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 Russian tanker on mercy mission to ice-bound Alaskan town - RT |
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The Renda has been assisted by the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy since the vessels left Dutch Harbor, Alaska. AFP PHOTO/ US COAST GUARD/Charly Hengen The Russian tanker Renda is pumping fuel to the shortage-hit town of Nome in Alaska.
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Tanker carrying fuel arrives at iced-in Nome, Alaska - USA TODAY |
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By Mary Pemberton, AP NOME, Alaska – Crews are laying the "icework" for the final leg of a Russian tanker's mission to deliver fuel to the Alaskan town of Nome, building a path over a half-mile of Bering Sea ice to lay a hose for the fuel transfer.
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Russian tanker completes Alaskan fuel delivery - Reuters |
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By Yereth Rosen | ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A Russian tanker finished pumping an emergency shipment of 1.3 million gallons of fuel to shore in the ice-bound port of Nome, Alaska, on Thursday and prepared to head home, officials said.
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How Syria differs from Libya - CNN (blog) |
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An Arab League monitoring mission is in abeyance, after a much criticized few weeks on the ground that drew ridicule even from within its own ranks and fury (for its perceived complacency) from protesters. And back in November, France floated the idea --
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The era of falling spacecraft - Aljazeera.com |
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After three months of floating helplessly in Earth's orbit after a botched launch, the Russian mission to the Martian moon Phobos re-entered the atmosphere, scattering its smouldering debris over the Pacific Ocean, somewhere off the coast of Chile.
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Coast Guard ice-cutter returns home after 254-day deployment - The Seattle Times |
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The Healy returned to Seattle after helping a Russian tanker deliver much-needed fuel supplies to iced-in Nome, Alaska. By Amy Martinez The Placido family, of Rainier, Ore., unites Sunday after dad Jon Placido and other crew members of the Coast Guard --
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RPT-FEATURE-Arctic ice melt lifts hopes for Russian maritime trade - Reuters |
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The relief mission through perilous, ice-choked seas was the first mid-winter fuel delivery to western Alaska, capping a year of pioneering shipping as oil and gas development and climate change increase traffic along northern trade routes sought by --
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Alaska ice mission: Renda, Healy arrive in open water - Alaska Dispatch |
Alaska Dispatch
The trans-ocean fuel mission that had never been done before and was successfully pulled off is nearing its end. A Russian-flagged fuel tanker, Renda, and a US Coast Guard cutter, Healy, were twin adventurers for the journey, which required the ships --
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As Arctic opens up, Coast Guard Academy ready to respond - TheDay.com |
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-- which he called an "emerging mission area for our country." "The most pressing requirement right now is we have oil companies that are going to start drilling offshore of the North Slope (of Alaska)," he said in a recent interview.
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Life on Venus? Russian scientist's claim proven false - msnbc.com |
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According to the Russian news service RIA Novosti, Leonid Ksanfomaliti, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences who worked on unmanned Soviet missions to Venus during the 1970s and '80s, has written a new article in the journal Solar System --
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