4 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Trump says he would want to know Kyiv’s plans for Tomahawk missiles before supplying them

US president says he has ‘sort of made a decision’ on whether to supply long-range missiles; Denmark to step up checks on oil tankers after drone sightings. What we know on day 1,322See all our Ukraine war overage Continue reading...

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7 d. 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 d. 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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8 d. 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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8 d. 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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9 d. 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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9 d. 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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9 d. 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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9 d. 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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9 d. 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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9 d. 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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1 week ago Russia 'using oil tankers as drone platforms' to launch attacks against Europe

As the Kremlin expands its threats towards the west Ukraine's leader warns Russia is using oil tankers as massive attack platforms from where troops can launch drone attacks against European targets

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3 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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3 w. ago Conviction: The Case of Lucy Letby review – documentary probes Britain’s most notorious baby killer

Channel 4’s film follows the fight to overturn Letby’s conviction, questioning expert testimony and exposing deep divisions over whether she is guilty or the victim of a miscarriage of justiceIs Lucy Letby innocent? Or, to put it another way, is there now enough reasonable doubt to declare her conviction unsafe? This documentary’s answer to the second question could hardly be clearer: yes.Letby was declared to be the biggest child serial killer in modern Britain, though she could yet go down in history as the subject of our era’s most serious miscarriage of justice. Public opinion, media mythology and the law turn as slowly as an oil tanker. Letby could walk free or she could end up the subject of unending and fruitless debate, in a kind of permanent standoff with her accusers, like the Menendez brothers in the US, contentiously convicted of killing their parents in 1989 and still in prison. Continue reading...

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3 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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