Paul Carsten
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Reuters found Maritime Mutual has covered almost one in six shadow fleet tankers blacklisted by Western governments. Here's how it worked: reut.rs/3WX9uii
Iran, Russia and the New Zealand insurer that kept their sanctioned oil flowing
A dark fleet of tankers carried tens of billions of dollars of Iranian and Russian oil to Asia, evading Western sanctions. Reuters found the ships were connected by one thing: a small insurance company in New Zealand, run by a British family.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Reuters found Maritime Mutual has covered almost one in six shadow fleet tankers blacklisted by Western governments. Here's how it worked: reut.rs/3WX9uii
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Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
July 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
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BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr
August 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr
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More Palestinians die of starvation as famine spreads in Gaza – Middle East crisis live
More Palestinians die of starvation as famine spreads in Gaza – Middle East crisis live
Gaza hospitals record eight new deaths due to starvation and malnutrition, including two children
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for an urgent scale-up of evacuations from Gaza, warning that more than 15,600 patients remain in need of specialised care.
In a post on X, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus thanked the UAE for supporting the latest evacuation of critically injured and sick patients but stressed that far more action is needed. Continue reading...
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August 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
More Palestinians die of starvation as famine spreads in Gaza – Middle East crisis live
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🚨NEW @financialtimes.com investigation reveals evidence that Russian executions of Ukrainian POWs are likely part of a systematic policy. And we uncover the identity of a Russian soldier likely involved in filming and carrying out the mass execution of 6 POWs.
📽️WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...
📽️WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...
'Film me!’: Russia's executions of Ukrainian POWs points to a policy | FT Film
YouTube video by Financial Times
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February 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🚨NEW @financialtimes.com investigation reveals evidence that Russian executions of Ukrainian POWs are likely part of a systematic policy. And we uncover the identity of a Russian soldier likely involved in filming and carrying out the mass execution of 6 POWs.
📽️WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...
📽️WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...
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Images of young children purportedly killed in the Russia-Ukraine war stare out from banners in city squares in Germany. The photo exhibit, typically titled the ‘Alley of Angels,’ is a clarion call to the continent’s leaders to end the fighting reut.rs/4hGNP6W 1/6
February 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Images of young children purportedly killed in the Russia-Ukraine war stare out from banners in city squares in Germany. The photo exhibit, typically titled the ‘Alley of Angels,’ is a clarion call to the continent’s leaders to end the fighting reut.rs/4hGNP6W 1/6
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January 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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So relentless has been Israel’s assault, and so complete the destruction in northern Gaza that a former Israeli defence minister described the military’s actions there as ‘ethnic cleansing’.
Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e
Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e
January 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
So relentless has been Israel’s assault, and so complete the destruction in northern Gaza that a former Israeli defence minister described the military’s actions there as ‘ethnic cleansing’.
Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e
Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e
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⚓ EU shipyards are repairing Russian ice-class tankers and offering them dry dock facilities, enabling Moscow to continue moving gas through the Arctic despite western sanctions on its energy sector.
www.ft.com/content/1604... with @chriscook.news @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/1604... with @chriscook.news @financialtimes.com
EU shipyards are fixing Russia’s Arctic LNG tankers
Repairs and dry-docking enable Moscow to maintain market access for gas plant through the winter
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January 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
⚓ EU shipyards are repairing Russian ice-class tankers and offering them dry dock facilities, enabling Moscow to continue moving gas through the Arctic despite western sanctions on its energy sector.
www.ft.com/content/1604... with @chriscook.news @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/1604... with @chriscook.news @financialtimes.com
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Hacking group PRANA Network leaked the Sahara Thunder emails in February of last year because it wanted to lift the lid on Iran’s circumvention of Western sanctions, two of the hackers told Reuters reut.rs/3W7SqGl
How Iran moves sanctioned oil around the world
Inside the secret operations of Iranian company Sahara Thunder, revealed and visually reconstructed from more than 10,000 leaked emails.
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January 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Hacking group PRANA Network leaked the Sahara Thunder emails in February of last year because it wanted to lift the lid on Iran’s circumvention of Western sanctions, two of the hackers told Reuters reut.rs/3W7SqGl
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In the period covered by the emails, Sahara Thunder shipped around the world almost 20 million barrels of oil, valued at some $1.7 billion based on the average market price in 2023 6/7
January 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
In the period covered by the emails, Sahara Thunder shipped around the world almost 20 million barrels of oil, valued at some $1.7 billion based on the average market price in 2023 6/7
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From March 2022 to February 2024, Sahara Thunder helped deliver 18 different sanctioned oil cargoes with a fleet of 34 ships, according to a Reuters analysis of the leaked emails 5/7
January 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
From March 2022 to February 2024, Sahara Thunder helped deliver 18 different sanctioned oil cargoes with a fleet of 34 ships, according to a Reuters analysis of the leaked emails 5/7
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Reuters pieced together the fleet of vessels run by Sahara Thunder and its business partners, and mapped out how much oil was transferred between each of the ships in the network 4/7
January 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Reuters pieced together the fleet of vessels run by Sahara Thunder and its business partners, and mapped out how much oil was transferred between each of the ships in the network 4/7
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Extracts from emails showed how Sahara Thunder and its partners shifted oil from vessel to vessel, forged documents, painted ships with new identities, faked tracking signals, and took painstaking measures to avoid any trace of Iran 3/7
January 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Extracts from emails showed how Sahara Thunder and its partners shifted oil from vessel to vessel, forged documents, painted ships with new identities, faked tracking signals, and took painstaking measures to avoid any trace of Iran 3/7
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📍Reuters mapped the key locations where tankers used by Iranian company Sahara Thunder transferred oil, from Iran and the United Arab Emirates, to Venezuela, northern Russia and a string of ports in China 2/7
January 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
📍Reuters mapped the key locations where tankers used by Iranian company Sahara Thunder transferred oil, from Iran and the United Arab Emirates, to Venezuela, northern Russia and a string of ports in China 2/7
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While Iran's oil-smuggling methods have been well-guarded, a trove of emails leaked last year exposed unusually granular detail about the day-to-day workings of one company — Sahara Thunder reut.rs/3W7SqGl 1/7
January 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
While Iran's oil-smuggling methods have been well-guarded, a trove of emails leaked last year exposed unusually granular detail about the day-to-day workings of one company — Sahara Thunder reut.rs/3W7SqGl 1/7
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A sophisticated fuel oil smuggling network that some experts believe generates at least $1 billion a year for Iran and its proxies has flourished in Iraq since Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani took office in 2022 reut.rs/4fT4UcN 1/8
December 3, 2024 at 9:58 AM
A sophisticated fuel oil smuggling network that some experts believe generates at least $1 billion a year for Iran and its proxies has flourished in Iraq since Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani took office in 2022 reut.rs/4fT4UcN 1/8