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British Royal Marines carried out the first operation of its kind, boarding a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the English Channel. Commandos, with National Crime Agency officers, boarded the vessel Smyrtos in a six-hour operation early on Sunday. The tanker, which sails under a Cameroon flag, will now be held and monitored off the south coast of England.
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