"The bottom line is, sir, the international waters are international waters," he said, adding that the US needs to ensure that freedom of navigation.
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Incident in international waters The incident, the latest encounter in international waters in the South China Sea region, occurred earlier this week about 100 miles off the Philippine port at Subic Bay.
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Washington said the drone was shot down over international waters.
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The U.S. said China's "unlawful seizure" came in international waters.
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The U.S. claims the drone was operating over international waters.
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IRANIAN OFFICIAL SAYS BOTH TANKERS ARE IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS - TASNIM
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US ships also regularly operate in international waters near China.
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U.S. officials have maintained it was flying over international waters.
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The Strait of Hormuz comprises Iranian, Omani, and international waters.
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A couple asked me if we were in international waters.
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"The rescues are always in international waters, very close to Libya."
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The Kingston talks, meanwhile, are working on rules for international waters.
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"They were released in international waters after they apologised," it added.
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The Porter was in international waters at the time, he added.
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It is entirely normal for reconnaissance vessels to patrol international waters.
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"Mining in international waters is an act of war," he said.
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This is particularly true when objects have been found in international waters.
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The ship was in international waters and near the Strait of Hormuz.
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Maltese national TV said the ship was in international waters near Malta.
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That could eventually take some pressure off African and other international waters.
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ICAO last year helped Qatar Airways access contingency routes over international waters.
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Migrants who are intercepted before reaching international waters can be returned there.
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American officials said the USS Porter was conducting routine operations in international waters.
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But Carter said the U.S. would continue to freely sail through international waters.
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India and China are exploring the seabed in international waters for valuable minerals.
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North Korea has also threatened to shoot down U.S. aircraft over international waters.
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With luck, they will be rescued in international waters shortly after they embark.
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Once the migrants reach international waters they call for help by satellite phone.
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This is the latest encounter in international waters in the South China Sea region.
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Trump told reporters later Thursday morning that the drone had been over international waters.
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The initial reports indicated the two concerning encounters occurred Tuesday night in international waters.
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UNOPS also said that events that transpire in international waters are beyond its remit.
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Maritime laws prohibit stained tankers from navigating international waters until hull cleaning is performed.
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The U.S. policy has been that the region is international waters, allowing open access.
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One possibility might be to attempt a ship-to-ship transfer in international waters.
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The Anthem is a Bahamian-flagged ship in international waters, according to the NTSB.
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There's duty-free shopping on board, but it's only available when in international waters.
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Bottomless drinking, eating, and partying while out on international waters is a glorious experience.
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But experts view that existing patchwork as inadequate to manage ecosystems in international waters.
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The U.S. has insisted on its right to transit through the region in international waters.
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Regardless, the incident occurred in international waters and unusually far away from Russia, Schuster said.
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The ship, approximately 30 miles from the U.S. naval base, is still in international waters.
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Under marine law, any vessel sailing in international waters must be registered with a state.
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Such operations involve sending warships into international waters if they are claimed by other countries.
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He has previously advocated permanent autonomous Libertarian sea-dwellings that would operate in international waters.
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Greek officials said the boat had overturned in international waters that were under Egypt's authority.
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And it's in their interest to ensure that there's a free navigation of international waters.
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This is part of why the United States stresses freedom of movement in international waters.
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But the ship was in international waters in the Arabian Sea, according to two officials.
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Tripoli Benghazi Territorial and internal waters ALGERIA LIBYA EGYPT GREECE International waters ITALY MALTA Dec.
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Tripoli Benghazi Territorial and internal waters LIBYA ALGERIA EGYPT GREECE International waters ITALY MALTA Dec.
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Elwartowski and Ocean Builders say the vessel was in international waters and beyond Thailand's jurisdiction.
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Iran said the drone was in its airspace, but Washington said it was over international waters.
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Iran said the drone was in its airspace, but Washington claims it was over international waters.
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We'll take this new aggression to #UN & show that the US is lying about international waters.
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It determines Slovenia's access from its coastal waters to international waters further out in the Adriatic.
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America insisted the aircraft was above international waters, not Iran's, and sent warplanes to strike back.
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In 2013, small Navy patrol ships engaged Iranian gunboats at least three times in international waters.
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Iran said it had strayed into its airspace, the US said it was over international waters.
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Washington's envoy to NATO said Russia was within its rights to move vessels through international waters.
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Washington's envoy to NATO said Russia was within its right to move vessels through international waters.
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LOCATION: Eastern Pacific OceanDATE: June 18, 2019The pursuit occurred on international waters in the Pacific Ocean.
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China first took the drone from international waters off the coast of the Philippines last Thursday.
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And they defiantly harass our ships and aircraft in the international waters of the Baltic Sea.
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The two countries differ on whether the drone was in Iran's airspace or above international waters.
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While Iran says the drone entered its airspace, American officials say it was in international waters.
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"It's never appropriate to shoot down another country's aircraft when it's over international waters," Sanders responded.
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STENA BULK CEO SAYS BRITISH-FLAGGED OIL TANKER STENA IMPERO REACHED INTERNATIONAL WATERS AT 0945 GMT
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It continues its practice of abducting U.S. citizens and threatening U.S. naval vessels transiting international waters.
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In December, an Iranian military ship fired a missile near American and French vessels in international waters.
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Rescue ship Lifeline, with more than 0003 migrants aboard, is stuck in international waters in the Mediterranean.
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Belgian ships regularly take part in missions to control the international waters off the coast of Europe.
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This time, there are reports the carrier may conduct bombing exercises in international waters north of Scotland.
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US officials say the operations are meant to enforce the right of free passage in international waters.
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Most rescues take place just outside the 12-mile mark that separates Libyan territory from international waters.
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The EU is already training the Libyan coastguard in Italy and in international waters off North Africa.
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But they continued to dispute fishing rights until 1992, leaving a baguette-shaped corridor to international waters.
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The U.S. also fired warning shots at Iranian ships in international waters near the strait in January.
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The United States could also position more naval craft in international waters off the North Korean coast.
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Beijing agreed to return an underwater drone that it had seized in international waters, the Pentagon said.
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Rabiei did not say when the tanker would actually commence its voyage or re-enter international waters.
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The Russian vessel has patrolled in international waters along the eastern US coast every year since 2015.
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Rome has banned entry to private rescue ships, which operate off Libya in international waters close to Italy.
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"Seasteading" is an initiative aimed at establishing floating communities in international waters beyond the influence of government regulation.
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Iran claims the aircraft was flying over its territorial waters, while America insists it was above international waters.
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While still patrolling international waters, China can be more accommodating of other countries' fishing vessels in the region.
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The Getty has maintained that the piece was found in international waters and its own acquisition was legal.
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They were escorted by Iranian boats, which turned back when they reached the rendezvous point in international waters.
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We're only slightly jealous that Kadiju gets to have "born in international waters" on her birth certificate now.
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Italy argues that the case should not be heard in India because the incident occurred in international waters.
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Ocean Builders, which funded and built the cabin, said on its website the structure was in international waters.
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Rescue vessel Lifeline is carrying more than 230 migrants and is stuck in international waters in the Mediterranean.
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The planes stayed in international waters, but they flew farther north than any other American plane this century.
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The U.S., which treats the sea as international waters, regularly sends military ships and planes through the area.
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Without insurance, a vessel cannot navigate in international waters, which means Venezuela's oil exports would likely be curtailed.
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"This is the latest of many provocative and hostile actions by Iran against vessels operating in international waters."
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Ukraine and other countries, which do not recognise Russia's annexation of Crimea, said they were in international waters.
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The two countries disagree about where the drone was shot down: over international waters or in Iranian airspace.
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At the moment, a variety of regional agreements and international laws govern what is permitted in international waters.
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The vessel departed Venezuela's Jose Terminal on Thursday and entered international waters on Friday morning, the refiner said.
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The U.S. said the drone was being operated by civilian contractors collecting unclassified scientific data in international waters.
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In June, Mr. Trump announced a new round in response to Tehran's actions against tankers in international waters.
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Most of the fishing for scallops actually takes place beyond the 12-mile limit where International waters begin.
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Italy's Coast Guard is in charge of coordinating all rescues in international waters off the shores of Libya.
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On August 26, Hook directly emailed an Indian ship captain piloting an Iranian oil tanker in international waters.
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Duterte said despite China's behavior to the contrary, the majority of the South China Sea was international waters.
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Kelly's advocacy for and approval of a program interdicting individuals in international waters represents a most interesting concept.
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Much of Russia's naval training occurs in international waters near Norway, giving it a privileged perch for observation.
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Russian Federal Security Service agents captured the Arctic Sunrise in international waters after a protest against an oil platform.
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Then, the Aquarius takes those it has rescued to Europe and immediately returns to international waters to continue working.
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The official said the Cook was operating in international waters 70 nautical miles off the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
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This case demonstrates that the ownership of cultural objects found in international waters remains a murky area of law.
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Libyan ships are thought to bring the petrol out to international waters, then transfer it to non-Libyan tankers.
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Floating arsenals deliver weapons to ships by speedboat in international waters, to get around gun controls on the land.
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It also has sites in Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, as well as international waters in the eastern Pacific.
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What happens if Iranian ships are targeted in international waters, and they choose to retaliate in the same fashion?
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"We were in international waters," a NATO diplomat reported Lute as telling Grushko during the NATO-Russia council meeting.
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Migrants are packed by smugglers onto flimsy rubber boats that struggle to make it to international waters before sinking.
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Latest project: In "Sunnyside," he plays a "catastrophically dumb" fashionista of mysterious origins ("our dad lives in international waters").
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The assertion came amid reports of secret ship-to-ship transfers in international waters by Chinese and Russian vessels.
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In 2010, he wrote a long essay for the Hoover Institution on modernizing nuclear nonproliferation strategy in international waters.
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The group added that the Libyan authorities declared their own rescue area, extending into international waters, the same day.
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Or maybe you imagine a raucous boat of rock stars, buoyed by the consequence-free promise of international waters.
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Instead, the ship would be met in international waters by the Maltese navy, which would transfer the people to Malta.
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The U.S. claims the drone, an RQ-4A Global Hawk worth more than $100 million, was flying over international waters.
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Libya's coastguard has already been pushing further into international waters, often firing warning shots or speeding close to charity boats.
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The tanker was in international waters west of Al Hudaydah, according to a statement by the Saudi coalition spokesman, Col.
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The United States does not recognize China's claim of sovereignty in that location and regards the area as international waters.
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"This is the latest of many provocative and hostile actions by Iran against vessels operating in international waters," Trump said.
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"This is the latest of many provocative and hostile actions by Iran against vessels operating in international waters," said Trump.
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"This is the latest provocative and hostile actions by Iran against vessels operating in international waters," Trump told reporters Thursday.
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Previously, he was head of business development for the Seasteading Institute, an effort to create autonomous cities in international waters.
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"We see the Taiwan Strait as another (stretch of) international waters, so that's why we do the transits," Richardson said.
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The seizure was made in the eastern Pacific in international waters after an air patrol spotted the suspected smuggling ship.
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So far the U.N. body, headquartered in Jamaica, has drawn up regulations on exploration, but not exploitation for international waters.
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The ship remained in international waters, not in U.S. territory, and similar Russian activity has been detected in years past.
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On Saturday the Lincoln was steaming in international waters east of Oman and about 200 miles from Iran's southern coastline.
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The American defense officials who spoke to Reuters contended that the US aircraft had been flying legally over international waters.
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Even the Trump administration is likely to rule out nabbing the ship in international waters, which would cause an outcry.
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Officials have said the ship was in international waters off the coast of Poland at the time of the incident.
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More than one-third of the boats detected by the trackers had no AIS in international waters, the study said.
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Iran claimed the unmanned aircraft had been flying in Iranian air space, not over international waters as the US claimed.
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US jurisdiction extends 12 nautical miles (13.8 miles) from the coast, meaning that the Russian ship was likely in international waters.
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Much of it has to do with the fact that these ships operating in international waters are governed by maritime law.
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The sources said crews from both vessels, which they had said had been struck in international waters, had been safely evacuated.
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Both companies are long-term investments for SoftBank, but SoftBank believes its experience and network can help them navigate international waters.
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The fishing boat, Santa Madre de Loreto, rescued 12 migrants in international waters off the coast of Libya 10 days ago.
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Beijing, too, frequently sends warships and aircraft to inspect U.S. and other foreign forces operating in international waters near its territory.
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Iranian officials have said the drone was in their airspace while Washington has said the drone was flying over international waters.
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I'm doing the FEIE through the physical-presence test, which means spending 24 hours in international waters, like cruises, is out.
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More recently, Women on Waves has been providing abortions in international waters for those who can't get them legally at home.
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At the same time, a North Korean submarine was spotted in international waters engaging in "unusual activity," two defense officials said.
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The Russian Defense Ministry also said the U.S. plane was over international waters, but described it as approaching the Russian border.
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The United States Navy just reported "multiple, aggressive flight maneuvers by Russian aircraft" on two separate occasions while in international waters.
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In June, a Russian fighter jet intercepted a US bomber over the Baltic Sea in international waters in such an interaction.
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" His comments come as the U.S. military accuses Iran of shooting down a drone over international waters in an "unprovoked attack.
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While the strait constitutes international waters, China is thought to be very sensitive about the presence of US military forces there.
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Autonomous ships are an area of particular interest for the International Maritime Organization (IMO), which sets the standards for international waters.
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Iran maintains that the drone it shot down had violated its airspace; American officials insist it had been over international waters.
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While seabed mining has occurred at shallower locations within national borders, it has never been conducted in deep international waters before.
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Mr. Mattis's original plan may have been to subtly guide the ship of state through treacherous international waters for four years.
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For three days, we idled in international waters between Myanmar and Thailand waiting for the boat to appear on the horizon.
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When asked about these Iranian threats, Shanahan said the U.S. will continue to be the guarantor of free navigation in international waters.
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Smugglers pack the migrants onto ill-equipped boats that usually get picked up by European rescue vessels once they reach international waters.
