Israel's president called the presence of Iranian warships in the Suez Canal a "provocation" and not a serious "threat," but he warned an audience of Europeans that they face an "existential" danger from the regime's nuclear program.
Smoke billowed into the sky over Egypt's capital Wednesday from a fire at the Interior Ministry compound, a blaze witnesses say was set by protesters upset about labor issues.
Just how did youth and technology help fuel Egypt's revolution? CNN's Fareed Zakaria reports.
Two Iranian warships will cross the Suez Canal on Tuesday, four days after Egypt's post-Hosni Mubarak government gave the green light to the passage, Egyptian state-run news website EgyNews reported Monday.
The Israeli prime minister on Sunday accused Iran of trying to expand its influence in the region by planning to send naval ships through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean.
Egypt has agreed to allow two Iranian warships to cross through the Suez Canal in a move that puts the country's new military regime in a prickly position with its Israeli neighbor.
Thirty-two years later, Iran is still fighting for its independence. Can Egypt do better? CNN's Sandra Endo reports.
Iran has not requested to move any of its warships through the Suez Canal, an Egyptian official said Thursday.
Two Iranian warships are expected to pass through the Suez Canal Wednesday night on their way to Syria, a move that Israel considers a "provocation" and that sent oil prices soaring.
Oil prices spiked Wednesday following reports that Iran was moving warships through the Suez Canal on their way to Syria.
The Egyptian crisis has sent oil prices to a 2-year high above $92 a barrel, up 5.5% in two trading sessions, due to concern the turmoil could spread to Middle East nations that are bigger crude producers.
Was Egypt only a one-day story for Wall Street? Stocks took a somewhat nasty tumble Friday as protests in Cairo spooked traders. Investors worried that more turmoil in the Arab world could create major supply disruptions for oil.
Panama and the United Arab Emirates are crucial trade hubs thanks to two of the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century -- Dubai's Jebel Ali port and the Panama Canal.
Somalia-based pirates on Tuesday released a Turkish-flagged ship carrying 4,500 tons of chemicals that was seized two months ago off Yemen's coast, the International Maritime Bureau told CNN.
Pirates have released a French merchant ship and its nine crew members seized off the Nigerian coast over the weekend, the ship's owners said Wednesday.
China is sending three warships to combat piracy in the waters off the Somali coast. CNN's Emily Chang reports.
Two Chinese destroyers and a supply ship set sail Friday for the Gulf of Aden on a mission to protect Chinese merchant ships from an increasing number of pirate attacks occurring in the waters off Somalia, state media reported.
More than 260 people will spend Christmas Day held hostage at sea by armed pirates.
It may have looked like just another sluggish freighter, but the Faina's cargo of tanks put the buccaneers in the eye of an international storm
The U.S. Navy on Wednesday admitted an Egyptian was killed this week when shots were fired from a military-contracted cargo ship at a boat near the Suez Canal.
The United States is working with the Egyptian government to figure out the details of a shooting incident in the Suez Canal involving a cargo vessel contracted by the U.S. military.
An American cargo ship under contract to the U.S. Navy opened fire on a small Egyptian boat while moving through the Suez Canal, the U.S. military said Tuesday
NATO ships rescued two survivors and spotted three bodies off the coast of a small Red Sea island Monday morning, following a spectacular volcanic eruption the night before, a NATO commander said.
CNN's Max Foster speaks with Canadian Navy spokesman Ken Allan about what was spotted from the eruption.
The Cutty Sark, one of London's best-loved landmarks, is 137 years old, and the only surviving tea clipper in the world.
Intelligence shows al Qaeda has plans to blow up shipping in a bid to disrupt world trade, Britain's top Naval officer has said in an interview.
In Virginia Beach, Virginia, this week, a fishing trawler pulls into port. Not necessarily noteworthy, until you consider the mission the Indies Trader has been on.
Approach the Carsten Maersk from dockside in the Long Beach, Calif., harbor and it's hard to grasp that you are walking up to an oceangoing container ship, not a high blue metal wall. If you're any...
Where is he now? I don't mean Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. He's dead--and likely worse. If Franklin Roosevelt (his nemesis) had any pull with God, McCormick is currently r...
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