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Cargo ship, oil tanker collide in North Sea

Marianna Evenstein
March 11, 2025

A crew member is missing after a Portuguese cargo ship carrying toxic chemicals collided with an oil tanker carrying jet fuel for the US military off the coast of northeastern England.

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