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Dark finance: How Iran defies sanctions
CTech
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June 23, 2025
Since the United States withdrew from the nuclear agreement in 2018, Iran has developed extensive and sophisticated international networks of financial intermediaries - including shell companies, banks, and exchange offices - that have enabled it...
Analysis: Trump’s Mineral Policy Offers an Important Strategic Opportunity in the Pacific
The Virginia Star
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July 4, 2025
by Wyatt J. Greco In an April 2025 executive order, President Trump affirmed that offshore critical minerals are key to creating supply chains that do not depend on adversaries like the People’s Republic of China. While US leadership on deep-sea...
Pacific airlines team up for pilot cadetships, four countries sign new trade and healthy food deal
The New Zealand Herald
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July 4, 2025
The airlines said the programme would include “rigorous training, structured mentorship, and professional development to produce a pilot workforce trained to operate in complex and remote Pacific environments”. The two airlines said they would...
Inside the “shadow fleet” that financed Iranian terror cells worldwide
CTech
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June 22, 2025
The war with Iran raises concerns that the Revolutionary Guards may attempt to activate the global Islamic terror cells they established and funded through the Quds Force. These groups, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and others in Syria, have...
James Ellsmoor | International Sustainability Summits highlight benefits of collaboration, inclusivity
The Gleaner
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July 3, 2025
OVER THE course of the past few weeks, several major regional and international events focused on sustainability and the environment have served as a reminder that to achieve the prosperous future we want for local, regional, and global...
Expedition to set sail to Nikumaroro in search of Amelia Earhart's plane wreckage
KATU - Oregon
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Amelia Earhart's lost plane may have been found, and one expedition aims to answer that question once and for all. The expedition focuses on exploring an anomaly first spotted on satellite images of the lagoon of Nikumaroro...
Ani-One Asia Streams
Anime News Network
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Image via Dr. Stone anime's X/Twitter account©米スタジオ・Boichi／集英社・Dr.STONE製作委員会Ani-One Asia announced on Thursday and Friday that it will stream the Dr. Stone: Science Future (second part), Hotel Inhumans, With You and the Rain, Onmyō Kaiten...
OILING THE WHEELS OF TRADE How Russia Sidesteps Sanctions to Sustain Critical Oil and Gas Revenue
Europe Diplomatic Magazine
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July 3, 2025
The SCF Turgut oil tanker owned by Sovcomflot, a Russian state-owned shipping company © Sovcomflot We merrily pump it into the fuel tanks of our vehicles without really giving a thought to where it comes from. We should, perhaps, stop and think....
PRC Seeks Dominance in Submarine Power Cable Infrastructure
The Jamestown Foundation
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Executive Summary: Beijing is promoting cross-border power transmission projects, deploying its leading producers of submarine electric cables to deepen integration with other countries’ critical infrastructure. Orient Cables, a national champion...
Idaho Downwinders on track for compensation of impacts from nuclear fallout
ABC 6 - Idaho
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July 3, 2025
EMMETT, Idaho — The fight may be close to over for compensation for Idaho Downwinders after decades of suffering the effects of nuclear fallout. But that fight may not be over for everyone. I spoke with a leader of the movement to see what's next....
How Trump's big beautiful bill aims to 'supercharge' immigration enforcement
BPR News - North Carolina
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From an aerial view, the U.S.-Mexico border fence ends with a gap on Jan. 20, 2025 near Sasabe, Ariz. Republicans' tax and spending bill includes $46.5 billion for border wall projects. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption John...
IMO’s Crucial Moment: How Shipping Finally Started Tackling Climate Change
CleanTechnica
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June 19, 2025
In the wake of the International Maritime Organization’s vote to price carbon in shipping fuels, I had the opportunity to sit down with an insider and expert on maritime decarbonization, Tristan Smith. He’s the director of a maritime advisory...
A Mysterious Anomaly May Be Amelia Earhart’s Plane. This Team Is Racing to Prove It.
Yahoo News
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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Purdue University announced a plan to locate Amelia Earhart’s lost aircraft. Dubbed the Taraia Object Expedition, the effort will include a field team visiting the Pacific island Nikumaroro in...
Marrying ChatGPT: Is this the future of love?
Al Hakam
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June 22, 2025
Qasim Choudhary, Missionary, Marshall Islands I once thought humanity had reached the height of absurdity back in 2018, when a Japanese man named Akihiko Kondō famously married a hologram. But fast forward to the present, and I stand corrected....
Space Camp brings adventure to students
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 2, 2025
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Twenty young adventurers begin a journey to explore the future in the Rocket City. The students, recipients of an Air, Space, and Missile Defense Association scholarship, spent June 29-July 4 at Space Camp at the U.S. Space &...
Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill will slash health care for legal immigrants to pay for tax cuts
Arizona Mirror
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July 2, 2025
Provisions in the new tax and spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate early Tuesday would go even further than the House bill in removing health care and other benefits from immigrants with legal status. The House version of the massive tax and...
Oil supply growth outpaces demand as fossil fuel phaseout could fall short ahead of COP30
Energy Knowledge - Energy Institute
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Global oil supply increase is set to far outpace demand growth in the coming years, says the IEA Photo: Adobe Stock/Cherylvb With intensifying geopolitical strains and heightened uncertainty about global economic prospects, oil markets are...
AP Business SummaryBrief at 3:30 p.m. EDT
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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Trump says he’s ending trade talks with Canada over its 'egregious Tax' on technology firms WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s suspending trade talks with Canada over its plans to continue with its tax on technology firms. Trump...
Fire rages on cargo ship with smoke and ‘burning plastic’ smell engulfing Hull
The Independent
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June 27, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Health care would be slashed even for immigrants with legal status under massive Senate bill
Alaska Beacon
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July 2, 2025
Provisions in the new tax and spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate early Tuesday would go even further than the House bill in removing health care and other benefits from immigrants with legal status. The House version of the massive tax and...