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A Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil capsized and sank off Manila on Thursday, authorities said, as they seek to contain a spill stretching several kilometres. IMAGES
Dozens of activists protest outside the Chinese Consulate in Manila as tensions between the two countries in the South China Sea grow. IMAGES
The United States demands that Iran immediately release a ship seized off Oman's coast in avowed retaliation for US actions. "The Iranian government must immediately release the ship and its crew. This unlawful seizure of a commercial vessel is just the latest behavior by Iran or enabled by Iran aimed at disrupting international commerce," State Department spokesman Vedant Patel tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Images released by the Armed Forces show a long slick of crude oil covering the sand and reaching the sea at a tourist beach in Esmeraldas province, northwestern Ecuador. According to state-owned company Petroecuador, the oil spilled onto Las Palmas beach in the city of Esmeralda, where an oil terminal and a refinery operate. IMAGES
A very large crude carrier the Nautica, which is part of a coordinated operation to remove oil from the FSO Safer, sits in Yemeni waters. In the coming days, an operation is expected to begin pumping 1.14 million barrels of crude oil to the Nautica from the FSO Safer, a rusting 47-year-old ship that the UN describes as a "ticking time bomb". IMAGES
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