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An oil tanker exploded near Libya — it had recently entered a Russian port
Babel
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The Vilamoura tanker, carrying a million barrels of oil, exploded near Libya. The vessel had previously entered a Russian port. Bloomberg writes about this. According to a spokesman for TMS Tankers, the explosion caused water to enter the vessel,...
Oil Tanker Explodes Off Libyan Coast
Oil Price
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June 30, 2025
An oil tanker has suffered an explosion off Libya’s coast, without causing any injuries or pollution, the vessel operator said on Monday, adding that the cause of the explosion is not clear yet. The ship that carried about 1 million barrels of...
A Tanker Carrying A Million Barrels Of Oil Exploded Off The Coast Of Libya
Charter 97
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5 Prior to that, the vessel had twice called at Russian ports. The oil tanker Vilamoura, carrying 1 million barrels of oil, exploded off the coast of Libya. The ship had twice called at Russian ports, Bloomberg reported. The Vilamoura tanker is...
New space technology spots wildfires in their first crucial hours when they're still small enough to contain
Hindustan Times
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June 30, 2025
Remember the Uttarakhand forest fires that raged for weeks in 2016? Or the massive blazes that swept through Himachal Pradesh last year? The pattern is always the same - by the time we spot most wildfires, they're already unstoppable monsters...
Libyan Media: Benghazi-based Govt Ready to Ratify Maritime Deal With Turkey
To Vima
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June 29, 2025
Libyan media on Sunday were reporting that the North African country’s House of Representatives was moving towards a “unanimous” ratification this week of a controversial 2019 Turkey-Libya maritime accord, citing an unnamed deputy. The report was...
Libya hosts Arab Planning Institute meeting in Tripoli
The Libya Observer
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ThecMinistry of Planning hosted the second meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Arab Planning Institute for the 2024–2025 term on Sunday in Tripoli, with participation from representatives of several Arab countries. The meeting, held at the...
Libya’s eastern gov’t rejects Greek objections to deal with Türkiye
Hurriyet Daily News
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BENGHAZI Libya’s eastern-based government has firmly rejected recent Greek objections to the 2019 maritime boundary agreement signed between Türkiye and the Tripoli-based Libyan government, asserting that the deal remains legitimate under...
LBC establishes first private-sector led industrial financing fund in Libya
Libya Herald
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June 29, 2025
The Libyan Business Council (LBC) hosted at its Tripoli headquarters today the first meeting of the technical committee responsible for preparing the organisational structure of the Libya Industrial Development Fund. The meeting, the LBC...
Ukrainian political scientist: Fear and pressure are becoming the Kremlin's main management tools
APA
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For centuries, the Russian Empire has not only sought to conquer territories but also entire peoples — their identities and their futures. Moscow’s state ideology has never been built on voluntary unity, but rather on force, assimilation, and...
Major DNA breakthrough by scientists investigating Lockerbie bombing
Daily Express
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June 29, 2025
Forensic experts have made a major breakthrough, extracting DNA for the first time from the suitcase that contained the Lockerbie bomb. The explosion on board Pan Am flight 103 and the crash killed 270 people in Britain's most deadly terrorist...
Libyan Italian Forum concludes with the signing of 98 MoUs
Libya Herald
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June 27, 2025
The Libyan Italian Forum (Benghazi, 25-26 June) concluded its second and final day yesterday with the Director General of the Libya Development and Reconstruction Fund, Belgassem Hafter, signing ‘‘several memorandums of understanding with 98...
UN mission in Libya faces sharp criticism
Libyan Express
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June 28, 2025
UN mission under fire amid political crisisThe Libyan capital, Tripoli, is experiencing a growing wave of public frustration with the performance of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). Increasingly, citizens perceive the mission...
Libya’s UN Amb. Responds to Greece Over Maritime Dispute at Security Council
To Vima
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June 25, 2025
A diplomatic exchange between Greece and Libya unfolded during a recent session of the UN Security Council, highlighting renewed tensions over disputed maritime zones in the Eastern Mediterranean. The meeting, which focused on developments in...
Waha Oil adopts Fiberspar technology at Al-Samah Field
Libyan Express
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June 27, 2025
Section of the 1,600-metre composite pipeline connecting well VV-28 to Al-Blat stationWaha Oil Company has completed the connection of a newly drilled well (VV-28) to the Al-Blat station at the Al-Samah field, using Fiberspar composite pipeline...
Libyan-Italian economic forum kicks off in Benghazi
The Libya Observer
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The Libyan-Italian Economic Forum officially launched on Tuesday in the city of Benghazi, coinciding with the inauguration of the first direct flight by Italy’s national airline from Rome to Benghazi. The three-day forum is hosting around 100...
War in the Unmanned, Digital Age – Athens Takes Note
To Vima
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June 30, 2025
Just as the world breathed a sigh of relief with the end of the Covid pandemic, another global shock rolled along. And while Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 seemed like a “throwback” to a bygone era of continental mega-clashes, it...
Bombing our way to peace will not secure lasting nuclear deal
Irish Examiner
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July 1, 2025
In 1966, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and China not only were the only countries that possessed nuclear weapons, they also had enough wisdom to recognise the dangers posed by nuclear proliferation.Despite their many and...
Oil tanker damaged by blast weeks after visiting Russian ports, Bloomberg reports
The Kyiv Independent
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June 30, 2025
A tanker carrying 1 million barrels of oil experienced an explosion near Libya, its operator TMS Tankers said on June 30. The vessel, Vilamoura, is now being towed to Greece, where the extent of the damage will be assessed upon arrival. The blast...
Turkey to start exploring for gas off Libya
Kathimerini
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[Website of Libya’s National Oil Corporation] Turkey is moving slowly and methodically in its developing relations with Libya so as not to disrupt the delicate balance it has achieved with the United States, as is evident from the memorandum of...
Nuclear Truths and Selective Justice: The Treaty and the West’s Dance With ‘Hypocrity’ (2), By Hassan Gimba
News Diary Online
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July 1, 2025
Of course, one must ask that question because everyone, especially those accusing Iran of inching towards acquiring the nuclear bomb, knew it was not so. After all, the country spent a whole year implementing the JCPOA agreement, even after Trump...