The US issued a general license to allow for some Russian oil sales to India, giving the nation more options to purchase fuel as the war on Iran leads to a spike in global prices. bloom.bg/40N0IFC
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Azerbaijan's foreign ministry lodged an official protest with the Iranian embassy after a pair of Iranian drones flew across the border into Azerbaijan and injured two people at an airport in the Nakhchivan exclave. This edit contains profanity
An older trailer model of the Belgian transport company Van de Poel was used to hide Iranian missile launchers in Iraq.
Reminiscent of the Marshall McLuhan scene in Annie Hall, except the reporter had already asked the question.
🔊 People were placing bets on the timing of any US attacks on Iran, and on whether Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be ousted.' Listen to Asia markets correspondent Tom Westbrook on online prediction markets being used ahead of the Iran attacks reut.rs/3MZ6AIw
Entrepreneurial spirit is very much alive in the Middle East:
They've got him up there with Ben Franklin and MLK
As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in
Iranian state media confirmed the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei early on March 1, in air strikes by Israel and the US that pulverized his central Tehran compound. Follow the full coverage ➡️ reut.rs/4llpvKF
It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in Israeli and US strikes, Iranian state media confirmed. Follow our live coverage here: reut.rs/3OSg20V
Poland will boycott the opening ceremony of next month’s Winter Paralympic Games in protest over the decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete under their national flags.
It’s payback time for Trump’s tariff fiasco ft.trib.al/ZdEjScc | opinion
British far-right activist Tommy Robinson was hosted at the US state department on Wednesday, as the Trump administration seeks to cultivate closer ties with conservative and far-right groups across Europe
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A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...
Avec @cen4infores.bsky.social nous révélons qu'une entreprise européenne fournit des avions à la Birmanie, pourtant sous sanctions européennes.
Des appareils intégrés dans l'armée, comme le montrent les données ADSB, les images des planespotters et de ses employés.
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Russian state owned CMC's Russian flag handysize bulker Mikhail Nenashev, part of a smuggling op that has used falsified manifests & seaborne subterfuge to steal Ukrainian grain, transits Bosphorus en route from occupied Sevastopol to Alexandria carrying 27300t of plundered wheat. #T
While Georgia’s Prime Minister denies any wrongdoing, the EU is moving to blacklist the Kulevi terminal for sanctions evasion. The designation would cripple the logistics of the SOCAR-owned facility, making it "unattractive to international shipping."
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Tracing a ship's flag is often the first step toward uncovering bigger stories of corruption, smuggling, or sanctions evasion.
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Faster than TTNET
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
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“Renee Good born to die free / American mother of three / Seventh day January / A bullet for each child, you see / The colour of her eye / 930 Minneapolis / To desecrate domestic bliss / Three bullets blast, three babies kissed / Renee the domestic terrorist???" youtube.com/watch?v=Y3zi...
BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, BBC News reported reut.rs/4s0NSPL
A detainee died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Indiana on Monday, with the cause of death under investigation, ICE said, marking at least the seventh death in 2026 in federal immigration custody reut.rs/4aY1wgH
Russian Navy Project 20380, Baltic Fleet’s Stereguschiy class ASW corvette Stoikiy is pierside at Bandar Abbas, Iran for an unannounced port visit browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu?zoom=18&lat=...
“As if the Ministry of Truth in Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance is Strength,’ this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims -to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not”
Judge quotes Orwell’s 1984 as she orders Trump to restore slavery exhibits in Philly
“Even the hint that the family overseeing America’s most important newspaper could be implicated in a scandal involving sex crimes and intelligence services raises concerns.”
Read here open.substack.com/pub/borzou/p...
