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Eyes on the sea: companies compete for Australian maritime surveillance contract.

From South Korea to Kazakhstan via Northern Sea Route.

The captain of the Latvian tugboat Orkāns ("storm" in Latvian) could not believe his eyes when he saw a dozen physicists, engineers and technicians from four different European countries hastily working on the funnel of his vessel moored at the Riga Shipyard on the Baltic Sea. They were connecting a long pipe to a strange truck installed on shore. The reason for this turmoil is the choice of old and rusty Orkāns as a test-bed for the first futuristic experiment of cleaning the exhaust gas of a ship diesel engine, using a particle accelerator, with the goal of reducing the content of harmful pollutants.

Libyan Militia Boats Fire Shots to Warn Off NGO Rescue Teams.