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U.S. to Resume Maritime Blockade of Iran on Tuesday as Hormuz Tensions Escalate
The United States will resume enforcing its maritime blockade of Iran on Monday, restoring restrictions on commercial shipping to and…
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Hormuz Traffic Falls to Five-Week Low as Tensions Escalate
The number of vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz fell to multi-week lows on Sunday, shipping data showed, as renewed…
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More LNG, Japan-Linked Vessels Transit Hormuz Despite Renewed Mideast Tensions
More liquefied natural gas tankers have resumed transiting the Strait of Hormuz in recent days, ship-tracking data showed, and 22…
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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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