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Report: Venezuela Swaps Jet Fuel for Iranian Gasoline
Venezuela has been shipping jet fuel to Iran in trade for vital gasoline imports for the South American nation, according to an ex...
Read More >>Report: Canada's New Frigates Will Cost $4B Each, Including Taxes
Canada's parliamentary budget expert has completed a new estimate of the cost of the Royal Canadian Navy's future series o...
Read More >>Canada Launches International Effort to Detect Illegal Fishing
Canada is launching an international program to aid countries around the world to track illegal fishing activities. Using satellit...
Read More >>Video: USCG Takes 150 Rescued Sea Turtles Back to the Ocean
On Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard and its state and local partners released nearly 150 sea turtles that had been rescued from T...
Read More >>Biden Takes No Action Against Nord Stream 2 Participants
The Biden administration is taking a hands-off approach to Gazprom's nearly-complete Nord Stream 2 subsea pipeline, making no...
Read More >>Philippine Fishermen Call on UN to Invalidate China's Coast Guard Law
The Philippine artisanal fishermens' association Pamalakaya has called on the UN to declare China's new Coast Guard Law &q...
Read More >>Solomon Islands Seeks Compensation for "Deliberate" Fuel Oil Spill
The government of the Solomon Islands says that it is pursuing compensation from the owners of a bulker that allegedly discharged...
Read More >>Can 14 Nations Put Global Ocean Protection Back on Track?
[By Olive Heffernan] For ocean conservation, 2020 was a year of high hopes dashed. It had been billed as the year whe...
Read More >>How China is Bending the Rules in the South China Sea
[By Oriana Skylar Mastro] Chinese exercises in the South China Sea last month, and the strong U.S. response, show these dispute...
Read More >>UK-Kenya Trade Agreement May Threaten Regional Integration
The United Kingdom (UK) parliament has warned that the British government's new bilateral trade agreement with Kenya could und...
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