How the Baltic Sea became the ideal setting for a wartime mystery

More than 15 years ago, when the Nord Stream gas pipeline between Russia and Germany was little more than an idea, a Swedish government study warned of the risks inherent in running a critical piece of energy infrastructure along the Baltic Sea floor. The pipeline would be vulnerable to even the most rudimentary form of sabotage, analysts wrote, and underwater […]

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Middlemen charge NHS half a billion a year in fees for agency staff

Agency leeches are sucking NHS dry: Middlemen charge HALF A BILLION pounds a year to provide locum nurses and doctors… and one group of staff were even given free trip to the Caribbean Recruitment firms boasted record profits since the pandemic due to demand Comes as NHS faces staffing crisis with shortfalls of 12,000 hospital doctors  NHS England spent £3billion of […]

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Harvard professor: Llithium batteries are made from slave mines

Is YOUR new Christmas gadget actually from a Congolese cobalt slave mine? Harvard professor tells Joe Rogan ‘every phone, tablet, laptop and electric vehicle’ built relies on inhumane Chinese-controlled mines Joe Rogan hosted author Siddarth Kara on his podcast earlier this week  Kara claims there is no such thing as clean cobalt – ‘it’s all marketing’  He said almost  every […]

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Teenager dies, two injured in Christmas Day beach tragedy

A 19-year-old man has died, and another two were in hospital on Sunday night after a Christmas Day beach tragedy near Lorne on the Great Ocean Road. Police said two young men tried to assist, but all three found themselves struggling in waters on Victoria’s south-west coast shortly before 6pm. The group made it to shore, but collapsed on the […]

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Cost of servicing household debt set to reach £125BILLION in 2024

Ministers warned of a ‘ticking time bomb’ as the cost of servicing household debt in the UK is set to double to £125BILLION between now and 2024 as mortgages soar Cost of servicing household debt in Britain set to double to £125billion in 2024 OBR figures say debt costs will take up 7.5% of households’ disposable income Ministers are being […]

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Fiji MPs end 10 days of uncertainty by voting in new prime minister

Wellington: Sitiveni Rabuka became Fiji’s prime minister on Saturday after a coalition of parties voted to install him, signalling an end to Frank Bainimarama’s 16 years in power. The appointment of Rabuka ends 10 days of uncertainty after an election delivered a hung parliament. Fiji’s Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) on Friday voted to form a coalition with Rabuka’s People’s […]

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