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Trump said the Monday after his inauguration that the U.S. would prevent China from taking territory in international waters in the region.
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The CMF is a multinational naval partnership -- which includes France -- that helps police more than 3 million square miles of international waters.
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The freedom of navigation operations are intended to show that American vessels can sail in international waters at any time they desire.
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More than 7,100 people have now been plucked from international waters since Thursday, many of them on the dangerous journey from Libya.
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The US warship was conducting routine operations in international waters off the Yemen coast when it was targeted Wednesday, the Pentagon said.
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Ettore Ruiu confirmed to BuzzFeed News that a patrol aircraft had spotted C-Star in international waters near Libya at 9.00 a.m.
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Both the President and Secretary Rex Tillerson need experienced hands to help steer the ship of state in today's choppy international waters.
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The Australian government has a harsh policy of turning boats laden with asylum seekers back at sea, towing them into international waters.
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But now a British tanker is in the clutches of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps after it was seized in international waters.
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It also says that Iran shot down an American surveillance drone over international waters, though Iran says it was in its airspace.
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Most crucially, it granted the Alpine country of two million people direct access to international waters via a 10-nautical-mile corridor.
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If the islands were Saudi, though, the straits between the islands and Egypt would become international waters, instead of Egyptian territorial waters.
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In this series on lawlessness on the high seas, Ian Urbina reveals that crime and violence in international waters often goes unpunished.
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The European Union is training officers in the Libyan Coast Guard to intercept and rescue migrant boats before they reach international waters.
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The USS Mustin received the vehicle for the U.S. in international waters about 50 miles northwest of Subic Bay, according to Cook.
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A defense official said that the jet was supporting Alligator Dagger, a training exercise in international waters off the coast of Djibouti.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Detained British tanker Stena Impero began moving from the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas toward international waters at 9 a.m.
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The Trump administration has chosen to resume the Obama administration's freedom-of-navigation patrols through the international waters now claimed by China.
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The Viktor Leonov regularly patrols in international waters along the eastern coast of the US, having done so every year since 2015.
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Tehran has also said that the drone breached its air space, though American officials said the drone had been over international waters.
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Another one over international waters off Lebanon can cover the rest of the country, including Damascus and the southern border with Jordan.
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Previous reports have placed Rolls-Royce at still some 10 to 15 years away from deploying a large drone vessel in international waters.
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On May 24th America carried out its first freedom-of-navigation operation (sending warships through international waters) since the election of Donald Trump.
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But as early as 2015, Didi began dipping its toes in international waters through investments in companies like Lyft, Grab and, later, Taxify.
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Since debt-laden PDVSA cannot afford to have the ships cleaned, they have to wait for weeks to navigate international waters, delaying shipments.
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Yet even if the Danish were to reject construction in its territory, the pipeline would simply be altered to pass through international waters.
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Trump appeared to be referring to a series of close encounters between the US and Iran in international waters in the Persian Gulf.
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Some 2,300 migrants were pulled from rubber and wooden boats in international waters between Libya and Italy on Thursday, the Italian coastguard said.
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With the permission of Panamanian authorities, Italian finance police seized the vessel in international waters on July 31 and escorted it to Palermo.
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In September, five Chinese Navy ships sailed in international waters in the Bering Sea off Alaska, in an apparent first for China's military.
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Russian Federal Security Service agents captured the vessel — the Arctic Sunrise — in international waters in 2013 after a protest against an oil platform.
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Any area that is not in an EEZ is considered international waters and subject to UN maritime law, meaning it's shared by everyone.
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That's according to an official at the International Maritime Organization in London, which is responsible for regulating shipping and safety of international waters.
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China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act.
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Rebecca Gomperts is the brain behind Women on Waves—a Dutch organization famous for performing abortions on international waters to defy local laws.
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While the strait constitutes international waters, China is thought to be very sensitive about the presence of US military forces in the area.
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While the strait constitutes international waters, China is thought to be very sensitive about the presence of US military forces in the strait.
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He was told that Chinese vessels had surrounded the USNS Impeccable, an unarmed American survey ship, in international waters near China's Hainan island.
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The near miss occurred over international waters on Monday morning, approximately 25 miles northwest of Kaliningrad – a Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania.
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Wolters said that NATO has tracked every intercept for the past four years, and that thousands of intercepts have occurred over international waters.
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In seizing a foreign tanker which it accuses of "violating international regulations," Tehran has resorted to a form of piracy in international waters.
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Secretary of State Nominee Rex Tillerson has also made it clear that the U.S. won't let China keep building islands in international waters.
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Naval officers boarded the yacht, the Zaytouna-Oliva, at dusk on Wednesday in international waters, after it had spent eight days at sea.
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Besides logistics like booking flights and accommodations, Ms. Monahan had to get permission from the right authorities to swim in various international waters.
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Trump also said the United States has documented that its drone was in international waters, not in Iranian territory, as Tehran has said.
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It was passing through international waters through the Strait of Gibraltar and there is no law that allows England to stop this tanker.
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Firing on unarmed ships in international waters is a direct assault on the rules-based international order in which liberals claim to believe.
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That led Iran to lash out by force — such as bombing oil tankers in international waters — and by provocatively restarting its nuclear work.
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The vessel, Lighthouse Winmore, transferred refined petroleum products to a North Korean ship in international waters in late October, the official told Reuters.
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While Qatar can still export through international waters, via Iran's and Oman's coast, it has to face the challenge of finding new ports.
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The seizure of the drone in international waters last week escalated the tense exchanges between President-elect Donald J. Trump and China's media.
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The rescue ship, Aquarius, was drifting in international waters on Monday after Italy's new interior minister stopped it docking in an Italian port.
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Officers on the Japanese-based Reagan described frequent close quarter surveillance from the ships of the People's Liberation Army Navy in international waters.
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Six years later, a flotilla of fishing boats intercepted the US Navy surveillance ship Impeccable in international waters in the South China Sea.
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Iran has said the drone was shot down in its territorial waters while U.S. officials have said the drone was in international waters.
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Slovenia is demanding access to international waters in the Northern Adriatic, where its territory is squeezed to a coastal sliver between Croatia and Italy.
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Washington (CNN)China has agreed to return the US underwater drone that it seized in international waters earlier this week, the Pentagon said Saturday.
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China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act. Rep.
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Cruise ship company Celebrity Cruises has announced the commencement of legal same-sex marriages onboard their ships, officiated by the captain in international waters.
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Ukraine has said the sailors are prisoners of war who were captured in international waters, while Moscow argues that the ships violated Russia's borders.
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On Saturday, multiple missiles were fired at the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mason while it was in international waters off the coast of Yemen.
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Captains almost always abandon their ships in international waters, leaving the migrants with a satellite phone and the number for the Italian Coast Guard.
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She also said Robinson failed to question the raid of Sheikha Latifa's boat in international waters amid her second escape attempt earlier this year.
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From global trade to cyber governance to climate change, foreign policy experts repeatedly commented on how U.S. absence and unpredictability had roiled international waters.
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Now NATO and Russian jets intercept each other over international waters — just as they did when the Cold War held the world on edge.
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The ship carrying 629 people — including seven pregnant women and 123 unaccompanied children — was left drifting in international waters Monday, between Malta and Sicily.
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The ship carrying 629 people — including seven pregnant women and 103 unaccompanied children — was left drifting in international waters Monday, between Malta and Sicily.
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Watch this closely: The American response will probably provide a clue as to whether the drone was in Iranian airspace or over international waters.
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A US Navy P-8A Poseidon was hit by a weapons-grade laser during a routine patrol above international waters on February 13, 2020.
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According to the report, the Russian vessel usually monitors international waters along the east coast annually since 85033 and sometimes also surveils the Caribbean.
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Two nights before the war endedour family cuddled inside a Navy shipslipping in the dark toward international waters,a vapor line upon crossingwe becamerefugees.
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WASHINGTON — China has returned to the U.S. an unmanned underwater drone the Chinese Navy seized unlawfully last week in international waters, the Pentagon said.
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In recent months alone, Iran has seized ships in international waters, fired an unprovoked strike on Saudi Arabia and shot down two U.S. drones.
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In initial reports, this was meant to have happened in international waters, but in 1992, it was established that it was in Iranian waters.
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This month two Russian warplanes flew simulated attack passes near a U.S. destroyer in international waters in the Baltic, according to the U.S. military.
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In recent months alone, Iran has seized ships in international waters, fired an unprovoked strike on Saudi Arabia and shot down two American drones.
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During the encounter, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy fast attack craft approached the USS Firebolt when it was operating in international waters, Davis said.
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A series of ghostly hydrothermal vents thought to harbor clues to the origin of life, it lies in international waters that the ISA governs.
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But the resolution does not permit countries to hail or board North Korean ships in international waters, which the Trump administration proposed in September.
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The U.S. says the unarmed drone was flying over international waters but Iran says it was on a spy mission over its territorial waters.
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The ships -- one carrying oil and the other transporting a cargo of chemicals -- were struck in international waters near the strategically important Strait of Hormuz.
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The Sea-Watch picked up 53 migrants from a rubber boat off the coast of Libya and had remained in international waters since June 12.
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The U.S. Navy conducted a similar mission in the strait's international waters in July, which had been the first such voyage in about a year.
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February 14: A Russian spy ship patrolled off the East Coast near Delaware in international waters — in the midst of a round trip from Cuba.
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Today, only 1 percent of the global seas are protected and there is no legal instrument that allows the creation of sanctuaries on international waters.
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Moscow time to intercept the B-52 flying along Russia's border over the international waters of the Baltic Sea, according to Tass Russian News Agency.
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Law-enforcement officials from America patrol international waters in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, hoping to seize cocaine shipments before they reach their intended destinations.
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A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots at Iranian boats on Sunday in international waters near the Strait of Hormuz, a Pentagon official said Monday.
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In October, when it allegedly transferred petroleum products to a North Korean ship in international waters, the Lighthouse Winmore had its tracking transponder switched off.
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The Russian ship was in international waters at the time and "was not making any dangerous maneuver towards the US ship," according to the statement.
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Lately, the Iranians have preyed on commercial ships navigating in international waters in the area of the Strait of Hormuz — seizing ships and taking crews.
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Meanwhile, Houthis in Yemen continued to step up a campaign to lob missiles at Saudi targets, including an oil tanker in international waters last week.
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The pair are part of a "seasteading" movement that advocates the building of floating communities in international waters beyond the bounds of any national laws.
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"China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters — rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act," he said.
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These are among 5,19783 items recovered from the wreckage of the Titanic, hauled up from two miles below the surface in international waters off Newfoundland.
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He had company: gang members, mobsters and another valuable F.B.I. informant, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, a Somali terrorist captured in international waters near Yemen in 2011.
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Closer look: Mr. Trump has said the aircraft was over international waters when it was destroyed, while Iran said it had strayed into its airspace.
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These are among 5,500 items recovered from the wreckage of the Titanic, hauled up from two miles below the surface in international waters off Newfoundland.
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But the Getty has repeatedly challenged Italy's claims, insisting that the statue was bought in good faith, after it had been retrieved in international waters.
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M.S.F.'s focus is on saving lives, not on policing international waters, and it does not share suspicions about trafficking cases with the European authorities.
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The Russian ship was in international waters at the time and "was not making any dangerous maneuver towards the US ship," according to a statement.
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For days, news reports have noted the presence of a Russian naval ship lurking in international waters off the East Coast of the United States.
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The toll was expected to increase as the flimsy boats used to carry migrants as far as international waters normally carry more than 100 people.
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But the fact that the Rye Song Gang 1 has been continually caught violating international law, in international waters, also highlights flaws in sanctions enforcement.
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Hence, President Obama's Pentagon accommodated China's growing SCS military presence on its man-made islands, which encroach on international law as well as international waters.
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To reinforce the region's status as international waters, the US Navy regularly runs "freedom of navigation" operations through Chinese-controlled waters, infuriating authorities in Beijing.
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A year ago the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague ruled that Slovenia should have "uninterrupted access" to the international waters in the Adriatic Sea.
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A Spanish rescue ship has set sail for international waters, carrying four European parliamentarians as EU nations bicker over managing migrant flows across the Mediterranean Sea.
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The German NGO Mission Lifeline says it has 234 migrants aboard its vessel and is adrift in international waters waiting for a safe port to dock.
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Amanda Azubuike, a South Command spokeswoman, said a U.S. Coast Guard vessel was conducting a drug interdiction mission in the international waters of the Caribbean Sea.
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Yang said China had grave concerns and lodged a protest over the behaviour of the Japanese aircraft during what he called "routine" drills in international waters.
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"Just being there in the South China Sea shows that we believe we have the right to operate in international waters," said Rear Admiral Ronald Boxall.
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As a result, a group called the International Seabed Authority (ISA) is responsible for delineating deep sea mining zones and doling out permits in international waters.
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"China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented act," Trump initially tweeted.
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The Defense Ministry said two Tu-95 bombers flew Thursday over international waters during a 10-hour mission that was part of the Ocean Shield exercise.
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Early meetings were dominated by North Korean demands for an official apology and American insistences the Pueblo was in international waters and had done nothing wrong.
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The United States, for its part, considers the sea to be international waters and sends bombers and warships through every so often to make that point.
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On Thursday, Mr. Trump insisted that the United States' unmanned surveillance aircraft was flying over international waters when it was taken down by an Iranian missile.
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A separate Marine CH-53 helicopter was damaged late Tuesday while participating in the Alligator Dagger training exercise in international waters off the coast of Djibouti.
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For the betting site, MoneyMatches, it would a chance to have a live gambling-friendly esports event, thanks to the legal freedom afforded by international waters.
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The Sea-Watch 3 picked up 53 migrants from a rubber boat off the coast of Libya and had remained in international waters since June 12.
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Taiwan's defense ministry said it was a normal transit through international waters in the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan forces had monitored the passage of the ships.
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The ship was taking part in an exercise with American and other coalition vessels in international waters when it was approached by the Iranian patrol boat.
