territorial waters
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The Khoryv cargo ship, flying the Comoros flag, was "struck by a drone and sank near Romanian territorial waters", Dan said in a Facebook post.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Meeting with his security chiefs on Tuesday, Bulgaria's prime minister said: "Another attack on merchant ships in the immediate vicinity of Bulgarian territorial waters is absolutely unacceptable".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The Mariana Islands, Guam and American Samoa all want at least a temporary ban on deep-sea mining in their territorial waters.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Instead, Oman has been operating a channel through the strategic waterway that runs through its territorial waters and skirts the lanes managed by Tehran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
By the treaty of 1818 the Americans were definitely excluded from the territorial waters, but still they poached on Canada's preserves.
From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by Archibald MacMechan
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