"Indian Ocean"

Senior Sri Lankan lawmaker Dinesh Gunawardena was sworn in on Friday as the new prime minister, a day after the swearing-in of a new president as the Indian Ocean nation grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades.

Thailand’s tsunami detection buoys in the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Sea that have lost connection with the satellite will be replaced in November, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department (DDPM) said.

The Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Museum in Phang-nga’s Takua Pa district, which was constructed to commemorate the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on December 26, 2014, will be opened on Friday, the Culture Ministry said on Thursday.

NAIROBI - On Thursday, 12 days after a large cargo ship got stuck on a reef off the coast of Mauritius, an island nation in the southern Indian Ocean, its hull was punctured and hundreds of tons of its fuel began spilling into a pristine lagoon.

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Perth - An Australian swimming club is appealing for ocean watchers to find their giant yellow inflatable duck Daphne, after the mascot was blown into the Indian Ocean with reported sightings hundreds of kilometres from where it was launched.

The National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC) has sent a transport boat to pick up the existing Tsunami detectors and to deliver a new set to the middle of the Indian Ocean.

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