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Quills and conflict: How protection in the Strait of Hormuz is bought and sold

By Hanna Ziady, CNN Inside a futuristic building in central London, leather-bound tomes contain quill-and-ink records of vessels lost at sea over the past 250 years. An entry in one of hundreds of such “Loss Books” details the demise of the Titanic in April 1912. More than 100 years later, entr...

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