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Ms. Hua accused the Americans of asserting their own domination with those patrols, which American officials said were intended to demonstrate freedom of navigation in international waters.
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But the Nord Stream consortium is looking at another route through international waters just north of Denmark that would mean the project could proceed despite any ban.
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Some 712 migrants were picked up Thursday on top of 2,400 the two previous days, all grouped in small, flimsy rubber dinghies in international waters near Libya.
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Smugglers often pack migrants in flimsy inflatable dinghies, dispatching them to sea to get picked up by rescue ships and other vessels once they reach international waters.
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Taiwan's Defense Ministry said it was a normal transit through international waters in the Taiwan Strait and that Taiwanese forces had monitored the passage of the ships.
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She explained that Japan, however, was the only country to whale in international waters of the Southern Ocean, which was declared a sanctuary for whales in 1994.
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Combined Maritime Forces Australia is part of a multinational naval partnership, the Combined Maritime Forces, that helps police more than three million square miles of international waters.
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China routinely ignores international law as it militarizes artificial islands it built in international waters in the South China Sea, and it has frequently threatened US ships.
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"It's international waters, and a lot of nations want to see freedom of navigation," Mattis told reporters Tuesday while en route to the change of command ceremony.
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As long as Libya is in chaos, there is no way to prevent crowded dinghies from reaching international waters, where most people who aren't rescued will drown.
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U.S. economic interests are closely linked to the maintenance of exclusive economic zones (EEZs) for resource extraction, and to regional freedom of navigation in Arctic international waters.
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The US Treasury Department released satellite imagery in November of two ships allegedly performing an illegal ship-to-ship transfer in international waters on the same day.
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"China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters — rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act," he said via Twitter.
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Russell was one of 83 Americans held captive inside North Korea, following the seizure of the USS Pueblo spy ship in international waters, on January 23, 1968.
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The U.S. Navy says it conducts such freedom of navigation operations in international waters around the world, even in seas claimed by its allies, without political considerations.
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They have included declarations that the North might conduct an atmospheric nuclear test and that it had the right to shoot down American warplanes in international waters.
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The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group is conducting operations in US 6th Fleet to support maritime security operations in international waters alongside our allies and partners.
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"And I hope this doesn't give the Chinese the impression that this is a tacit acknowledgment of Beijing's outrageous claims of sovereignty over international waters," he said.
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"This vessel was in international waters for the entirety of a transit, so it is not a violation of American sovereignty in any way," Captain Tucci said.
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Officers in the Libyan Coast Guard, they were trained by the Italians to intercept and rescue migrant boats near the Libyan coast before they reach international waters.
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The audacious seizure, in international waters in the South China Sea, was also seen as a taunt to President-elect Donald J. Trump's hard line on Beijing.
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Proactiva spokeswoman Laura Lanuza said the group's vessel had been in international waters, 27 miles (43 km) off the Libyan coast, carrying out search and rescue operations.
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The discovery came a day after President Trump accused China of letting fuel oil flow into North Korea through illicit ship-to-ship transfers on international waters.
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Instead, it transferred the refined oil to four other ships in international waters, including 22 tons transferred to the North Korean ship Sam Jong 21 on Oct.
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Unlike Turkey, Libya is still seen as too dangerous for Europeans to send migrants back, so those who make it into international waters usually end up in Italy.
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Malta meanwhile has refused port to German aid group Mission Lifeline, which says it is carrying 234 migrants aboard its vessel and is currently adrift in international waters.
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These minerals are taken from the seabed and so allow for the bartering of mining rights in supposedly international waters, effectively colonizing mare liberum right under our noses.
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Sayyari said the U.S. navy was allowed to sail in international waters near Iran, just as the Iranian navy could sail in the Atlantic Ocean near U.S. waters.
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Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Twitter the migrants on Ocean Viking would be picked up in international waters and then transferred onshore by Maltese military boats.
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Then VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi reports from a weapons storage ship sailing through lawless international waters and meets the private military contractors protecting global commerce against pirates.
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Frustrated by the real world and how it operates, Thiel has invested in the Seasteading Institute, an organization dedicated to setting up a lawless utopia in international waters.
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A lack of governance has also hurt efforts to mine in international waters while national governments have become increasingly alarmed over fears of potential pollution from the mining.
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There were several US Navy ships in the immediate vicinity at the time of the incident conducting routine patrol operations in international waters, according to the defense officials.
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Many of those who make it into international waters are picked up by European rescue ships, while Libyan authorities say they have turned back more than 11,000 migrants.
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"Anybody who takes action, fires against U.S. Navy ships operating in international waters, does so at their own peril," Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told a news briefing.
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Three Iranian gunboats harassed a British oil tanker, and attempted to force it to steer out of international waters into Iranian territory on Wednesday, the UK government said.
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In the past week, more than 7,000 migrants have been plucked from boats in international waters off the western coast of Libya, where people smugglers operate with impunity.
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According to the South Korean coast guard, the Chinese ships were one nautical mile within the fisheries agreement line, and were ordered to retreat back to international waters.
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What We Know About Iran Shooting Down a U.S. Drone: The two countries disagree about where the drone was shot down: over international waters or in Iranian airspace.
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It would be fatal to trade any of them — commitments to allies, freedom of navigation through international waters, democratic principles — even for promises of cooperation on North Korea.
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"You will get a table at the window and avoid the drunkards and loud teenagers," he said, explaining that the drinking age changes to 152 in international waters.
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On the evening of July 11, 1967, a Navy surveillance aircraft spotted a big trawler in international waters off the coast of South Vietnam, east of Cap Batangan.
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Both the Harrier and the CH-53 that was damaged late Tuesday were participating in Alligator Dagger, a training exercise in international waters off the coast of Djibouti.
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The seizure, in international waters, had prompted tense exchanges between Mr. Trump and China's media, which sees the American presence in the South China Sea as a provocation.
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The USS Forrest Sherman stopped and boarded the ship on November 25 in international waters because it did not appear to be properly registered, according to the officials.
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The Iranians claim it was shot down in their territorial waters; the U.S. countered that it was destroyed in international waters, an assessment that Trump repeated Friday morning.
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The Pentagon said the United States would continue to investigate the "unlawful" seizure, which took place in international waters about 50 miles northwest of Subic Bay in the Philippines.
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"This decision makes clear that ships in international waters cannot be forcibly boarded and those aboard arrested at a whim," Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said in a statement.
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Russian jet makes unsafe intercept of US jet He said the guided missile destroyer was sailing in international waters after having completed joint military exercises with NATO ally Romania.
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The leader of Malta says his island nation is working to solve the case of a German-run rescue ship stuck in international waters with 234 migrants on board.
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The USNS Bowditch, which is not a combat ship, was stopped in international waters Thursday afternoon and recovering two of the gliders when the Chinese ship approached, Davis said.
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"China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters – rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act," read Trump's first tweet on Saturday.
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The approved navigation path would have had them sail in international waters between the Iranian coastline and the eastern side of Farsi Island as they moved south toward Bahrain.
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Italy fears the NGOs are facilitating people smuggling by hovering close to Libya, waiting for the migrant boats to cross into international waters where they can be picked up.
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The countries that dominate fishing in international waters (see chart 2) would never stomach such a ban; they prefer the often inadequate regulation offered by regional fisheries-management organisations.
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Archaeologists, art historians, and museums alike are paying close attention to what the "Getty Bronze" case may mean for objects dredged from international waters in the Mediterranean and elsewhere.
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According to Ocean Builders, the startup behind the project, the structure was allegedly located in international waters, 12 miles off the coast but still within Thailand's exclusive economic zone.
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Late on Tuesday, a U.S. defense official said plans were in place for Iran to return the sailors to a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters early on Wednesday.
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Malta said migrants would be transferred to a patrol boat in international waters and taken to the island, which will then send them to four other European Union states.
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The newspaper noted that the drone was captured not only in international waters but also beyond the marker China uses to delineate its claims in the South China Sea.
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He said France believed the U.S. drone was over international waters when it was shot down, "so that was an aggression which was one more step in this escalation".
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In addition, it&aposs also planning to furnish the Libyan coast guard with 12 additional patrol boats in an effort to prevent smugglers&apos boats from reaching international waters.
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Dave Holmes is a writer, actor, and former MTV VJ. He writes for Esquire and hosts the podcast International Waters and the Friday Forty live show at Meltdown Comics.
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In that instance, North Korea sent a diesel-powered Romeo-class sub around 100 kilometers (62 miles) out to sea in international waters -- farther than it had ever traveled.
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" In a scene from The Martian, Damon's character, an astronaut stranded on the titular planet, concludes that since Mars counts as "international waters," he is the first "space pirate.
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The U.S. says the unarmed drone was flying over international waters in the Strait of Hormuz but Iran says it was on a spy mission over its territorial waters.
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The approved navigation path would have had them sail in international waters between the Iranian coastline and the eastern side of Farsi Island as they moved south toward Bahrain.
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"China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act," he wrote in the corrected tweet.
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It then met up in international waters with a North Korean vessel to which it transferred its cargo of fuel, the two crew members who witnessed the transfers said.
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One month ago, at least one B1-B and an escort of F-35 fighters flew over international waters north of the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
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Another 2 million-barrel cargo of fuel oil bound for China in November was postponed because of stained crude tankers, which cannot navigate international waters due to environmental regulations.
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Nord Stream 2, a project led by state gas producer Gazprom, said second and third applications for routes north-west and south-east of Bornholm international waters remain unchanged.
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Arkdia repurposed an old Peter Thiel-backed start-up called Blueseed, which operated vessels in international waters off NYC and SF as hubs for non-pure "innovators and disruptors".
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The crew of the ship operated by Mission Lifeline, a charity based in Dresden, Germany, had spotted migrants in two overcrowded rubber boats in international waters early on Thursday.
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It has been at sea for two weeks, awaiting instructions for a safe harbor at which to disembark the migrants, which it picked up in international waters off Libya.
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Trump may also shoot down a North Korean missile over international waters; that's less provocative than a strike on North Korean territory, but I'd still expect a military response.
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In 2016, under the Southern Command's strategy, the Coast Guard, with intermittent help from the U.S. Navy and international partners, detained 585 suspected drug smugglers, mostly in international waters.
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The disturbing stories of "global oceanic pillage" compiled in this record of life on the high seas demonstrate the often dire results of the failure to police international waters.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Stena Impero, the British-flagged oil tanker seized by Iran, has reached international waters on route to Dubai, the Swedish owner of the tanker said on Friday.
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It&aposs not immediately clear where the Chinese vessel is located, but officials say it&aposs in international waters (more than 12 nautical miles away), and not impacting the exercises.
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Liz Karan, senior manager for the high seas at Pew Charitable Trusts, a non-profit organization, said existing regulations were patchy and had struggled to protect ecosystems in international waters.
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"China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters — rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act," Trump said in an early-morning tweet.
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The 11-point plan is expected to be presented in the coming days to some nine NGOs who regularly deploy rescue boats to international waters just off the Libyan coast.
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"This is shameful," said Jay Berger, project coordinator for MSF, speaking by satellite phone from the Ocean Viking, in international waters between Malta and the southern Italian island of Linosa.
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More direct help for the Saudis and Emiratis in Yemen is likely, as is aggressive patrolling of international waters to stop supplies of weapons from Iran getting to the Houthis.
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The migrants were transferred onto a Coast Guard ship in international waters and taken to Lampedusa, the island south of Sicily where tens of thousands have arrived in recent years.
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When China seized a US underwater drone in international waters this week, the President-elect responded forcefully on Twitter, including making suggestions to the current administration on how to proceed.
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In addition, the tribunal established a 2.5 nautical mile-wide and some 10 nautical mile-long corridor through Croatian waters to give Slovenia much-coveted direct access to international waters.
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The official said the plan is to meet the sailors in international waters after dawn, but did not say whether the two boats would be returned with the service members.
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Some make it to international waters where they hope to be picked up by international vessels, but increasing numbers are intercepted by Libya's EU-backed coastguard and returned to Libya.
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Several U.S. bombers and fighter jet escorts flew in international waters off North Korea's coast on Saturday as a display of "resolve" against the nation's "reckless" behavior, the Pentagon announced.
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During their second night at sea, the pair found a buoy and thought it would save them, but they were picked up by an East German warship in international waters.
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With the claimed "military alert zone" having no basis in international law or military practice, foreign naval officials routinely stress they are in international waters and continue on their way.
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But the broad midsection of the 110-mile-wide strait is international waters, and U.S. policy has long insisted on a legal right to sail unrestricted on the high seas.
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It is an idea at once audacious and simplistic, a seeming impossibility that is now technologically within reach: cities floating in international waters — independent, self-sustaining nation-states at sea.
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"This drone was in international waters, clearly," the president told reporters on Thursday afternoon at the White House as he began a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada.
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It also did not win authorization to use military force, if needed, to inspect North Korean ships in international waters for arms and other items prohibited by the United Nations.
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These fishermen-turned-smugglers are caught in international waters, or in foreign seas, and often have little or no understanding of where the drugs aboard their boats are ultimately bound.
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Another important front in the new multidimensional U.S.-China cold war is the South China Sea, where Beijing has asserted an outlandish claim to the entire body of international waters.
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A hint of the tough diplomacy that lies ahead came last year over the creation of the world's largest marine protected area in the international waters of the Ross Sea.
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The ship sailed along the east coast of the United States in February and March of last year, lingering in international waters just off the coast of US naval installations.
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Multiple missiles were fired at the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mason on Saturday while it was in international waters off the coast of Yemen, U.S. officials said, according to reports.
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That follows the release of similar images by the US Treasury Department on October 19, showing the Rye Song Gang 1 allegedly conducting an illicit transfer while in international waters.
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The two boats are sailing in international waters with the support of the Italian coast guard, which earlier on Thursday confirmed the recovery of the five corpses, according to Reuters.
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Under international law, if an NGO like ours, Proactiva Open Arms, finds refugees in international waters, it must transport them to the nearest safe port, which used to be Italy.
