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An inside look at a Myanmar online scam center that opened in 2024 with 3,500 workers from ~30 countries and closed in November 2025 after rebels captured it (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/world/a

At This Office Park, Scamming the World Was the Business
Times journalists got a rare look inside one of the compounds where the online fraud industry makes its billions. Inspirational slogans (“Keep going”) were just the start.

Why One World Cup Stadium Is the Exception to FIFA’s Rule https://www.nytimes.com/video/the-athletic/100000010835099/why-one-world-cup-stadium-is-the-exception-to-fifas-rule.html

Осужденный преступник незаконно отдал приказ направить на Ближний Восток 2500 морских пехотинцев и десантный корабль после почти двух недель незаконной войны.
https://mastodon.world/@somecanuckchick/116224525207399443

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John F. Burns, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times foreign correspondent who reported from South Africa, Iraq, and other bureaus, dies at 81 (Alan Cowell/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/world/j

John F. Burns, Prize-winning Foreign Correspondent for The Times, Dies at 81
In a 40-year career that brought him two Pulitzers, he reported from trouble spots around the world, eloquently conveying the chaos of war.

Hopefully some how, someway, we'll have a future and it will be like Star Trek.
Speaking of which I am really excited to find out that Thomas Jane, who played Joe Miller in The Expanse, my other favorite Science Fiction TV, will be playing Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the final episode of Series 5 of Star Trek: Next Generation!
Unfortunately even though its in production now, it won't be shown for at least 1 years from now (Season 4 is supposed to come out some time this year).
#StarTrekSNW #TheExpanse
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/characters/nm0005048/?ref_=tt_cst_c_10
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-ending-alex-kurtzman-thomas-jane-bones-perfect/
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-bones-thomas-jane-spinoff-good-news/

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Surging energy costs have choked the economies of megacities and rural areas across South Asia, where many live on daily wages with little to no savings to cushion sudden rising costs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/world/asia/pakistan-oil-prices.html

Surge in Oil Prices Shakes Pakistan’s Already Fragile Economy
Families preparing for Eid al-Fitr and farmers ready for harvest are being squeezed in a country that gets nearly all its oil through the Persian Gulf.

Tailings dams
– repositories of mining waste that is often toxic and stored under water
– litter landscapes around the world.
Often, they hold huge quantities of poisonous, harmful material .
While tailings dams are theoretically built to last for ever, more extreme weather driven by the climate crisis has changed the risk profile of many structures.
Flooding, intense rainfall and other weather extremes mean that many of them are more unstable, according to ex…

Across the Caribbean and Latin America, something extraordinary and shameful is unfolding.
On Friday the Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez accused the US of “extorting” countries
by forcing them to cancel decades-old deals with Havana for the supply of doctors
Cuban doctors, emissaries of one of the world’s most besieged nations, are being expelled from host nations,
contracts terminated,
health programmes dismantled.
And, in their absence, the poore…