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Seized Russian Super Yacht Sells For $US67 Million, Bumping Up Host Country’s Entire GDP
The Caribbean country of Antigua and Barbuda finally unloaded a Russia superyacht seized by feds around the start of the invasion of Ukraine and it just made the tiny country a pretty penny: $US63 million in profit, or about four per cent of its Gross Domestic Product.
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The U.S. Now Blames an Unnamed Pro-Ukrainian Group for Blowing up the Nord Stream Pipeline
Several weeks after a journalist accused the U.S. government of being behind the Nord Stream pipeline’s destruction, sources within the government are telling the New York Times that a “pro-Ukrainian group” is actually responsible for the brazen act of international sabotage.
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Record Number of Countries Blocked the Internet in Blackouts in 2022
Governments in 35 countries shut down the internet for a record total of at least 185 times in 2022 alone, a new study shows. The New York-based watchdog group, Access Now, published the report on Tuesday noting that the rate of online shutdowns has not only skyrocketed but is lasting longer and are often targeting…
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Mapping Tech Deployed After Devastating Earthquakes Kills More Than 2,300 in Turkey and Syria
More than 2,300 people have been killed and thousands more injured in Turkey and Syria after a series of earthquakes hammered the region already beset by civil war and a refugee crisis on Monday, according to the Associated Press. Rescue workers and officials said that, as evening fell, hundreds more people remain trapped under the…