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Migrants who reach international waters are brought to Italy because Libya is not considered safe for refugees, and returning them there would be a violation of international non-refoulement law.
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He also said Turkey would procure a new drilling ship to continue activities in the eastern Mediterranean, adding that Ankara could expand operations to the Black Sea or international waters.
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Groups of countries have negotiated specific regulations for sections of international waters, like rules governing tuna fishing in the Pacific or fish stocks in the Atlantic between Greenland and Europe.
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In addition, the tribunal established a 2.5 nautical-mile wide and some 10 nautical-mile long corridor through Croatian waters to give Slovenia much-coveted direct access to international waters.
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Having changed his name and moved to Los Angeles in 1924, he ran shipboard casinos that got around gambling and drinking restrictions by ferrying their glamorous clientele out to international waters.
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"China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act," said the US President-elect in one tweet.
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SINGAPORE – India&aposs Prime Minister Narendra Modi has renewed calls for a maritime agreement that would make international waters more secure amid increasingly tense territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
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A U.S. Navy underwater drone operating in international waters was captured by a Chinese warship in the South China Sea, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement on Friday.
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The shooting down of the drone — Iran claims over its territory while the US says it was over international waters — is a dangerous uptick but will not in itself cause war.
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Baluchi wrote on his website Wednesday that he had secured a support boat to lead him into international waters and that he intended to depart from Pompano Beach, Florida, on Friday.
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But such calls would require stretched NATO governments to beef up the so-called air policing mission that regularly intercepts Russian jets flying over international waters close to the Baltic states.
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Because the vessels are anchored in international waters, UNVIM can only coordinate with regional parties, including the coalition, to facilitate vessels' access to the ports, the U.N. said in its statement.
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At one point two Chinese fighter jets made a low-level pass within 300 meters (yards) of one of the two ships when it was in international waters, the ministry said.
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U.S. officials said the drone was flying over international waters in the Strait of Hormuz — the world's busiest transit lane for seaborne oil shipments — but Iran claims it entered its airspace.
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Because these are in international waters, the International Seabed Authority (ISA), a tiny U.N.-affiliated body with offices in Jamaica, is tasked with issuing licenses to explore these and other areas.
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The Stena Impero was first "approached by unidentified small crafts and a helicopter during transit of the Strait of Hormuz while the vessel was in international waters" at approximately 4 p.m.
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North Korea was taking advantage of operating in international waters, using flags from countries like Panama, Sierra Leone or Tanzania that do not monitor vessels sailing under their flags, said Griffiths.
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"We oppose China's artificial island construction and their militarization of features in international waters," Tillerson said while appearing in Sydney, Australia Monday alongside Mattis and the Australian foreign and defense ministers.
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Russia had originally declined to take part in arbitration, arguing that it was acting within its sovereign rights to seize the ship in international waters where Russia enjoys exclusive economic rights.
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The Sanchi's $60 million cargo of ultra-light crude oil spilled into the ocean and caught fire after the collision in international waters some 160 nautical miles (300 km) off China.
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Separately, Iran is preparing to send a flotilla of warships first to Oman and then later to international waters north of the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden, Tasnim reported.
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According to the UK government, the vessels ordered the British Heritage tanker to change course, leaving the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz in order to enter Iranian waters instead.
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China now regularly responds with fury to US Navy ships transiting the international waters of the South China Sea, and military officials have threatened to sink US aircraft carriers multiple times.
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The incident is less important for its immediate consequences than for the message it sends to China, which seeks to turn the South China Sea's international waters into a territorial possession.
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Malaysia's National Police Chief Mohamad Fuzi Harun announced in a statement on Saturday that authorities had stopped a "modified" tanker on May 1 that was on its way to international waters.
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China's first domestically built aircraft carrier is the latest sign that the world's second-largest economy is developing a unified carrier program to secure its interests in nearby and international waters.
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"They're having to rendezvous with foreign vessels in international waters to sell their catches on the high sea so it can be relabeled (as from Japan or South Korea)," he said.
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"We routinely conduct operations to advance security and stability throughout the US 6th Fleet area of operations to include the international waters and airspace of the Black Sea," Raines told CNN.
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USS Champlain In May, a South Korean fishing boat struck the USS Lake Champlain, while the Navy warship was conducting operations in international waters near the Korean Peninsula, the Navy said.
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In the weeks since Mr. Trump's election, Beijing has increased pressure on the United States, placing weapons on disputed islands and seizing an underwater United States Navy drone from international waters.
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And yet, creating permanent floating homes at sea is not an isolated case: It's been hyped by the Seasteading Institute, which advocates for "seasteads"—politically autonomous human settlements in international waters.
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Japanese scientific vessels, financed by the country's taxpayers, prowled international waters in search of the animals, sailing into the northern Pacific and Antarctic in search of minke, sei and Bryde's whales.
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It was not known if the drone was armed, but a Pentagon spokesman, Jonathan Hoffman, said that it had "closed within a threatening range" before being shot down over international waters.
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It was not known if the drone was armed, but a Pentagon spokesman, Jonathan Hoffman, said that it had "closed within a threatening range" before being shot down over international waters.
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The Golfo Azzurro then stayed in international waters off Sicily until Wednesday, when it had a mechanical problem and Italy's coastguard gave the ship permission to enter the port of Pozzallo.
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The ship was operating legally in international waters and did not pose security concerns, but it is rare for China for operate such a vessel in that area, the report said.
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He said the company had a well-prepared security plan for the vessel once it left Iranian waters, adding that it was expected to reach international waters at about 1000 GMT.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - An international arbitration court on Thursday handed Slovenia victory in a long-standing maritime dispute with Croatia, granting it direct access to international waters in the Adriatic Sea.
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The Aquarius, run by Franco-German charity SOS Mediterranee and Doctors without Borders (MSF), picked up the people in two separate operations and is in international waters between Italy and Malta.
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For example, he had recently provided $500,000 in seed money for the Seasteading Institute, a nonprofit organization that was researching how to build new, independent city-states floating in international waters.
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Russia declined to take part in arbitration, arguing that it was acting within its sovereign rights to seize the ship in an area of international waters where Russia enjoys exclusive economic rights.
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Mining international waters is in the spotlight as companies and countries are looking at minerals concentrated on the ocean floor that can be used in batteries for smart phones and electric vehicles.
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The Lifeline has been stranded in international waters some 25 miles from the coast of Malta for days, after both Italy and Malta refused to allow it to dock in their ports.
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The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the incident took place when a Navy MH-60 helicopter flew within half a mile (0.8 km) of two Iranian vessels in international waters.
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The United States says it conducts such patrols across the world in an effort to demonstrate that the international community does not accept restrictions set up by some countries in international waters.
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Though still over international waters, the flight was further north of the DMZ than any US military flight has gone in the since the end of the 20th century, the Pentagon said.
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The Italians argued that according to the Italian Navigation Code, because the fishing boat was Italian, the objects netted by it — even while in international waters — were by extension owned by Italy.
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The Pentagon insisted that it was operating in international waters — pointing out that the mothership was literally in sight at the time the Chinese grabbed the drone — and immediately demanded its return.
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"This was a defensive action by the USS Boxer in response to aggressive interactions by two Iranian UAS platforms in international waters," Lieutenant Colonel Earl Brown, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, said.
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The statement from the two companies said their ship was first approached at "by unidentified small crafts and a helicopter" in the Strait of Hormuz in international waters at about 4 p.m.
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Beijing claims possession of the disputed region, which serves as a channel for half of the world's shipping and which the rest of the world, including the United States, considers international waters.
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On January 23, 1968, the crew of the USS Pueblo was roughly 15 nautical miles east of the North Korean coast in international waters, according to a declassified National Security Agency report.
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"They tried to raise them (the Russian aircraft) on the radio but they did not answer," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity, adding the U.S. ship was in international waters.
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The incident happened in international waters as the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier transited the Strait of Hormuz to get to the Persian Gulf, according to the reports that cited unnamed defense officials.
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"We have registered our objection to China's unlawful seizure of a U.S. unmanned underwater vehicle operating in international waters in the South China Sea," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement.
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Speaking to reporters during a flight to Hawaii, Mattis said the South China Sea was international waters and "a lot of nations" wanted to see freedom of navigation maintained in the area.
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By now, Chinese companies have three of the 27 licences so far awarded by the International Seabed Authority, and China controls more mining exploration areas in international waters than any other country.
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On Sunday evening, the United States destroyer Mason, while conducting routine operations in international waters, detected two missiles fired at the ship in under an hour, according to a statement from Capt.
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The air force said in a statement that fighter and bomber aircraft flew through the Tsushima Strait that separates South Korea from Japan and into international waters in the Sea of Japan.
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China's emplacement of those missiles gives Beijing "the potential to exert national control over international waters and airspace through which over three trillion dollars in goods travel every year," US Navy Adm.
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The boat docked at the same quay where a week ago another NGO vessel collided with an Italian police boat after deciding to let migrants disembark after two weeks in international waters.
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Significantly, the Chinese grabbed the drone not only in international waters but outside even the "nine-dash line" that China uses as a marker for its claims in the South China Sea.
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PACFLEET accused the Chinese warship of violating international rules and regulations, including agreements on conduct at sea, by targeting the aircraft, which was operating in airspace above international waters, with a laser.
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The revelation that Neumann may have transported marijuana across international waters, as reported in The Wall Street Journal, also has contributed to Son moving against Neumann in recent days, said the people.
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The Hill's Kristina Wong has the story: A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots at Iranian boats on Sunday in international waters near the Strait of Hormuz, a Pentagon official said Monday.
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Financial markets briefly turned "risk-off" in late U.S. trade on Friday following news that a Chinese Navy warship had seized a U.S. underwater drone in international waters in the South China Sea.
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Rackete had been in international waters for more than two weeks, waiting for an invitation from Italy or another European Union (EU) state to accept her ship, which was carrying 41 African migrants.
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The Libyan coastguard currently lacks the personnel and equipment to patrol more than 1,000 miles of coastline and the EU's Sophia mission can only operate in international waters, 12 nautical miles from land.
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Next summer could bring its own set of disputes if Britain goes through with its plan to exit the European Union, which currently grants them access to the international waters in the Channel.
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"Two strategic bombers Tupolev-95MS of Russia's Aerospace Force have carried out routine flights over international waters of the Sea of Japan and the western part of the Pacific Ocean," Russian officials said.
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Up to 200 nautical miles off the coast is the exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which is sort of international waters but only that country has the rights to harvest the natural resources there.
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In an election cycle shaped by the slow economic recovery, specter of international terrorism, and the refugee crisis, it's comforting to imagine that America could simply retreat from the turbulence of international waters.
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One thing we haven&apost talked about and that is the Chinese are challenging us in the global commons, trying to prevent us from flying through international airspace and sailing through international waters.
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Recent months have seen a number of similar Cold War-style incidents at sea and in the air, with each country's military accusing the other of dangerous approaches in international waters and airspace.
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In 2016, Indonesia assisted Interpol in the landmark capture of a giant Chinese-flagged vessel that had evaded Argentina's navy and fled into international waters after it was suspected of illegal fishing there.
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The Phoenix rescue ship, operated by the Malta-based non-governmental organization MOAS, rescued more than 300 people from three boats in international waters off the coast of the Libyan city of Sabratha.
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"Sea Stories" is exactly what the title suggests, an impressionistic ramble through international waters that also manages to find time for life advice and stoned games of GoldenEye 007 on a Nintendo 64.
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Consider Trump's tweets after China seized a U.S. underwater drone: China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act.
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A senior Iranian military official said last month that the navy could sail in the Atlantic near U.S. waters since U.S. aircraft carriers were allowed to move around in international waters near Iran.
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The European Union, which has five ships patrolling international waters near Libya, eventually aims to have 500 Libyans trained to catch people and arms traffickers off the shores of the North African country.
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The new European request would allow the existing naval effort, known as Operation Sophia, to expand its mandate in international waters, from intercepting migrant boats leaving Libyan territory to intercepting weapons heading in.
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The Getty has long argued that the statue was probably created outside Italy and was discovered in international waters after thousands of years, so it is not an Italian object subject to repatriation.
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The judge declared that Spain had no jurisdiction in the case because the alleged crime was said to have taken place in international waters, according to a report by the Spanish newspaper Levante.
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The cruise industry disproportionately counts Americans as customers but operates primarily in international waters and avoids tough scrutiny by registering ships mostly in small Caribbean countries with little incentive to enforce international treaties.
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The United States has played its traditional role since World War II, ensuring freedom of the seas by conducting Freedom of Navigation Operations through international waters adjoining islands Beijing claims as its own.
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The ceremony was performed by a ship's captain at sea but was probably illegal because the ship was not in international waters, and Ms. Gabor was technically not yet divorced from Mr. O'Hara.
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Shamsa, then 18, was snatched from the streets of Cambridge in England in 2000 while her younger sister Latifa was abducted from a boat in international waters off India in 2018, McFarlane ruled.
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After 14 days stranded in international waters the captain, Carola Rackete, said she had decided to head to the Italian coast because she felt maritime emergency law permitted the ship to do so.
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The Sun Cruz shuttle boat makes several trips daily from the city of Port Richey to a casino boat about three and a half miles offshore, in international waters where gambling is legal.
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"We are aware of what's going on, and we remain ready to protect ourselves as we pursue our objectives of freedom of navigation and the freedom of commerce in international waters," Votel said.
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And Seattle's plastic ban is a step in the right direction, though in international waters, what's needed is a large-scale international mobilization to curb plastic pollution across borders, according to many experts.
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The smugglers responsible for the journey sent another boat with a crew, but instead of pulling the struggling vessel back to shore where the engine could be fixed, they tugged it into international waters.
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The strike group had been on a regular deployment to support maritime security operations in international waters in the Adriatic Sea before receiving the new orders Sunday to redeploy, two US officials told CNN.
