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'The global economy as we know it would come to a sudden halt': Shipping authorities from 18 countries warn of a 'two-tier' system imperiling trade

The Consultative Shipping Group said the emergence of shadow fleets have created a split in maritime systems: “one governed by rules, the other by opacity.”

Fortune

Has Iran modified its rocket systems to fire mines into the Strait of Hormuz?

Fighting escalated in the Middle East over the weekend after US airstrikes on Sunday targeted Iranian rocket launchers on the island of Larak. The exchange of fire was instigated by the US in retaliation against Iran’s new capabilities for firing mines from rockets into the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s use…

France 24

Digital bottleneck: How Iran wants to use internet access as leverage in the war

Tehran is floating the idea of charging the world’s largest tech companies – including Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon – for using the undersea internet cables crossing the Strait of Hormuz in a new attempt to exploit its control over the critical waterway to ratchet up economic pressure on the…

France 24

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As Ukraine war rages, Russia activates sabotage plans in Europe: Experts

Russia is accused of putting into effect psychological, economic and military operations planned by the USSR.

Al Jazeera

Russian diplomacy leverages Israel-Hamas war for moral high ground

The latest Middle East war could help Russia escape punishment for aggression and war crimes in Ukraine, say experts.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine recap: counteroffensive makes slow progress while diplomacy fails to make any ground at all

So the Ukrainian counteroffensive is well and truly underway, even if progress is measured in metres rather than the rapid advances that characterised Ukraine’s highly successful push last autumn. Volodymyr Zelensky himself has confirmed this, saying progress has been “slower than desired” and noting that the Russian invaders have mined…

The Conversation

Ukraine war: Kremlin's threat to interfere with undersea data cables may be bluster, but must be taken seriously

In what is more than likely to turn out to be an attempt at escalation in the confrontation between Nato and Russia over the war in Ukraine, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev argued recently on his Telegram channel that Russia should have the right to attack submarine data cables.

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Ukraine recap: diplomatic manoeuvres intensify in advance of a possible spring offensive

A quick check of the Met office forecasts for Ukraine suggests that over the next week or so the weather is going to get steadily warmer. The rising mercury has fuelled speculation that Ukraine’s much discussed spring offensive is just around the corner, the only questions being when and where…

The Conversation

Russian 'spy ship' in North Sea raises concerns about the vulnerability of key maritime infrastructure

A new documentary produced by a consortium of public broadcasters in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway has revealed what appears to be a profound threat to maritime and undersea energy and data infrastructure in the North Sea and the Baltic region. The Shadow War includes footage of a Russian research…

The Conversation

Ukraine recap: bad news from the battlefield for Putin, renewed nuclear threats from Russia

Vladimir Putin had barely finished his speech last Friday welcoming four new regions into Mother Russia, when his mouthpiece, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov admitted that they didn’t actually know where the borders of these regions were. “We will clarify everything today,” he said, when quizzed as to whether Russia…

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Nord Stream pipeline sabotage: how an attack could have been carried out and why Europe was defenceless

Whatever caused the damage to the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, it appears to be the first major attack on critical “subsea” (underwater) infrastructure in Europe. It’s now widely thought – not least by Nato – that the explosions that led to major leaks in the two…

The Conversation

Threat looms of Russian attack on undersea cables to shut down West’s internet

US President Joe Biden warned this week that Russia is considering attacks on critical infrastructure. One of the scenarios that has been mooted since the start of the war in Ukraine is that Moscow will attack undersea cables in order to cut off the world's internet. But this worst-case scenario…

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