After years of U.S. threats, Iran is taking steps which suggest that is both willing and capable of closing the Strait of Hormuz. On December 24, 2011 Iran started its [...]
(RFi) – L’opérateur de la centrale nucléaire accidentée de Fukushima a commencé lundi 4 avril 2011 à déverser en mer plus de 11 000 ...
(24heures.ch) – Dix-neuf jours après le tremblement de terre et son tsunami dévastateur qui ont ravagé le nord-est du Japon, la situation n ...
(RIA Novosti) – Les équipages de deux pétroliers, dont le premier était totalement composé de marins russes et le second l’était part ...
SOURCE : The Jamestown’s Foundation (22-02-11) Moscow’s apparently random decision to increase tensions with Tokyo over the disputed Kurile Islands provoked anxiety among international observers. Yet, the recent surge in bilateral [ ...
SOURCE : Living in Peru (19-02-11) A new WikiLeaks cable, undisclosed Friday, reveals Chile’s concern and fear that the International Court of Justice in The Hague could eventually rule in favor [...]
SOURCE : The Daily Star (Lebanon) (21-02-11) BEIRUT: The Israel Navy is finalizing plans which would see it defend its country’s disputed oil and gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, a [...]
SOURCE : The Times of India (19-02-11) NEW DELHI: With India and Pakistan all set to resume their bilateral dialogue process, senior naval officials feel substantive progress is possible in resolving [...]
SOURCE : The Economist (10-02-11) IMPERIALISM and oceanography often go hand in hand. The British Admiralty’s surveys of the world’s coastlines and shallow seas during the 18th and 19th centuries brought [...]
SOURCE : EFE (17-02-11) According to ANP, Brazil’s oil regulator, the South American country’s total reserves, which also include probable and possible reserves, soared 34.57 percent to 28.47 billion barrels. It [...]
SOURCE : The Jamestown’s Foundation (17-02-11) Russia seems to have found a place to deploy its two most modern French-built assault helicopter-carrying ships – in the Far East to help defend [...]
SOURCE : Ria Novosti (16-02-11) The Russian Coast Guard denied Japanese media reports on Wednesday that it had opened fire on a Japanese fishing vessel off the disputed South Kuril islands. Kyodo [...]
SOURCE : Reuters (16-02-11) NICOSIA, Feb 16 (Reuters) – U.S. energy company Noble Energy Inc (NBL.N: Quote) will expedite plans to drill for natural gas off Cyprus, where it believes there [...]
SOURCE : Ria Novosti (15-02-11) The newly reopened issue of the Russian-Japanese territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands stems primarily from the two countries’ current domestic problems; but if we look [...]
SOURCE : Ria Novosti (15-02-11) The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denied on Tuesday rumors that Ukraine was ready to make concessions to Russia on maritime border delimitation. The Ukrainian-Russian border in the Kerch [...]
SOURCE : Mercopress (15-02-11) Defence minister Arturo Puricelli said Monday that Argentina “has no conflict hypothesis with countries from the region” and thanked the “strong support” from his visiting Brazilian peer [...]
SOURCE : Ria Novosti (12-02-11) Some 7,500 Japanese nationals want to move to the Kuril Islands, disputed between Japan and Russia, Japan’s Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara has said. “Speaking about the four [...]
SOURCE : The Barents Observer (11-02-11) At least 150,000 tons of oil, 400,000 tons of gas condensate and 600,000 tons of iron ore are planned shipped along the Northern Sea Route [...]
SOURCE : Ria Novosti (11-02-11) La nouvelle dégradation des relations entre la Russie et le Japon sur le problème des îles Kouriles pourrait se poursuivre. Les autorités russes se sont sérieusement [...]
SOURCE : Reuters (11-02-11) MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia and Japan crossed swords publicly Friday over Moscow’s invitation for China and South Korea to invest in an island chain at the center [...]
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