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The Philippines, on the western border of the South China Sea, also reported Chinese boats cutting cables of a survey ship and threatening to ram its boats in March, according to Manila's Foreign Ministry.
CNN: Explainer: South China Sea - Asia's most dangerous waters
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Its leader, Aslan Abashidze, runs an odd and throughly autocratic mini-state, Ajaria, on the Black Sea border with Turkey.
ECONOMIST: Ukraine and Georgia
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Sitting on the border between two former Soviet states, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest inland sea in the world.
NPR: Book Takes Wide-Angle View of a Changing Planet
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On 29 May, Russia began construction of what is planned to be the largest commercial port on the Baltic Sea at Ust-Luga, adjacent to the Russian-Estonian border.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Harbinger of Things to Come? Russian Energy Sector Imposes Boycott on Estonia after Getting U.S. Aid
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He was expected first to focus on bolstering the ceasefire, channelling reconstruction aid through the Fatah-run PA rather than Hamas, and on measures to stop arms reaching Gaza via tunnels under the border with Egypt or by sea from Iran.
ECONOMIST: Diplomacy after the Gaza war
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The report calls on a specific budgetary allocation for the Black Sea strategy, with a priority on funding small-scale development projects and cross-border co-operation.
BBC: Black Sea strategy