NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the alliance is launching a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region. Power and communications cables and gas pipelines stitch ...

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Power and communications cables and gas pipelines stitch together the nine countries with shores on the Baltic, a relatively shallow and nearly landlocked sea. A few examples are the 152-kilometer ...

23, 2025, on a NATO patrol over the Baltic Sea as part of the military’s alliance “Baltic Sentry” mission to protect undersea cables and pipelines from sabotage. (AP Photo/John Leicester) The ...

The alliance is responding to a concerning rise in incidents involving damage to vital energy and data cables and pipelines. The new mission, "Baltic Sentry," aims to deter and prevent future ...

Ensuring a safe and secure surrounding is a paramount necessity that can help provide peace of mind and better control. Installing CCTV cameras is thus an essential step towards maintaining ...

In a recent incident, a Chinese-owned cargo vessel, Shunxing-39, cut undersea fiber-optic cables near Taiwan’s Keelung Harbor. What does this signal to Taipei? The employment of third-country ...

On Christmas morning, Estonia’s power grid operators got an unwanted surprise: The Estlink 2 power cable linking them to Finland had failed. The outage left only the Estlink 1 cable in operation ...

An undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged on Sunday, likely as a result of external influence, Latvia said, triggering an investigation by local and NATO maritime forces ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An underwater data cable between Sweden and Latvia was damaged early on Sunday, in at least the fourth ...