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The body of an Indian sailor who went missing after his ship was attacked off the coast of Oman has been recovered, a seafarers’ union official said yesterday. Heramb Karmarkar, a 30-year-old marine engineer from the western Indian city of Pune, had been missing since Sunday’s attack on the Cypriot-flagged GFS Galaxy. “I got a call Tuesday evening from the company the ship belonged to informing me that Heramb Karmarkar’s body has been found by the Omani coast guard,” Manoj Yadav, of the Forward Seamen’s Union of India, told AFP. “This was almost 60 hours after we first received news that he was missing.” The other 23 crew members — including 10 Indian nationals — were rescued Sunday. The US Central Command said the ship had been disabled by fire and damage to its engine room, accusing Tehran of attacking it. India is one of the largest contributors of sailors to merchant shipping worldwide, with more than 320,000 active seafarers in 2025, according to officials. The attack came as Tehran announced it was closing the Strait of Hormuz and launched missiles and drones at its Gulf neighbours in retaliation for US strikes. The Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route through which about a fifth of the world’s oil passed before the war broke out on February 28, is a major point of contention between the US and Iran. ...
Ukraine and the European Union (EU) have sealed a “drone deal”, aiming to combine Kyiv’s expertise with EU industrial capacity to establish joint projects and scale up production, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said yesterday. “We need to combine our strengths,” von der Leyen said in a speech in Kyiv at a ceremony to mark Ukraine’s Statehood Day. “This deal will bring together Ukrainian ingenuity and Europe’s industrial scale.” Von der Leyen said the EU could offer advantages to Ukraine such as “huge technological and industrial capacity” and “safe and secure production sites”. Ukraine has signed a series of such drone deals with individual countries. At last week’s Nato summit in Ankara, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed three more, saying that brought the total to nine. But yesterday’s deal is the first intended to cover countries and companies across the EU. It is part of a new EU-Ukraine defence industrial partnership which the Commission, the EU’s executive body, said would expand to include anti-ballistic missiles by 2028. “We will do everything necessary to build Europe’s anti-ballistic system by integrating all European anti-ballistic capabilities,” Zelensky said in his speech to the ceremony. The partnership reflects a growing desire among European politicians and companies to tap into Ukrainian expertise gained from the war that began after Russia’s invasion as they seek to boost their own defences against Moscow. In a statement, the Commission said it would work with 19 founding partners of the drone deal, including EU-based companies such as Indra Group, Fincantieri and Quantum Systems and Ukrainian firms such as LLC Skyfall Industries. Von der Leyen said the new initiative would break down bureaucratic barriers and agree common standards that would make it easier for Ukrainian and EU-based companies to undertake joint ventures. Ukraine has developed a highly sophisticated drone industry after having only limited expertise in the sector when Russia invaded its smaller neighbour in February 2022. (Reuters) ...
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