solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries—the disappearance of MH370 in 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A tsunami threat was issued in Chile after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Friday. The epicenter was located 135 miles south of Puerto Williams on the north coast of Navarino Island.
The war in Ukraine has reached a strategic impasse, and it seems that the conflict will not be solved by military means. This creates a path toward one of two alternatives: either a “frozen” phase that can last indefinitely or a quest for a durable political regulation.
Hungary would suffer if it was cut off from Russian energy, Budapest's foreign minister said during a visit to Moscow on Wednesday, reiterating that the country would not accept outside pressure when it came to decisions on its energy supplies.
Toxic gas and a locked door that barred access to a roof were responsible for most of the deaths in a devastating fire in a Bangladesh garment factory and an adjoining chemical warehouse, a fire official said on Wednesday.
A U.S. strike on a boat off the coast of Venezuela on Tuesday killed six suspected drug traffickers, President Donald Trump said, the latest such operation in recent weeks as the U.S. builds up military forces in the region.
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A fire on Tuesday at a garment factory in Bangladesh and an adjacent chemical warehouse killed at least 16 people and injured others, and the death toll could rise, an official said.
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