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Risky salvage of Sounion tanker to restart in Red Sea this week, sources say

Ekathimerini 12 Sep 2024
The Houthis – who say they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians caught up in the Israel-Gaza war – also detonated charges on the tanker after the attack, causing more fires, and it is unclear if any explosives are still active.
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Risky Salvage of Houthi-hit Tanker Sounion to Restart This Week

MarineLink 12 Sep 2024
The Houthis - who say they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians caught up in the Israel-Gaza war - also detonated charges on the tanker after the attack, causing more fires, and it is unclear if any explosives are still active.
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UK cracks down on illicit Russian fleet transporting oil globally

Kuna 11 Sep 2024
In a statement, FCDO explained that the tankers targeted today are of huge capacity and have transported USD five billion worth of Russian oil since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in 2022.
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UK imposes sanctions on 10 ships in crackdown on Russia’s shadow oil fleet

The Guardian 11 Sep 2024
Tankers believed to be at heart of illicit operation transporting gas and oil to fund Moscow’s war effort The UK has taken ...
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History offers lessons in Gulf showdown between US and Iran

The National 11 Sep 2024
The last time US and Iranian troops fought each other near the Strait of Hormuz, it was during the so-called Tanker War in the 1980s and the result was a lop-sided victory for the Americans ... war.
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Danish Court Hits Greenpeace with Unprecedented Fines for Blocking Tankers

The Maritime Executive 05 Sep 2024
On March 19, a protestor lay in front of the tanker SCF Baltica, and they displayed banners reading “Oil Fuels War.” Days later on March 25, they used a small boat and others to stop the oil tanker Louie.
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Hot, dirty and dangerous: Aerial firefighting is a labor of love

The Los Angeles Times 03 Sep 2024
So when Reynolds confessed he wanted to fly grimy old air tankers, his instructor didn’t know how to react ... A couple of years later, he got his dream job flying a Vietnam War-era air tanker and diving directly at the flames.
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Salvage operation of MV Sounion oil tanker about to start

CyprusMail 02 Sep 2024
The salvage operation of the oil tanker MV Sounion, which was recently attacked by Iran-aligned Houthi militants, is about to begin, the European Union’s mission in the Red Sea, Aspides, said on Monday.
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Advancing Locust: The Need to End U.S. Forever Wars

GlobalResearch 02 Sep 2024
the Korean War (1950-1953), the Vietnam War (1955- 1975), the Cuban Bay of Pigs (1961), Lebanon (1982-1984), Grenada (1983), the bombing of Libya (1984) and the wars against Libya (2011, 2015-2019), ...
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Crippled oil tanker in Red Sea raises fears of environmental catastrophe

The Los Angeles Times 30 Aug 2024
The Houthis said they attacked the Sounion tanker as part of their 10-month campaign to support Palestinians in the Gaza war by targeting Israel-linked shipping in the Red Sea ... since World War II.
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Middle East crisis live: Israel and Hamas agree to limited fighting pauses in Gaza to ...

The Guardian 30 Aug 2024
WHO says fighting pauses agreed to allow polio vaccinations Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the Israel-Gaza war and the wider crisis in the Middle East ... law” and incite war crimes.
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Houthis Release Propaganda Video Showing Multiple Attacks on Sounion

The Maritime Executive 29 Aug 2024
The militant Houthis continue to use the burning oil tanker Sounion for their propaganda while emphasizing their determination to stop all shipping associated with Israel ... He said they destroyed the cargo as retaliation for Israel’s war in Gaza.
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Iran accuses some countries of 'negligence' in Red Sea oil tanker crisis, confirms truce for rescue ships

Anadolu Agency 29 Aug 2024
... already announced that it will—as long as the war on Gaza persists—continue to target oil tankers bound for the Israeli regime in the Red Sea," the mission said, referring to the Houthis.
photo: European Union's Operation Aspides via AP
This photo released by the European Union's Operation Aspides shows fires burning aboard the oil tanker Sounion in the Red Sea on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. The EU mission said Monday that there were no signs of an oil spill emanating from the Sounion, which came under repeated attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels amid their campaign targeting shipping over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
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Greek tanker attacked in Red Sea appears to be leaking oil, US says

Al Jazeera 28 Aug 2024

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