On Christmas Day, authorities in Estonia and Finland noted the sudden interruption of the Estlink 2 undersea electricity cable linking their two nations - just as ship tracking data showed the Cook Islands-registered "Eagle S" passing outbound from Russia’s Baltic coast en route to Egypt.

Dodging the cap has increased the price Russia gets for its oil on global markets, sanctions experts say. The discount for Russian oil compared to international benchmark Brent crude has shrunk from as much as $35 per barrel to less than $10 per barrel. Russia has seen oil income hold up steadily and even rise.

His announcement was made at a summit in Helsinki attended by all Nato countries perched on the Baltic Sea - Finland, Estonia, Denmark, Germany, Latvia ... tanker Eagle S - which was sailing under a Cook Islands flag - and steered it into Finnish waters ...

"It appears that the tactics of hybrid warfare in the Taiwan Strait are being transferred to the Baltic Sea," reported the Estonian broadcaster ERR, citing Toomas Hanso. "The recent incidents are proof of this,

In 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as the United States' 44th president and the nation's first Black chief executive. In 2010, senior Hamas Commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was assassinated in his hotel room while on a visit to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Denmark has reacted indignantly to Trump’s threats, but Greenland has been slipping from its grip for decades.

Still, the official announcement declined to use the word war to characterize Moscow’s activities outside Ukraine. Instead, the EU condemned Russians’ “destabilising” and “malicious actions.” The inability to describe acts of war as acts of war is part of a culture of distortion and denial regarding the subject of state-sponsored violence.

"Had it continued for another 12 minutes, the carnage would have been much worse than the four basic cables that were there," Finnish President Alexander Stubb said.

A spate of alleged sabotage operations against undersea cables in the Baltic Sea has raised the prospect of a dangerous 2025 in NATO's northern theater.

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Lodestone Energy has energised the 42MW Te Herenga o Te Rā solar PV plant in the Bay of Plenty on New Zealand’s northern island.

Portugal's government intends to create an offshore wind cluster in the Atlantic Ocean with ten gigawatts capacity.