5 h. ago Detained oil tanker linked to Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ makes shock move

The vessel’s captain has since been charged with refusing to follow instructions from the French navy

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7 h. ago Russian 'shadow fleet' ship boarded by French troops 'may be linked to NINE drone attacks on European targets'

A Russian shadow fleet ship that was raided by French troops may be linked to at least nine drone attacks on European targets, including airports. 

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28 h. ago France urges tougher action against Russia, saying drones should be shot down and oil ships stopped

French President Emmanuel Macron says Europe must take a tougher approach on Russia by shooting down drones the violate European airspace and boarding Moscow's shadow fleet ships

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30 h. ago French troops arrest captain of Russian ‘shadow fleet’ oil tanker feared to be behind Denmark drone incursions

The ship was sailing off the coast of Denmark at around the time of the drone incursions

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31 h. ago French police detain 2 crew members of oil tanker linked to Russia's shadow fleet

French authorities have detained two crew members of an oil tanker linked to Russia's shadow fleet, which avoids Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict

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40 h. ago Arrests are made after French special forces boarded Russian ghost ship 'linked to Denmark airport chaos'

Two people were arrested on Wednesday after French troops boarded the oil tanker Boracay, which is suspected  of belonging to the so-called shadow fleet involved in the Russian oil trade.

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45 h. ago French special forces board Russian tanker linked to 'drone ship' reports

French military personnel were Wednesday on the deck of a tanker alleged to be from Russia's 'shadow fleet' stationed off France and suspected of involvement in drone flights over Denmark.

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46 h. ago French special forces board Russian tanker linked to'drone ship' reports

French military personnel were Wednesday on the deck of a tanker alleged to be from Russia's 'shadow fleet' stationed off France and suspected of involvement in drone flights over Denmark.

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46 h. ago Oil tanker off French coast linked to Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’

French President Emmanuel Macron believes an oil tanker off the French coast has committed ‘very serious wrongdoings’

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47 h. ago French troops board 'Russian shadow fleet' tanker suspected to be involved in Danish drone incursions

French military personnel were Wednesday on the deck of a tanker alleged to be from Russia's 'shadow fleet' stationed off France and suspected of involvement in drone flights over Denmark.

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48 h. ago Macron says a tanker off France is linked to Russia's shadow oil fleet

French President Emmanuel Macron says an oil tanker off the French coast has committed "very serious wrongdoings."

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3 d. ago Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon review – his first novel in 12 years tunes into rising fascism in the US

The 88-year-old’s jaunty whodunnit, set during the prohibition era, features clowns, Nazis and a missing cheese heiressEverything is connected in Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon’s fleet-footed noir fiction about a lindy-hopping detective in prohibition-era Wisconsin. The homemade bomb connects to the runaway cheese heiress, the cheese heiress to the federal agents, and the feds to the pro‑Nazi leagues at the bowling lanes outside town. Early-30s Milwaukee, in turn, is connected to powder-keg central Europe, where paramilitary groups have pitched camp on the Hungaro-Croatian border and guest speakers wax lyrical about “our immense fascist future”. Most likely it connects to the current moment as well, albeit wryly and slyly, with a nonchalant swing. That’s the implied final move of this merry dance of a book: the point where the past links its hands with the present.Shadow Ticket is a Pynchon novel – the 88-year-old’s first in 12 years; his ninth overall – and so it naturally connects ...

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2 w. ago EU chief urges bloc members to sanction Russia's LNG exports

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU should slap new sanctions on Russia’s exports of liquefied natural gas, its shadow fleet of aging oil tankers and major energy companies over its war on Ukraine

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2 w. ago ‘There are hundreds in the Baltic’: tracking Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ of oil tankers

The Guardian joins the Swedish coastguard to patrol an area that has become a hybrid warfare battleground In front of a bank of screens on the boat’s bridge, the Swedish coastguard Jan Erik Antonsson shows on a live map on a laptop how many vessels of Russia’s “shadow fleet” there are in the area. “These green symbols are the shadow fleet,” he says. More than a dozen green triangles representing shadow fleet vessels pop up around the coastline of southern Sweden alone.Every day hundreds of shadow fleet ships – unregulated ageing tankers from around the world in varying states of repair carrying oil from Russia to states including China and India – are moving through a relatively narrow passage in the Baltic. Continue reading...

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