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The captain of the Russian shadow-fleet oil tanker MV Smyrtos has been charged with contravening UK sanctions after a six-hour Royal Marines operation in the English Channel. The vessel remains detained off Weymouth with 24 crew aboard as the NCA says the captain violated sanctions by delivering oil from Russia, marking the first such armed-forces interception of a sanctioned vessel in UK waters.
A 27-year-old Sudanese man was arrested at the Manston processing centre in Kent on suspicion of endangering life after four people—two men and two women—died while trying to board a small boat to cross the English Channel near Calais. Thirty-eight people were returned to the French shore while 74 continued to the UK; investigators are interviewing those who made the journey as French prosecutors probe the boat’s launch, with the NCA assisting. Migration Minister Mike Tapp called every death a tragedy and said the Border Security Act strengthens powers to disrupt smuggling networks.