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Maritime Watch Monitor, 6 October 2026
Washington now has a ready-made shortlist for shadow-fleet sanctions, and Europe wrote most of it. A US law signed on 18 September lets the President treat an allied listing as prima facie evidence against a ship. The allies…
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