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Two single vehicle accidents on Route 10 Sunday afternoon

Edit CBC 17 Jul 2016
Single vehicle motorcycle accident on Route 10 in Tors Cove ... ....

High Angle Rescue Team locates stranded hikers (CISC - Criminal Intelligence Service Canada)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Jul 2016
A 23-year-old woman from Dieppe, New Brunswick and a 30-year-old man from Halifax had been hiking Cape Split when they became stranded after leaving the main trail to explore Amethyst Cove ......

Grand home is framed by beach and bay on Kingfisher Lane, Longboat Key

Edit Herald Tribune 17 Jul 2016
The canal has direct and easy access to the bay ... Residents have their own private waterfront park ... Longboat Key Estates is a community of just 45 homes, all of them on the water because when the neighborhood was developed in the 1950s, two long, deep canals were cut, leading into the bay near Buttonwood Cove ... He fell in love with the island and returned after the war to live here for good ... We’re like an island within an island.” ... ....

Tiny islands in Kerala 'sinking' due to sea erosion

Edit Deccan Chronicle 17 Jul 2016
Some tiny islands formed by backwaters of scenic Ashtamudi Lake and Kallada River in Kollam Disrict in southern Kerala, among the major tourist attractions, are sinking due to rising sea level and erosion, according to local authorities ... Panchayat officials said the shrinking tiny islands, ranging from one acre to over one hectare, were inhabited by humans ... sinking islands" which are part of the panchayat....

Officials find missing bodies from Lake Lanier accident

Edit Atlanta Journal 17 Jul 2016
The last two of four missing people were found dead in Lake Lanier Sunday morning. The bodies of Arthur Gene McMahan Jr., 46, of Mount Washington, Ky ... An accident Friday afternoon left a 38-foot power boat overturned in the south end of the lake, near Cocktail Cove, sending four people into the water ... VIDEO. Dive teams search Lake Lanier for missing boaters ... ....

CAA snubs suggestion to promote Itu Aba tourism

Edit Taipei Times 17 Jul 2016
Following calls to promote tourism on Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島) in the wake of a controversial arbitration ruling on the South China Sea, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) yesterday said the idea offered little economic benefit ... Even if the runway was extended to allow larger airplanes to land, the island lacks a fuel delivery system to refuel aircraft for their return flights to Taiwan, it added....

Indonesia ‘speaks Chinese’ in South China Sea

Edit The Jakarta Post 17 Jul 2016
This year there have been three spats involving Chinese fishing vessels assisted by China’s coast guard in Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Natuna Islands ... To reassert Indonesia’s sovereignty over the Natuna Islands and the nation’s sovereign maritime rights in the islands’ adjacent waters, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo sailed to the Natuna Islands on June 23....

US Coast Guard calls for search for 15, mostly Cubans

Edit The Miami Herald 17 Jul 2016
Virgin Islands. Survivors who were rescued Monday near the British Virgin Islands told officials that 13 Cubans, a Colombian and a Dominican were missing....

'Award' of South China Sea arbitration a 'huge mistake': US expert

Edit China Daily 17 Jul 2016
Nordquist also questioned the tribunal's conclusion that Taiping Island, among other "features" in the South China Sea, is a "rock" rather than an island. If Taiping Island was recognized as an island, it would be entitled to 200 nautical miles of exclusive economic zone, plus the continental shelf....

Isles have so many problems — and an owner who’s fixing them

Edit New York Post 17 Jul 2016
It has been decades since the Islanders had an owner who wasn’t in it to make a real estate killing or to advance a hidden agenda, or both. But now, with the transition of power from Charles Wang to Jon Ledecky (and Scott Malkin) complete, the business of the Islanders is in trusted hands and the agenda is transparent ... “We’re the New York Islanders.” ... The Islanders didn’t go to Quebec and they didn’t go to Kansas City....

Four farmers arrested for lion's electrocution in Una

Edit The Times of India 17 Jul 2016
Rajkot. Forest officials have arrested four persons in connection with death of an eight-year-old lioness in Bediya village of Una taluka. The carcass of the lioness was found near a lake in Bediya village of Gir-Somnath district on July 7. Initially, it was not clear how the animal died ... They were produced before the court and remanded to one-day custody ... According to Pan dya, Dudhat had cove red his farm with elec trified wires ... RELATED....

Author gives $300,000 to Star Island for building upgrades

Edit The Miami Herald 17 Jul 2016
Officials say New Hampshire's Star Island in the Isles of Shoals is receiving a $300,000 ... The nonprofit Star Island Corporation has owned the 43-acre island since 1915....

Ma’s office shrugs off criticism over ‘advice’

Edit Taipei Times 17 Jul 2016
Former president Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) office yesterday shrugged off criticism directed at Ma over the advice he recently issued on safeguarding the nation’s sovereignty over Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島), saying Ma had already endeavored to implement most of the suggestions while he was in office ... the Spratly Islands (Nansha Islands, 南沙群島)....
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