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There was even a protest in Antarctica -- about 22013 eco-minded tourists and non-government scientists aboard a ship in international waters hoisted signs saying "Penguins for peace" and "Seals for science," organizers said.
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Now that Japan has withdrawn from the IWC, whalers will no longer hunt in international waters but will pursue them in an economic exclusion zone, which extends 200 nautical miles from the Japanese coast.
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In the latest development on the seizure, a U.S. defense official said plans were in place for Iran to return the 2145 sailors to a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters early on Wednesday.
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One possibility is that the US learned that Iranian leadership never actually ordered that the US drone — which Tehran says was in Iranian airspace and Washington says was over international waters — be shot down.
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"In 14 weeks we can train the first 100 men in international waters by turning one of our ships into a school," Admiral Enrico Credendino said in an interview with Italy's la Repubblica newspaper.
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An Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967 prohibits governments from asserting claims over extraterrestrial land and resources, but says they retain jurisdiction over their own crafts (in the manner of ships in international waters).
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In response, countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) began "enhanced security patrols" in the international waters of the Arabian Gulf area on Saturday, the U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet said on Sunday.
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The International Seabed Authority, which is responsible for doling out exploration permits in international waters, is developing management plans that establish 'Areas of Particular Environmental Interest', where mining and its impacts are not permitted.
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The John S. McCain was on its way to Singapore after a "freedom of navigation" mission during which it had sailed through international waters near a reef where China has created an artificial island.
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A German charity ship, Sea-Watch 3, waited more than two weeks in international waters before forcing its way into the Italian port of Lampedusa last weekend, triggering political recriminations and a legal battle.
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Such moves could trigger more U.S. "freedom of navigation" patrols -- flying warplanes or sailing warships within 12 miles of the islands and reefs China controls to demonstrate that it believes they are international waters.
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OSLO (Reuters) - The Norwegian military has released pictures taken by surveillance aircraft of a fleet of Russian warships sailing in international waters off the coast of Norway and reported to be heading to Syria.
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The Obama administration had publicized the US Navy's South China Sea ship transits, known as "Freedom of Navigation Operations," to ensure Beijing was seen as not willing to acknowledge the area as international waters.
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According to intelligence gathered by US assets, the tanker was radioed by IRGC forces as it was traveling in the Strait of Hormuz in international waters and purportedly told to move into Iranian waters.
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"From the beginning, the government has worked to ensure the boat, which is in international waters, goes to a safe and nearby port," Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo said in a statement on Sunday.
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The Seaman Guard Ohio was a "floating armoury", a ship that loiters semi-permanently in international waters, acting as a hotel and base for private security guards hired to protect ships from Somali pirates.
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Both Iran and the US confirm that it happened, though they disagree about the location of the aircraft — the US says it was flying above international waters; Iran claims it was in Iranian airspace.
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Washington (CNN)A US guided-missile cruiser was struck by a South Korean fishing boat on Tuesday while the Navy warship was conducting operations in international waters near the Korean Peninsula, the Navy said.
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In the latest development on the seizure, a U.S. defense official said plans were in place for Iran to return the 10 sailors to a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters early on Wednesday.
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Britain's foreign secretary on Saturday warned Iran that it is taking a "dangerous" and "illegal" path after the seizure of two British-linked tanker ships in international waters in the Strait of Hormuz Friday.
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Xi's visit follows a strong push back against Chinese moves in the South China Sea by Washington, which has stepped up naval operations, warning China it views the widely-disputed territory as international waters.
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The campaign's goal is to deescalate tensions in international waters, specifically focusing on the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait (BAM) and the Gulf of Oman, the Defense Department said.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) began "enhanced security patrols" in the international waters of the Arabian Gulf area on Saturday, the U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet said on Sunday.
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Chris Purcell, who leads Patrol Squadron Four which undertook Friday's mission, said the US has been doing these flights for five decades and they show US commitment to maintaining free passage in international waters.
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Captain Carola Rackete, 31, who spent two weeks in international waters with dozens of rescued African migrants, was arrested on Saturday when her NGO ship docked at the island port of Lampedusa without permission.
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As tensions have increased over trade and other issues, the United States and other nations have intensified naval and aerial patrols in the sea to signal that the territories there remain in international waters.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Thirteen Chinese fishermen died after their boat collided with a Hong Kong oil tanker in international waters off Japan, state media Xinhua reported on Friday, citing sources at China's consulate in Osaka.
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She is Carola Rackete, she is 31, and she is the captain of Sea Watch 3, a German N.G.O.-operated ship that on June 12 rescued 53 desperate migrants in international waters off Libya.
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Redrawing the Durand Line and merging the territory into Afghanistan would give the country access to international waters, providing a win from a logistical and economic perspective for the United States, NATO and Afghanistan.
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WeWork has had its own slew of headlines, following a tumultuous week in which WeWork postponed its IPO roadshow and The Wall Street Journal reported that Neumann may have transported marijuana across international waters.
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Robert Redford and Paul Allen are the executive producers of this new series, which follows activists, scientists and journalists as they battle poachers and organized crime in international waters, where transgressions are seldom punished.
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While Russia, the United States and three other countries with Arctic coastline control the exclusive economic zones near their shores, overfishing in the international waters at the central Arctic Ocean could collapse fish stocks.
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US Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton unloads about 18.5 tons of cocaine — worth $498 million — seized in 20 separate incidents in international waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean, at Port Everglades, Florida on May 18.
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According to Ocean Builders, the concept of seasteading has been discussed for years but the cabin Elwartowski and Supranee lived on was the first attempt at living in what it described as international waters.
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The U.S. Navy frequently sends ships within close distance of Chinese-held territory in the sea in what it calls displays of support for the right of freedom of navigation in international waters, angering Beijing.
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"This will significantly hinder the Kim regime's capacity to conduct evasive maritime activities that facilitate illicit coal and fuel transports, and erode its abilities to ship goods through international waters," said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
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The U.S. Navy conducted a similar mission in the strait's international waters in July and any repeat would be seen in self-ruled Taiwan as a fresh expression of support by President Donald Trump's government.
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Mattis said the US Navy would continue to exercises freedom of navigation rights -- where US warships sail through international waters -- in the South China Sea, there was no need for increased US military maneuvers there.
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Amanda researched the practice of "posthumous marriage" and found out marrying someone after their death is legal in France, among other countries, though not in the UK. They were married at sea in international waters.
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Authorities said Friday that the Lighthouse Winmore had transferred 600 tons of refined petroleum to a North Korean vessel in October in a ship-to-ship transfer in international waters in the East China Sea.
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The ship, which had been stranded in international waters between Malta and the southern Italian island of Linosa, had been denied entry by Malta while requests to Italy had gone unanswered, the charities previously said.
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At a hastily organised Pentagon press briefing, an hour before the planned start of a televised presidential debate on October 9th, a senior naval officer said that the McCampbell had never strayed from international waters.
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The US warship was in international waters more than 0003 nautical miles (22 km) offshore, in the southern end of the Red Sea, north of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, according to a defense official.
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"This operation challenged attempts by the three claimants - China, Taiwan and Vietnam - to restrict navigation rights and freedoms," Davis said, reflecting the U.S. position that the crucial sea lane should be treated as international waters.
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In January 2016 an Iranian drone flew over the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and the USS Harry S. Truman, both of which were operating in international waters in the Gulf at the time.
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The boats had drifted off course, but one was also suffering engine trouble, making it impossible for the Americans to back off rapidly and return to international waters when armed Iranian naval boats approached them.
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The US is observing the sub via reconnaissance imagery and the officials said the submarine's patrol had taken it farther that it has ever gone, sailing some 100 kilometers out to sea in international waters.
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The same month, Australian warships en route to Vietnam were challenged by the Chinese navy as they traversed the South China Sea, leading Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to assert Australia's right to travel international waters.
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A Russian Ministry of Defense statement in a TASS report also said that a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet intercepted a Norwegian P-3C Orion aircraft on Tuesday in international waters over the Barents Sea.
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The exercises, which the US also conducts in other parts of the world, assert the navy's right to travel wherever it pleases in international waters, a vital component of Washington's naval power across the world.
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The South Korean Foreign Ministry said the Lighthouse Winmore left the port of Yeosu in South Korea carrying refined oil which was then transferred to a North Korean ship in international waters on October 19.
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The revelers set it up at low tide, and dragged out a picnic table and a cooler so they could get blasted out on "international waters," see some fireworks, and stay away from the cops.
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Most had little to do as the spy ship's instruments listened in on North Korean communications from international waters, taking special care not to cross the 19-kilometer (29 mile) maritime border claimed by Pyongyang.
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The U.S. Navy conducted a similar mission in the strait's international waters in July and any repeat would be seen in self-ruled Taiwan as a fresh expression of support by President Donald Trump's government.
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Police in Catania, Sicily, said in a statement on Tuesday they had detained 2660 men who were rescued in international waters along with hundreds of migrants and brought to the port city on May 22.
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Police in Catania, Sicily, said in a statement on Tuesday they had detained 2115 men who were rescued in international waters along with hundreds of migrants and brought to the port city on May 28.
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Feature In an expansion of the war on drugs, the U.S. Coast Guard is targeting low-level smugglers in international waters — shackling them on ships for weeks or even months before arraignment in American courts.
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Turkey and Israel broke off diplomatic relations in 2010, when Israeli commandos stormed a flotilla sent by a Turkish charity to try to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza, killing nine passengers in international waters.
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His initial Twitter post, "China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters — rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act," suggested he viewed it as a grave affront.
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"From Georgia to Ukraine to these provocative passes over an American warship in international waters, Moscow has shown itself determined to bring back the days of Cold War tension between the U.S. and Russia. "U.
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The plan suggests sailing ships and flying aircraft near China's territorial waters in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait in freedom of navigation operations to demonstrate the right of free passage in international waters.
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"China's militarization of the South China Sea and aggressive action in international waters destabilizes the region and threatens shared efforts to promote security," Mattis said at the ASEAN-US meeting following his meeting with Wei.
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After spending two weeks in international waters with dozens of rescued African migrants, Carola Rackete, 31, was arrested on Saturday when the Sea-Watch 3 ship docked at the island port of Lampedusa without permission.
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After a sharp fall in migrant arrivals in recent months, numbers have picked up since June, with people-smugglers increasingly towing packed boats deep into international waters to escape especially the Italian-funded Libyan coastguard.
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Iran has one of the world's biggest tanker fleets, but many of the ships are ageing and require valid insurance, testing, inspection and certification, known as ship classification, to be able to ply international waters again.
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The 583,000-ton ship costs approximately $12,600 daily to run — split between SOS Méditerranée and Doctors Without Borders — and operates in international waters off the Libyan coast, where the majority of rubber and wooden boats depart.
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DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) began "enhanced security patrols" in the international waters of the Arabian Gulf area on Saturday, the U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet said on Sunday.
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The perceived safe-haven yen got a lift late in late U.S. trade on Friday after news that a Chinese Navy warship had seized a U.S. underwater drone in international waters in the South China Sea.
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As recently as last week, the US drew the wrath of Chinese defense officials when an American guided-missile destroy sailed through the South China Sea to make a point about unimpeded access in international waters.
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During these hours [on the boat], we were followed by the Turkish coast guards; the boat's engine was about to stop, until the Greek coast guards finally picked us up when we crossed into international waters.
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Iran has one of the world's biggest tanker fleets but many of the ships are ageing and require valid insurance, testing, inspection and certification, known as ship classification, to be able to ply international waters again.
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Washington (CNN)A Russian fighter jet intercepted a US bomber over the Baltic Sea in international waters on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry that was published on state news agency TASS.
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On October 27, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, eleven U.S. Navy destroyers and the aircraft carrier USS Randolph had cornered the Soviet submarine B-59 near Cuba, in international waters outside the U.S. "quarantine" area.
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As for China, Trump made only a vague reference to its threat in the South China Sea, where Beijing has built up islands and military outposts in an area the United States regards as international waters.
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Throughout the day on Thursday, Mr. Trump was not specific about how he planned to respond to Iran's strike, which American officials say happened over international waters while Iran asserts the drone was in its airspace.
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The Trump administration ought to declare new rules of engagement to allow the Navy to engage and destroy Iranian ships or fast boats that harass or threaten any ship, military or commercial, operating in international waters.
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In 1993, the U.S. Navy stopped a Chinese container ship, the Yinhe, or Milky Way, in international waters and demanded to board and inspect the vessel, suspecting it was carrying chemical weapons materials bound for Iran.
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Days later, two American warships sailed within 12 nautical miles of Chinese-claimed islands in an attempt to assert the United States' stance on freedom of navigation in international waters, a move that Beijing sharply condemned.
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The Chinese ship "conducted a series of increasingly aggressive maneuvers," coming within 45 yards of the bow of the Decatur, a guided-missile cruiser on what the Pentagon described as a routine mission in international waters.
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Such missile systems could threaten aircraft and ships that approach the disputed territories — something the United States makes a point of doing periodically to exercise freedom of navigation naval exercises within what it considers international waters.
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Just last month, the Libyan coast guard threatened to kill the crew of Proactiva Open Arms, the same ship I volunteered on in November, in international waters if they didn't turn over the refugees on board.
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While diplomatic tensions between the United States and Iran remain high, a British-flagged tanker that had been detained by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday left Bandar Abbas port heading for international waters.
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The man, surnamed Chen, said the vessel was bound for Hong Kong, despite knowing it was bound for international waters to traffic oil products, the prosecutors' office in the southern city of Kaohsiung said on Wednesday.
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He could have boarded a three-masted sloop, The Last Supper, at Fort Lauderdale, enjoying dancing, gambling and one-on-one therapy from beautiful social workers, until the ship listed gently to one side in international waters.
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But U.N. talks in Jamaica, which began on Monday, are working out regulations on mining in international waters, which may appeal to companies struggling to find new reserves on land and to deal with governments and communities.
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After a proposal from Jack, Teague married the ghost in a private ceremony on a boat in the international waters off of Ireland, where the marriage would be legal, with Teague's close friends and family in attendance.
