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​SENEGAL, Dakar -- A Panama-flagged oil and chemical tanker with documented links to Russia's so-called shadow fleet remained semi-submerged off the coast of Senegal on Monday, following the reported flooding of its engine room late last week. The 2009-built M/V Mersin, listed under Turkish-connected ownership and last departing the Russian export port of Taman, had been anchored outside Dakar for several days before it began taking on water between 27 and 28 November.

​RUSSIA, Novorossiysk -- A naval drone strike on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium's terminal on Russia's Black Sea coast has triggered a round of diplomatic unease across several capitals, after damage was confirmed at one of the facility's offshore loading units used for crude exports.

​PARIS, FRANCE -- France has resumed shipments of reprocessed uranium to Russia for the first time in more than three years, a move that has drawn environmental scrutiny and geopolitical eyebrows.

According to Greenpeace France, at least 10 marked containers of reprocessed uranium were observed being loaded at the port of Dunkirk and bound for the Russian port of Ust-Luga aboard the cargo vessel Mikhail Dudin. ​

By Martin Foskett | Newswire | Knelstrom Media