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Marine World
Russia Appears to Arm LNG Tanker in Baltic as Maritime Tensions With NATO Deepen
Russia has apparently equipped one of its most strategically important liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers with heavy machine guns, according…
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Sweden Fits Guns To Coast Guard Vessels As Baltic Tensions Rise
By Charlie Duxbury Jun 27, 2026 (Bloomberg) –Sweden is fitting machine guns to its civilian coast guard vessels to better counter…
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Tanker Struck by Drone off Oman as Tensions Rise with Iran
A laden Panama-flagged tanker outbound from the Gulf was struck early on Saturday, June 27, as Iran continues to say…
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Rising Tensions in Yemen Threaten Red Sea Transits
There have been a number of worrying indicators recently that tensions between the Houthis in the north and the Internationally…
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U.S. and Iran Trade Fire as Strait of Hormuz Tensions Continue
Over the weekend, Iranian and U.S. forces traded fire in a continued low-level contest over the control of the Strait…
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Quad Nations Launch Fiji Port Plan, Critical Minerals Pact Amid China Tensions
NEW DELHI, May 26 (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of Australia, India, Japan and the U.S. agreed to jointly build a port in…
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Tensions Remain High in Hormuz as Trump Says Navy Will “Shoot to Kill”
Both sides continued to trade threats as Iran repeated its assertion that the Strait of Hormuz is closed. Trump, however,…
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Italy Urges NATO to Step In as Greenland Tensions Escalate
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni urged NATO on Friday to develop “a coordinated presence” in the Arctic region to prevent…
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Commercial Ships Anchor Outside Iranian Ports as US Tensions Rise
Dozens of commercial ships have dropped anchor at a distance outside Iran’s port limits in recent days, according to data…
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Nordic Alliance Confronts Trump’s Greenland Ambitions as Arctic Security Tensions Escalate
Five Nordic nations have issued a unified rebuke to renewed American territorial ambitions in the Arctic, asserting that decisions about…
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