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January 3, 2025
Venezuelan oil exports increased 10.5% in the last year, despite the political instability of the country and the changes made to the U.S. sanction regime. This was due to partners of the state oil company PDVSA taking more cargoes with licenses issued by Washington.
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January 2, 2025
The national guard reported on Thursday that the Tunisian coast guard had recovered the bodies 27 African migrants who were trying to cross the Mediterranean by two boats. The boats went down in the waters near Sfax, which is a popular departure point for African migrants.
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January 1, 2025
Rio Tinto, a miner in Australia, said that a deckfitter aboard its bulk carrier traveling from China to Western Australia had been reported missing the previous week. The Philippine Coast Guard is leading a search-and-rescue operation. Rio Tinto…
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January 1, 2025
The mayor of Lampedusa, an Italian island, said that seven migrants had been rescued but that at least twenty were still missing. Their boat was en route from Libya to Italy when it sank. One of those who survived was an eight-year-old Syrian child, who hoped to join his German-based father.
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January 1, 2025
The port data viewed by revealed that Egypt's state grain purchaser, Mostakbal Misr for Sustainable Development received its first wheat shipment imported on December 30, 2018. The Mikhail Nenashev, carrying a shipment of 28,000 tons, arrived at Alexandria's port.
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December 31, 2024
On Tuesday, Ukrainian military intelligence reported that one of their naval drones destroyed a Russian helicopter in the Black Sea and damaged another. Ukraine's GUR intelligence agency reported on Telegram that a Magura V5 naval drone with…
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December 30, 2024
Karpowership of Turkey, the owner of a fleet of floating power plants, announced on Monday that it is just one of several options being considered for providing electricity in Syria. After rebels supported by Turkey overthrew Bashar al Assad in Syria's neighbouring country this month…
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December 30, 2024
The Finnish Coast Guard said Monday that it would deploy one of its patrol boats and a towboat to help an oil tanker in the Gulf of Finland after its engine failed. It was trying to avoid environmental damage. The coast guard reported that the 183-metre-long (600-foot-long) M/T Jazz…
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December 29, 2024
State media KCNA reported on Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un celebrated the completion a new fish farming facility in the east and called for the development of rural areas. This was amid concern over the chronic economic problems.
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December 29, 2024
Authorities in Moldova's. separatist Transdniestria region on Sunday cut off gas products. to numerous state institutions as a deal enabling Russian gas to. transit through Ukraine concerns an end at the close of the. year. The cutoff was enforced 2 days before the transit deal runs.
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December 29, 2024
In a statement issued on Sunday, the Environment Ministry did not reveal the nationalities involved. However, it confirmed that one tourist had been killed and another injured by a shark in Egypt's Marsa Alam Resort. Sharks are present in the Red Sea, but they are rare.
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December 27, 2024
Blake Horvath rushed for 155 yard and two touchdowns, and Navy stopped Oklahoma’s two-point convertion in the final second to win 21-20 in the Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth on Friday. Jake Roberts caught a 10-yard pass from Michael Hawkins Jr. with just six seconds left.
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December 27, 2024
Two sources who have direct knowledge of the matter said that Egypt's state grain purchaser, Mostakbal misr for Sustainable Development (Mostakbal Misr), has secured enough wheat to cover Egypt's requirements through June 2025. Some traders…
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December 26, 2024
U.S. President elect Donald Trump appointed Miami-Dade County commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera as ambassador to Panama, after threatening to reassert U.S. control over the Panama Canal that it handed over to Panama 25 years ago. Cabrera was…
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December 26, 2024
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egyptian president, said that the Red Sea events and regional challenges will cost Egypt $7 billion in revenue from the Suez Canal by 2024. Sisi, in a statement without giving any details, said that Egypt lost 60% of its canal revenues between 2024 and 2023.
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December 26, 2024
According to LSEG, a sanctioned LNG-tanker named "Mulan", that approached Novatek’s SAAM FSU floating store facility in Murmansk in December 21, is now sailing around Northern Europe on its way towards Port Said, Egypt. The vessel should arrive at its destination by January 6, 2025.
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December 25, 2024
Master Lock Comanche, LawConnect and other favourites took an early lead on Thursday in the 79th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. The supermaxis were leading the 104 yachts out into the South Pacific. LawConnect, who won line honours in an exciting finish last year by only 51 seconds…
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December 25, 2024
The owner of the Russian cargo vessel Ursa Major, which sank into the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, said that the ship was a victim of an "act of terrorism". This statement came from the state news agency RIA. Two of the 16 crew members were reported missing after an explosion in the engine room.
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December 24, 2024
Initial assessments by European traders indicate that Algeria's state grain agency OAIC bought milling wheat at an international auction which ended on Tuesday. They reported that the cost of a metric tonne, including freight and cost (c&f), was between $257 and $258.
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December 24, 2024
Brian Newberry, who grew up in Norman, Okla. and supported the Oklahoma Sooners, is a native of the area. Newberry's second season as Navy head coach will come to an end when the Midshipmen face the Sooners at the Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth on Friday.
