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

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

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

More Palestinians die of starvation as famine spreads in Gaza – Middle East crisis live

🚨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...

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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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

⚓ 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

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

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

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

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

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

📍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

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

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