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Like the Russians, U.S. military aircraft and warships have a tradition of making their presence felt in places they are not always wanted – albeit in international waters and airspace where they have every legal right to be.
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They're wading into dangerous international waters of political wheeling and dealing in order to forestall any financial support for a Scottish rebellion – the one, as Claire knows, that will end in disaster at the Battle of Culloden.
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" Even so, he said, "you do have to wonder why any country would want to send out small boats to approach another country's warship in international waters at high speed, ignoring the target ship's efforts to communicate.
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The report by rear admiral Enrico Credendino, dated January 23, explains that the mission has been since last October in phase 22014A, using 22011 ships and aircraft from various EU nations to stop smugglers in international waters.
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The report by rear admiral Enrico Credendino, dated January 29, explains that the mission has been since last October in phase 2A, using 16 ships and aircraft from various EU nations to stop smugglers in international waters.
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A Somali terrorist, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, was being held aboard an American warship after being captured in international waters off Yemen, and the official, John F. Murphy, wanted him tried at Guantánamo Bay before a military commission.
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But in an interview with VICE News focusing exclusively on foreign policy, Sanders was eager to wade into international waters and argue that many Democrats have bought into a peace-through-strength, militaristic approach to the world.
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Pence also said China must offer concessions on intellectual property theft, forced technology transfer, restricted access to Chinese markets, respect for international rules and norms, and efforts to limit freedom of navigation in international waters, among other issues.
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"These commanders sit atop a bureaucracy that supervises the IRGC's malicious regional activities, including its provocative ballistic missile program, harassment and sabotage of commercial vessels in international waters, and its destabilizing presence in Syria," a Treasury statement said.
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President-elect Donald Trump continued to use social media to poke at China Saturday, saying on Twitter that the U.S. should refuse to take a drone seized in international waters after the Communist country agreed to return it.
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The EU and NATO say they could operate closer to Libyan shores if requested by the Libyan government, but for now the EU will focus on training the Libyan coast guard in international waters to help combat smugglers.
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While the dangers of the Aegean crossing are immense, they are compounded by the fact that no official life saving operation is underway in the international waters, and Turkish authorities have been trying to halt the daily departures.
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The Permanent Court of Arbitration in June ruled that most of the Piran Bay area shared between the two neighbors was Slovenia's territorial waters, and that Slovenia should have a sea corridor through Croatian waters to international waters.
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Greenpeace said it had the right to protest peacefully in the international waters against the Arctic drilling, which the group says endangers Arctic birds and is contrary to Norway's commitment to reduce carbon emissions under the Paris Agreement.
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"This will significantly hinder the Kim regime's capacity to conduct evasive maritime activities that facilitate illicit coal and fuel transports, and erode its abilities to ship goods through international waters," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.
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The proposed route goes through Danish waters, but the pipeline consortium is investigating an alternative route north of the Danish island Bornholm which would run in international waters and therefore not be impacted by a potential Danish ban.
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The resumption of communication might even lead to new agreements: Compacts reached by military officers in 1972 and 1989 helped prevent escalation when U.S. and Soviet military ships and aircraft encountered each other in international waters and airspace.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The intention of four Iranian vessels that approached a U.S. warship in international waters in the Strait of Hormuz this week were not clear, but such actions can escalate tensions, the White House said on Thursday.
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The operation was part of a longstanding effort to challenge Beijing's "excessive maritime claims," the officials said, adding that the US does not recognize China's claim of sovereignty in that location and regards the area as international waters.
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The taking of the unmanned underwater vehicle in international waters near the Philippines triggered a diplomatic protest and speculation about whether it would strengthen U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's hand as he seeks a tougher line with China.
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Conoco's actions also forced PDVSA to stop shipping oil on its own vessels to terminals in the Caribbean, and then onto refineries worldwide, to avoid the risk the cargoes would be seized in international waters or foreign ports.
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The EU's "Sophia" mission is operating in international waters near Libya, but it is too far out to destroy boats used by people smugglers, catch traffickers or head off migrants trying to reach Europe by sea from Libya.
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And last week, high-speed boats from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy harassed American warships patrolling international waters in the Persian Gulf region at least four times, United States officials said, calling the actions dangerous and illegal.
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He remained connected to the business through personal ties and consultancy roles, but his primary venture became a gambling boat company called SunCruz Casinos, which took patrons to international waters just outside the reach of Floridian gambling laws.
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Rome maintains the immunity of both the marines to prosecution since they were serving on a U.N.-backed anti-piracy mission and the oil tanker they were escorting was in international waters when it fired on the fishermen.
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A Chinese warship had been shadowing the Bowditch, a United States naval vessel, in the international waters of the South China Sea when the Chinese launched a small boat and snatched the unmanned underwater vehicle, the Pentagon said.
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The plans call for Iran to bring the sailors to international waters, where they will be transferred to a vessel from the USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group, the official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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The sailboat Alex, carrying 41 migrants, docked at the same quay where a week ago another charity vessel collided with an Italian police boat when its captain decided to bring migrants ashore after two weeks in international waters.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Twitter on Thursday that the United States is lying over its drone being hit by Iran in international waters, saying Tehran will take the matter to the United Nations.
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In any other country's court, or in an international court, I sense that it's more likely that the uncertain location of its find spot would void the case; there are extensive tracts of international waters between Italy and Croatia.
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On Tuesday the Pentagon vowed that there would be retribution after a pair of missiles were fired the USS Mason, a U.S. Navy destroyer, as it conducted routine operations in international waters near the strait of Bab el-Mandeb.
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When the Shun De Man finally met again with the Valkoista in international waters off the West Australian coast on December 19, an Asian voice could be heard shouting "money, money," according to the commander and local media reports.
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Russia's defense ministry said on Friday that two Russian TU-95 bombers escorted by Su-35 fighter jets flew over the international waters of the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea and the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean.
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We're treated to sweeping wide shots of the resplendent Young estate, with its many pools and topiaries, invited to parties that are held on giant yachts in international waters or attached to the top floors of massive high-rises.
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"At this point, it's not clear what the intentions of the Iranian ships were, but the behavior is not acceptable, given that this U.S. ship was in international waters," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a news briefing.
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What surprised me even more, however, was that the stores are only allowed to open their doors when the ship is in international waters: shops must remain closed when the ship is in territorial waters, aka close to ports.
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And while maritime law evidently has more teeth than you'd expect, the dumping of bodies close to U.S. shores (and by U.S. boats in international waters, which are considered "flag states") is firmly in the purview of the EPA.
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After waiting in international waters for an invitation from Italy or another EU state to accept the Sea Watch, Rackete decided this week to sail for the southern Italian island of Lampedusa but was blocked by Italian government vessels.
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Those countries thwarted an effort in December by the administration to put a provision into the latest United Nations Security Council resolution on North Korea that would permit countries to hail and board North Korean ships in international waters.
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Joseph Guastella, the Air Force commander for the Central Command region in the Middle East, said the attack could have endangered "innocent civilians," even though officials at Central Command continued to assert that the drone was over international waters.
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While the Coast Guard, then a branch of the Department of Transportation, could chase smugglers into the Caribbean, Justice Department lawyers could rarely hold smugglers caught in the legal gray zone of international waters criminally liable in U.S. courts.
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Several countries, especially those that have made deals with their marine neighbors about what is allowed in their shared international waters, want regional fishing management bodies to take the lead in determining marine protected areas on the high seas.
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Hylton dives into why the United Nations is "preparing to mobilize the largest mining operation in the history of the world" and what could happen after the long-awaited Mining Code for international waters is finally ratified in 2020.
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Plans are in place for Iran to return the sailors to a US Navy vessel in international waters early Wednesday, after they were taken into custody while traveling from Kuwait to Bahrain, a US defense official said late Tuesday.
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After waiting in international waters for more than two weeks with some 41 migrants picked up from seas off Libya, she decided to enter Lampedusa on Saturday, defying naval orders and hitting a police patrol boat in the process.
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In 2002, the United Nations' maritime organization mandated A.I.S. for nearly all passenger ships regardless of size, and commercial ships, fishing vessels included, with a gross tonnage of more than 300 (typically, that's a 130-foot long vessel) in international waters.
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More to the point: as many of the reefs are effectively a part of international waters, preventing Chinese ships from sailing to or near them would undermine the very freedom of navigation rules that the US has been trying to uphold.
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"It's a question of if those islands are in fact in international waters and not part of China proper, then yeah, we're going to make sure that we defend international territories from being taken over by one country," he said.
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Related: Putin Says Panama Papers Are a Western Plot Against Russia "They tried to raise them on the radio but they did not answer," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity, adding the US ship was in international waters.
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Analysts said that investors were anxious and turned to defensive sectors in stocks as well as U.S. Treasuries after a report that a Chinese Navy warship seized a U.S. underwater drone on Thursday in international waters in the South China Sea.
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Though the missile made a high arc before splashing down in international waters after traveling some 310 miles, some analysts place the likely maximum range of the missile at 1,870 miles (others estimate a shorter range of just 750 miles).
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The editorial was reacting to a series of Trump's tweets, posted in light of the news that China had at first seized and then released an underwater U.S. Navy research drone found in international waters within the South China Sea.
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Hours before Ri even spoke at the UN on September 0003, the US flew an undisclosed number of B-1B bombers and F-15 fighter jets from Guam and Japan, respectively, into international waters off the coast of North Korea.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish security forces have seized more than a tonne of heroin hidden in a Democratic Republic of Congo-flagged cargo ship in a raid in international waters, the largest such seizure in recent Turkish history, police said on Wednesday.
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The Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement that two Russian TU-95 bombers escorted by Su-35 fighter jets flew over the international waters of the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea and the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean.
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HOUSTON/PUNTO FIJO, Venezuela (Reuters) - In the scorching heat of the Caribbean Sea, workers in scuba suits scrub crude oil by hand from the hull of the Caspian Galaxy, a tanker so filthy it can't set sail in international waters.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italian police said on Thursday they found 20 tonnes of hash worth as much as 200 million euros ($232 million) in the fuel tanks of a Panama-flagged ship that was stopped in international waters and escorted to Sicily.
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In June, the US military labeled the actions of an Iranian vessel "unsafe and unprofessional" after it trained a laser on a US helicopter that was accompanying a formation of American ships transiting the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz.
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After waiting in international waters for an invitation from Italy or an EU state to accept the ship, German captain Carola Rackete decided this week to sail for the southern Italian island of Lampedusa but was blocked by Italian government vessels.
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A coast guard vessel pursued the fishing vessel Lu Yan Yuan Yu 010 toward international waters in a high-seas chase on Monday, firing warning shots across the Chinese boat's bow as it attempted to raise the crew by radio.
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Speaking to reporters after being questioned by magistrates on the incident, Rackete said she was glad to have the chance to explain her decision to enter port after spending two weeks in international waters waiting in vain for permission to dock.
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The boats had drifted off course, but one was also suffering engine trouble, making it impossible for the Americans to rapidly back off and return to international waters when they were approached by armed Iranian naval boats, the official said.
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Three US Naval ships and a US Marine Corps CH-53E helicopter had an unsafe and unprofessional interaction with an Iranian Navy vessel while transiting the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz, according to a statement from the US military.
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Nearly half the earth's surface is a blue frontier over which no country holds sovereignty, and startup cities that float permanently in international waters will soon be economically feasible as construction materials get cheaper, greener and printable in 3D form.
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The U.S. Navy has also sailed war ships through the Taiwan Strait, and near fortified Chinese-controlled islands and reefs in the South China Sea — in a bid to show support for the right of freedom of navigation in international waters.
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"It's a question of if those islands are in fact in international waters and not part of China proper, then yeah, we're going to make sure that we defend international territories from being taken over by one country," Spicer said.
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The official said the USS Mason was operating in international waters, meaning at least 12 nautical miles off the coast, and was in the southern end of the Red Sea, near Yemen, but north of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
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Just last week South Korea announced it had seized the Lighthouse Winmore, a Hong Kong-registered ship in late November, that it claims had transferred oil to a North Korean vessel in international waters in violation of United Nations sanctions.
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In recent months, the Pentagon has also stepped up "freedom of navigation" patrols in the South China Sea, sending United States warships and aircraft into territory claimed by Beijing to assert Washington's view that these areas remain international waters and airspace.
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" Spicer added that if the islands that China claims sovereignty over in the South China Sea are "in international waters and not part of China proper, we'll make sure we defend international interests from being taken over by another country.
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It's also an indicator of libertarian Silicon Valley utopianism where everyone pins their identity to the blockchain, eschewing the globalist banking Nanny State and spending the rest of their lives blissfully playing video games on a seasteader colony in international waters.
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"[The missile deployment] reinforces the view that China intends to exert growing control in these international waters, including potentially by declaring an Air Defense Identification Zone," said Rory Medcalf, Head of the National Security College at the Australian National University.
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The owner and ship manager of the tanker confirmed in a statement that the Stena Impero had been confiscated "by unidentified small crafts and a small helicopter" in the strait, though it maintained that the vessel was in international waters.
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A Chinese vessel returned the submersible drone to a United States Navy ship in international waters off the Philippines, near where it was taken on Thursday, a spokesman for the Department of Defense, Peter Cook, said on the Pentagon's website.
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DUBAI, June 20 (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Twitter on Thursday that the United States is lying over its drone being hit by Iran in international waters, saying Tehran will take the matter to the United Nations.
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Let me make clear that despite Russia's typical efforts to distort the truth, Ukraine's ships never aggressed Russia's Navy, never opened fire despite being goaded, were attacked with gunfire and missiles, and were seized while sailing home in international waters.
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Russia's attack on three small Ukrainian naval vessels near the Kerch Strait, which Mr. Putin dismissed as a minor "border incident," took place in international waters, according to an analysis of Russian-provided maritime coordinates by the investigative group, Bellingcat.
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The latest on Monday reached an altitude of 120 km (75 miles) before falling into international waters in the Sea of Japan, but inside an exclusive economic zone where Japan has jurisdiction over the exploration and exploitation of maritime resources.
