The men were hit in the head by booms on their yachts in separate episodes, as participants faced challenging weather conditions, the police said.

The Iranian-backed militia has launched attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea and against Israel.

Russia has assembled a fleet of hundreds of vessels to covertly ship its oil. With so many ships at sea, the idea of using some to cause havoc may be proving irresistible to the Kremlin.

Brutally persecuted for years by the military in Myanmar, the Rohingya ethnic minority has now become the target of one of the junta’s most formidable rivals in the country’s civil war.

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The country, which has one of Europe’s highest smoking rates, is also resisting a wider push for outdoor bans.