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"These commanders sit atop a bureaucracy that supervises the IRGC's malicious regional activities, including its provocative ballistic missile program, harassment and sabotage of commercial vessels in international waters, and its destabilizing presence in Syria," the department said in a statement.
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Earlier this year, Italian authorities seized the boat of a Spanish group, Proactiva Open Arms, that had picked up migrants in international waters and took them to Italy, instead of letting Libya's coast guard take them back to North Africa.
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But finance police said in a statement the suspected traffickers arrested on Thursday had managed to leave 16 people with wet clothes on a beach in Calabria, in the toe of Italy's boot, and start making a getaway toward international waters.
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CARACAS, Feb 28 (Reuters) - U.S. refiner Citgo said the Gerd Knutsen oil tanker, which had been carrying crude claimed by both the company and Venezuelan parent PDVSA, departed Venezuela's Jose Terminal on Thursday and entered international waters on Friday morning.
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Washington, which has no claims of its own but accuses Beijing of militarising international waters, conducts FONOPs near the disputed features that it says are intended to challenge China&aposs excessive territorial claims and keep the waters open for international shipping.
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Italian coast guard vessel Diciotti and two ships run by humanitarian groups, the Aquarius and the Golfo Azzurro, went to the rescue of a total of six rubber boats in international waters off the coast of Libya, the coast guard said.
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"(The missile deployment) reinforces the view that China intends to exert growing control in these international waters, including potentially by declaring an Air Defense Identification Zone," said Rory Medcalf, head of the National Security College at the Australian National University.
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Major busts included the seizure of 960 kilograms of cocaine on a boat headed to Europe; the interdiction of two boats carrying drugs to Puerto Rico; and Spanish authorities capturing a boat carrying 728 kilograms of cocaine in international waters.
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While the strait constitutes international waters, China is thought to be very sensitive about the presence of US military forces in the strait, and in recent years, the US has only sailed warships through the waterway about once a year.
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The incursion came days after a United States Navy destroyer and a United States Coast Guard cutter traversed the strait, which, like the South China Sea, is considered to be international waters under international law, but Beijing claims as its territory.
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But to understand just how much foreign money is swimming around Silicon Valley — and how entrepreneurs can get swept up when they wade into the undercurrents of international waters — look no further than the story of a company called Lucid Motors.
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China and the South China Sea Spicer notably said Monday that the United States would defend its interests in the South China Sea, where China is building islands in international waters in an attempt to push its control of the key shipping lanes.
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ROME/MADRID (Reuters) - Spain offered on Monday to take in a humanitarian ship stranded in international waters with 629 migrants aboard, prompting Italy's new anti-establishment government to claim victory in its bid to get European partners to help more on immigration.
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As their wooden boats have been destroyed, they have switched to flimsy rubber dinghies, which are hard to spot on the horizon and carry barely enough fuel to reach international waters, where the migrants on board have a chance of being picked up.
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As Christa Roodt, a professor of art law and business at the University of Glasgow recounted in 2015, the lore surrounding the statue's surfacing holds that it was first found by Italian fisherman while they were trawling international waters in the Adriatic.
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In a recent reminder of the risks amid rising tensions, the Pentagon this month accused China of an unsafe and unprofessional maneuver in the South China Sea that brought a Chinese ship dangerously close to a U.S. Navy destroyer in international waters.
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During his time in Myanmar, Cai is suspected of traversing the country, testing drug samples, organizing couriers and obtaining a fishing boat to transport the illicit cargo to a bigger vessel in international waters, according to police and the Myanmar PowerPoint document.
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Neither the UK or US recognize Beijing's territorial claims -- which were largely thrown out by an international tribunal last year -- and maintain vessels should be able to pass through the waters around the islands occupied by China the same as other international waters.
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There are two ways to interpret that in Earth terms: Space as the ocean: Frans von der Dunk, a professor of Space Law with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, says the Outer Space Treaty sets up space to be regulated like international waters.
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"Artificial island construction and indisputable militarization of facilities on features in international waters undermine regional stability," Mattis told an audience at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, where he spent much of his time criticizing Beijing for its actions in the region.
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Read more: WATCH: Iranian forces allegedly remove naval mine from tanker after US Navy rescues its crew members, US military claims"This is the latest of many provocative and hostile actions by Iran against vessels operating in international waters," the president said.
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By weakening our protections for other countries here at home, this legislation would endanger Americans diplomats, service members and, conceivably, officials in the US who are involved in controversial actions abroad, from conducting airstrikes against terrorists to defending US interests in international waters.
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Demonstrators voiced opposition to the construction of Chinese maritime military bases in international waters in the South China Sea, as well as onerous loan deals to finance Chinese-led projects under Xi's ambitious, global "one belt, one road" infrastructure scheme, CNN Philippines reported.
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" Mattis said at an Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting in Singapore last month following a meeting with Wei: "China's militarization of the South China Sea and aggressive action in international waters destabilizes the region and threatens shared efforts to promote security.
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Nothing I'd experienced to that point in my life had prepared me for the endorphin-aided endurance test of partying my ass off for basically 96 hours straight in international waters—and sometimes on private islands—with a seemingly endless supply of champagne.
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Left unsaid was that this is a man whose regime has, in recent years, kidnapped Hong Kong booksellers, imprisoned the country's sole winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, kept his widow under house arrest, and seized U.S. naval equipment in international waters.
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The countries of the North Atlantic must agree, by consensus, on what is allowed in the high seas in their region, for instance, while the International Seabed Authority regulates what is allowed on the seabed in international waters, but not much more.
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Vincennes, which was patrolling the Persian Gulf to ensure freedom of navigation, sailed into Iranian territorial waters to engage an Iranian vessel after one of its helicopters flying in international waters was fired upon by the Iranian vessel which was in Iranian waters.
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"After the issuing of the ruling for the end of detention of the English tanker Stena Impero, this vessel will soon, and after the passing of 65 days, begin its movement from the port of Bandar Abbas toward international waters," Afifipour reportedly said.
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It is entirely normal for Russian surveillance ships to patrol international waters near US Naval outposts like Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, Naval Station Mayport, Florida, and Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, but the erratic behavior of the Viktor Leonov is not.
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The Kokura Courageous and Front Altair tankers were attacked in international waters Thursday, prompting the evacuation of both vessels and raising fears of further confrontation in one of the world's most strategic shipping lanes at a time of high tensions between the US and Iran.
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MONTREAL (Reuters) - Qatar Airways is expected to have access to three contingency routes over international waters in early August, after a UN-led meeting on Monday discussed air corridors for Doha following a rift with its neighbors, a source familiar with the matter said.
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U.S. officials said the drone was flying over international waters in the Strait of Hormuz — the world's busiest transit lane for seaborne oil shipments — but Iran claims it entered its airspace.. Trump said he called off the strikes after being told 150 people would die.
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The Iranian vessels moved at high speed toward the Nitze, which was operating in accordance with international law in international waters and ignored maritime "rules of the road" as set out in the 1972 Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea.
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But in recent years, a growing demand for raw materials, a drying up of traditional sources, and technological improvements are causing a sea change, with governments and companies rushing to devise new deep ocean mining technologies and lock down exploration licenses in international waters.
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"What pains me the most is that due to the court receivership many ship crews are in the middle of international waters like orphans, and I am very sorry and pained to have created a logistics crisis, but we did everything we could," he said.
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Also adding to investors' risk-averse mood, the Trump administration vowed on Monday that the United States would prevent China from taking over territory in international waters in the South China Sea, something Chinese state media has warned would require Washington to "wage war".
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Hockey is for tough men, not soft babies, and if there isn't the potential to see a player have a seizure on the ice, they say they'll take their money elsewhere, which I assume is international waters to bet on fights between endangered baby animals.
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A recently published Defense Department video captures crew members from the Coast Guard Cutter Munro as they chase a "self-propelled semi-submersible suspected drug smuggling vessel" (or a narco sub, for short) through international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on June 18.
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The taking of the unmanned underwater vehicle in international waters near the Philippines triggered a U.S. diplomatic protest and speculation about whether it would strengthen U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's hand as he seeks a tougher line with China or whether China was testing him.
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The US Navy sailed two warships within 12 nautical miles of the disputed Paracel Islands in the past week, the first time it has used more than one vessel in the operations, which are meant to demonstrate the right of free passage in international waters.
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Related: Trump accuses China of allowing oil into North Korea The South Korean Foreign Ministry said the vessel departed the port of Yeosu in South Korea on October 19 carrying refined oil that was then transferred to a North Korean ship in international waters.
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Kyle Raines, a spokesman for United States Central Command, said Revolutionary Guard patrol boats had repeatedly ignored warnings from two guided missile destroyers, the Nitze and the Mason, operating in international waters near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital transit route to the Persian Gulf.
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The industry says the U.S. could take a major step toward ending shark finning if the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were to further crack down on imports of shark products from countries that do not go far enough to stop finning in international waters.
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Last month, Taiwanese prosecutors in the southern city of Kaohsiung detained and released Chen Shih-hsien, who leased a Chinese-owned ship registered in Hong Kong that was spotted by United States drones transferring oil to a North Korean vessel in international waters last October.
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During his campaign, Mr. Trump labeled President Barack Obama as weak in defending international waters in the South China Sea, where Beijing has started a sharp military buildup to reclaim land, install runways and haul equipment onto reefs and shoals it claims as its own.
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Beijing has moved aggressively to enforce historically dubious claims to international waters and islands far from its shores, building reefs into islands and making the bizarre assertion that the economic zones around them are Chinese waters — arguments contrary to any independent interpretation of international law.
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On Thursday, however, North Korea raised the stakes by saying that it was considering a plan to test-fire four intermediate-range Hwasong-12 missiles in international waters near Guam, home to American air and naval bases as well as a Thaad antimissile system.
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Washington (CNN)The Russian spy ship, the Viktor Leonov, was spotted 100 miles south east of Wilmington, North Carolina, in international waters, according to a US military official, just days after the vessel was seen leaving the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain.
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CNN reported Sunday the USS Decatur sailed within 12 nautical miles of Gaven and Johnson reefs in the Spratly Islands as part of what the US Navy calls freedom of navigation operations, which are meant to enforce the right of free passage in international waters.
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China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the comments at a daily press briefing in Beijing after the new U.S. administration of President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that the United States would prevent China from taking over territory in international waters in the South China Sea.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The debris field from a U.S. military drone that was shot down by Iran is in international waters in the Strait of Hormuz, and U.S. naval assets have been dispatched to the area, a U.S. official told Reuters, contradicting Iran's account of the shoot-down.
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It was supposed to be the "first seastead in international waters"—a small white box protruding from the waves off the coast of Phuket, Thailand, occupied by two would-be pioneers who decided to live there in the pursuit of a new life unfettered by national laws.
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The supporters of the Identitarian movement, which says it wants to preserve Europe's identity, have rented a ship to take them to international waters off the Libyan coast so they can monitor humanitarian rescuers, who they say collude with people smugglers who cram migrants onto dangerous boats.
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A war of words broke out between Germany and Italy on Sunday after Carola Rackete, who spent two weeks in international waters with dozens of rescued African migrants, was arrested on Saturday when the Sea-Watch 3 ship docked at the island port of Lampedusa without permission.
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"Although there was strong intelligence that the boat was carrying a large volume of drugs, it could not be boarded in international waters by the UK authorities without the permission of the Tanzanian government – something they had never previously granted," the CPS said in a statement.
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"By their continuous presence in international waters, Iranian naval forces aim to implement the orders of commander-in-chief of the armed forces (Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei), wave the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran, thwart the Iranophobia plots, and secure shipping routes," Hassani said.
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"We see the Taiwan Straits as another (set of) international waters, and so that's why we do the transits through the straits, is again just exercising the right to pass through those waters in accordance with international law," Richardson said last Friday while speaking in Tokyo.
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Kevin Stephens, spokesman for the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet, said that on the morning of January 12, an Iranian drone flew toward both the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and the USS Harry S. Truman, both of which were operating in international waters in the gulf.
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The two, Chad Elwartowski and his partner Supranee Thepdet, have been accused of violating Thai sovereignty by raising a small cabin on top of a big, weighted spar in what they say are international waters, 14 nautical miles off the west-coast Thai island of Phuket.
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Video footage on French state television and on social media showed about 35 small French fishing boats menacing five larger British vessels early Tuesday morning in a stretch of international waters that separates Britain from the rest of Europe, just off the northwest coast of France.
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Instead, it has responded with its own pressure campaign to force Trump to lift the sanctions, including bombing oil tankers in international waters and oil fields in Saudi Arabia, downing a US military drone, and attacking two US military sites in Iraq after the Soleimani killing.
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During last year's campaign, Donald J. Trump labeled President Barack Obama as weak in defending international waters in the South China Sea, where Beijing has started a sharp military buildup to reclaim land, install runways and haul equipment onto reefs and shoals it claims as its own.
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But despite the relatively large number of military assets dedicated to the mission, officials say that keeping tabs on North Korean smuggling is a major challenge given the amount of ocean involved and the fact that legitimate ship-to-ship transfers in international waters are fairly common.
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Duterte has sought to befriend Beijing in the hope of securing major investments, rebuking critics who say he is gambling with national sovereignty at a time when China is accused of using force in the South China Sea and seeking to control international waters on its terms.
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Duterte has sought to befriend Beijing in the hope of securing major investments, rebuking critics who say he is gambling with national sovereignty at a time when China is accused of using force in the South China Sea and seeking to control international waters on its terms.
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Trump also belittled North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un as "Rocket Man," a petty insult likely to infuriate the notoriously thin-skinned dictator Hours before Ri's speech on Saturday, Trump sent US bombers to fly in international waters along the North Korean coast in a provocative show of force.
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The stripping of safeguards under the act means U.S. ships and commercial fishermen in international waters will no longer be bound to check levels of underwater noise that could constitute harassment of the whales, while vessel strikes that kill or injure the humpbacks might not be closely tracked.
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The coast guard quickly evacuated 13 of them to Italy for emergency medical treatment, but instead of bringing the rest to shore, the Diciotti stayed in international waters while Rome insisted that Malta should take them since the migrant boat had first passed through its search-and-rescue area.
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Two US defense officials told CNN at the time that the North Korean Romeo-class submarine was engaged in "unusual deployment activity" in the waters off the coast of Japan and was patrolling farther that it has ever gone, sailing some 100 kilometers out to sea in international waters.
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The coastguard quickly evacuated 13 of them to Italy for emergency medical treatment, but instead of bringing the rest to shore, the Diciotti stayed in international waters while Rome insisted that Malta should take them since the migrant boat had first passed through its search-and-rescue area.
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"The United States is very concerned about the Houthis' latest attempt to escalate the war in Yemen, this time by attacking a commercial vessel while it transited one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, the Bab al-Mandab, in international waters," the White House said in a statement.
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It said the latter were especially important as waters around Triton had been the scene of recent incidents between China and Vietnam and multiple U.S. freedom-of-navigation operations, which the U.S. navy has used to assert what it sees as its right to free passage in international waters.
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Trump has created an enemy that has nothing left to loseThe US has since July been trying to build a military coalition to patrol international waters in the Persian Gulf to protect their maritime interests against Iran, but there hasn't been much enthusiasm for this plan so far.
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" In a statement, Commander Urban said Wednesday's episodes included two in which the Squall and the Tempest, American coastal patrol ships operating in international waters, were harassed by three boats from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, which crisscrossed the Tempest's bow and created "a possible collision hazard.
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Title 8 of the U.S. Code states that all non-citizens who arrive in the U.S. (whether or not at a designated port of arrival, including people stopped in international waters before getting to the U.S.) have a right to apply for asylum, irrespective of the non-citizen's status.
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Moving thousands and thousands of pounds of weed and hashish by boat and plane over international waters from the mid-303s to the early-230s, Stratton quickly became known as a leader in the "Hippie Mafia" as one of the country's largest importers of top-notch hash and bud.
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The state's lab had been working through the night, and one of his cabinet secretaries was on the line telling him 13 of the 42 crewmembers and passengers tested for coronavirus aboard the Grand Princess Cruise Ship, which was idling in international waters off California's coast, had tested positive.
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The alliance issued a statement condemning Russian forces for impounding Ukrainian vessels on Sunday — as the European Union did on Wednesday when it announced that the bloc would not impose sanctions — but NATO commanders have said entering the Sea of Azov is unlikely: It is not considered international waters.
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In the eyes of America's friends in Asia, the brazen maneuver to launch an operation against an American Navy vessel in international waters in the South China Sea about 50 miles from the Philippines, another close American ally, has raised questions about one of the admiral's crucial words.
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The British-flagged oil tanker that was seized by Iran two months ago left port with its crew, sailed into international waters in the Strait of Hormuz and headed for Dubai on Friday, bringing an end to at least one source of contention between Iran and the West.
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During last year's presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump labeled President Barack Obama as weak in defending international waters off the coast of China, where Beijing has engaged in a sharp military buildup to reclaim land, install runways and haul equipment onto reefs and shoals it claims as its own.
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It has constructed a network of land-based naval aviation, long-range anti-ship missiles, militarized islands in international waters, a large submarine force, space-based and cyber capabilities, and a burgeoning surface fleet that can project power into the Indian Ocean and beyond the First Island chain.
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The British-flagged oil tanker that was seized by Iran two months ago left port with its crew, sailed into international waters in the Strait of Hormuz and headed for Dubai on Friday, bringing an end to at least one source of contention between Iran and the West.
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"China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters — rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act, " Trump said in a tweet early on Saturday from his seaside resort club Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, where he plans to spend the holidays.
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"I will talk with my counterparts, discussing the regional security crisis caused by the reckless DPRK North Korea provocations but also discuss our respect for shared values like sovereignty of the states, their territorial integrity, freedom of navigation through historically international waters, and fair and reciprocal trade," Mattis told reporters.
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The meeting comes after members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard boarded the Stena Impero on Friday as it passed through international waters, saying it was a "reciprocal action" after British forces intercepted an Iranian tanker near the British territory of Gibraltar at the entrance to the Mediterranean earlier this month.
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So when the phone rang with a tip that an enormous freighter loaded with hashish was plying international waters south of Sicily — bound for Libya, hundreds of miles to the east of the usual quick drug route to Spain — Francesco Amico, a senior investigator, immediately knew something odd was going on.
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Iran's state-run Fars news agency on Tuesday tweeted a photo of the Grace 1 alongside the caption: "According to government consultations, we expect to continue operating in the international waters with the Iranian flag in the very near future," adding that "an informal exchange to resolve the issue" was underway.
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In the international waters of the Black Sea, the Russian navy first rammed a Ukrainian navy tugboat that had asked for permission to enter the Straits of Kerch en route to the Sea of Azov, then attacked two small Ukrainian warships that were sailing with the tug, capturing all three ships.
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The retaliatory strikes on Thursday targeted three radar installations that were "involved in the recent missile launches threatening U.S.S. Mason and other vessels operating in international waters in the Red Sea" and the Bab el Mandeb Strait, which is one of the world's most heavily trafficked waterways, the Pentagon said.
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We'll take this new aggression to #UN & show that the US is lying about international waters With Iran remaining resolute in its messaging and seemingly unwilling to take steps to lower tensions, European leaders hope to convince Iranian officials to pursue a diplomatic solution to the standoff with the United States.
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BEIJING — The Pentagon on Saturday said that Beijing had agreed to return an underwater drone seized by China in international waters, an indication that the two countries were moving to resolve an unusual incident that risked sharpening tensions in the run-up to the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
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The 2178,21 items recovered from two miles below the surface in international waters off Newfoundland are remnants of a gilded era: a bowler hat, the crusty leather folds of a once-sumptuous Gladstone bag and the dark, sleek curves of a bronze angel that graced the post of a staircase.
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Congress responded by passing a set of laws, including the 1986 Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, that defined drug smuggling in international waters as a crime against the United States, even when there was no proof that the drugs, often carried on foreign boats, were bound for the United States.
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That has created a behind-the-scenes debate inside the Trump administration over how to respond — whether to consider a pre-emptive strike on the missile, try to intercept it with antiballistic missile batteries, or simply let the test proceed, especially if the missile appears headed for splashdown in international waters.
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Mark C. Toner, a State Department spokesman, told reporters in Washington in response to a question about the Liaoning's passage through the strait that the United States "wouldn't have a problem" with countries sailing their vessels in international waters as long as it was done in accordance with international law.
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Two US officials told CNN that the guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur sailed within 12 nautical miles of Gaven and Johnson reefs in the Spratly Islands as part of what the US Navy calls "freedom of navigation operations," which are meant to enforce the right of free passage in international waters.
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The Coast Guard has a myriad of other roles: seizing drugs from smugglers, intercepting pirates, inspecting ships in ports, stopping illegal fishing in domestic and international waters and augmenting the US Navy during wartime, as well as all of the support staff it takes to pull off these wide ranging missions.
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It had no standing in international law (except within the law of the sea, which allows for the hot pursuit of vessels into international waters), and since at least March 1965 the State Department Office of the Legal Adviser had rejected it as an appropriate justification for crossing the Cambodian border.
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" President-elect Trump has responded in the manner to which we have become accustomed, tweeting: "China steals US Navy research drone in international waters -- rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented (sic) act" and "We should tell China that we don't want the drone they stole back.
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Add to the trade tensions, the attempts by China to exert military power through much of Asia, and international waters in the South China Sea Asia and an accidental shooting match, thought not an all-out war, have to be considered as an event with a greater than zero probability, or risk.
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The Pentagon had tough words for Iran on Friday as the US continues to assert its claim that Tehran was responsible for the attack on the two oil tankers in international waters after releasing video footage its says shows an Iranian patrol boat removing an unexploded mine from one of the vessels' hulls.
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"I will explain all in due course but for now all I want to say is be VERY careful when dabbling in spirituality, it's not something to mess with…" The couple wed in a private ceremony on a boat in the international waters off of Ireland, where the marriage would be legal.
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The European Union has a crucial role to play in diffusing military tensions between the United States and Iran, the bloc's top diplomat said, after the U.S. Defense Department insisted that an American surveillance drone shot down by an Iranian projectile in the Gulf region on Wednesday was operating over international waters.
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This matters, because if China doesn't intend to claim the Moon as their territory, they are setting a poor example in trying to seize the international waters and sovereign territories in the South China Sea, in violation of 400 years of freedom of the seas and the Law of the Sea Convention.
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Two US defense officials told CNN that the guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins and the cruiser USS Antietam sailed within 12 miles of four of the Paracel Islands in what the US Navy calls a "freedom of navigation operation," which are meant to enforce the right of free passage in international waters.
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A US official told CNN that the guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins and the cruiser USS Antietam sailed within 12 miles of four of the Paracel Islands in its what the US Navy calls a "freedom of navigation operation" (FONOP), which are meant to enforce the right of free passage in international waters.
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Tensions between Iran and the U.S. have been rising for weeks following attacks on two oil tankers, which the U.S. blamed on Iranian forces, as well as the destruction of a U.S. spy drone that the White House has said was flying over international waters at the time it was shot down.
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A treaty, if and when it goes into effect, would scale up those efforts: Advocates want 30 percent of the high seas to be set aside, while the United Nations development goals, which the nations of the world have already agreed to, propose to protect at least 10 percent of international waters.
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The military option the Trump administration has threatened against North Korea could involve shooting down North Korean missiles over international waters, said Cheon Seong-whun, a visiting research fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul who served as a presidential secretary for security strategy until a few months ago.
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The EU's "Sophia" mission is operating in international waters near Libya and has saved some 13,000 lives since it started in mid-2015, but it is too far out to destroy boats used by people smugglers, catch traffickers or head off an expected surge in migrants trying to reach Europe by sea from Libya.
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The official account of the crisis begins with a terse Pentagon statement, issued on October 93th, that the McCampbell, an Arleigh Burke class destroyer, had been forced to stop in international waters by vessels "answering to China's military chain of command" while conducting a "routine, lawful transit in the vicinity of the Paracel Islands".
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While Harris has always been a hawk on North Korea during his term at Pacific Command, he has also issued warnings on China as Beijing has pursued a more muscular military posture in the Pacific and established a military presence on man-made islands in areas the US and its allies contend are international waters.
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Zhan Wang's video, "Beyond 12 Nautical Miles Floating Rock Drifts on the Open Sea" (2000) — whose title refers to the distance beyond which any country can claim sovereignty over open waters — follows a hollow, stainless steel rock cast by the artist as it floats freely in international waters, negotiating immaterial borders with spectral grace.
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The company that owns the vessel, Stena Bulk, said it has lost contact with the ship sometime after 11:00 am E.T. The tanker "was approached by unidentified small crafts and a helicopter during transit of the Strait of Hormuz while the vessel was in international waters," the company said in a statement on its web site.
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More important than the equipment was the principle of freedom of navigation in international waters, and whether China was in the process of imposing its own rules in the South China Sea — more than 800 miles away from its coastline, said Alexander Vuving, a specialist on Vietnam at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii.
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"In this case, no one really owns the water but any company or country can mine the resources [...] as long as they follow certain safety/moral guidelines," Again, a statement like that would be much more comforting if Earth's oceans weren't in devastating ecological freefall as a result of human commercial pressures, much of which takes place in international waters.
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Japan's defense minister, Gen Nakatani, told reporters that the missile had landed about 155 miles off northern Japan, in international waters that the country claims under maritime law as part of its exclusive economic zone, or E.E.Z. It was the closest a North Korean missile had come to Japan since 1998, when Pyongyang launched one that flew over the country.
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Harassment of U.S. Naval forces by Iranian forces in international waters of the Persian Gulf reveals that Iran's leadership is prepared to test the new administration: on its publicly stated commitment to confront Iran when it fails to meet its obligations under the JCPOA (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), when it violates United Nations sanctions, or when it engages in destabilizing activities in the region.
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After nearly fifteen years in standup and a starry-eyed move from rural Ohio to LA, Silverman's acerbic wit has caught plenty of attention: her appearance on Comedy Central's short-lived Not Safe with Nikki Glaser certainly opened doors, but not before the release of her debut album Intimate Apparel, which helped her become head writer on Maximum Fun's comedy quiz podcast International Waters.
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The US is accusing a Russian spy ship of conducting multiple "unsafe" maneuvers off the eastern coast of the US.The Viktor Leonov has patrolled international waters flanking Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, every year since 2014, but since its arrival this week, it has sailed with no warning lights and ignored other ships, the US Coast Guard said in a marine safety information bulletin, according to CNN.
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But the Clinton administration was willing to defend it at the Supreme Court, and in 1993 the Supreme Court ruled the Haiti policy was legal — because the obligation in US law not to return people to a place where they'd be persecuted didn't apply in international waters, and the International Refugee Convention, which held the US to the same obligation, didn't have legal force.
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The liquor was recovered last month from the wreckage of the S.S. Kyros, a Swedish steamship, in international waters between Sweden and Finland, where the ship sank in 1917 after being attacked by a German submarine during World War I. The Germans had determined the ship, which was headed to Russia, was carrying contraband, according to Ocean X Team, a Swedish search and salvage company that participated in the recovery.
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While the formal UN agenda includes a host of topics that the President doesn't like -- including climate change and sustainable development -- he's probably going to try to get other member states to focus on what's top of mind for him, like reports that Iran was behind the recent attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities, after several months of illegal activities in international waters, and a host of other malign activities.
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By the end of 2020, we must deliver a strong high seas biodiversity treaty at the United Nations that protects key regions of our shared international waters; we must make sure that vast expanses of Antarctica's Southern Ocean are protected; and nations must agree at the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting next year to fully protect at least 30% of our ocean by 2030, and then ensure the remaining 70% is sustainably managed.
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