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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 25

Huge fire near Saudi F1 track as Yemen rebels attack oil facilities

China Sees ‘Unprecedented’ Capital Outflow Since War, IIF Says

Australia alarm over China security deal with Solomon Islands

The coming federal weaponization of banking

“Mega Emergency” Unfolds For World’s Top Coffee Growers As Fertilizer Costs Spike

US, Nato prepare for Russian nuclear incident

Disney Launching Task Force to Make More LGBTQ+ Content for Children and Families

As the NRA first noted, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has started revoking licenses of gun dealers for the most minor paperwork errors – errors that never led to license revocations until Biden took office.

A novel class of bed net that kills mosquitoes resistant to traditional insecticides by making them unable to move or fly, significantly reduces malaria infection in children

Inside Ukraine’s army of misfits, veterans, and war tourists in the fight against Russia

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 24

The biggest news from the front-line in Ukraine today is that the Russian Navy has lost one of its major landing ships

Three people describe how they escaped from ‘hell’

The Biden Administration Tells Industry to Prepare for Russian Cyber Attacks

Israel Trying to Convince US to Sell F-15s to Egypt

HOW TO MAKE CRIME VANISH

Arabs denounce ‘double standard’ of Russia sports bans

Photog Speaks Out After She Says NBC Edited Her Photos To ‘Soften’ Look Of Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 23

How One Bad Teacher Almost Destroyed a New Mexico Family Using the State as a Weapon

“Critical” Damage At CPC Terminal Could Take 1 Million Bpd Offline

Ukraine Says Russia Accidentally Bombed Its Own Rosneft Refinery

Dozens of foreign Protestant missionaries have been forced to leave Turkey based on intelligence reports classifying them as security risks.

Did the true number of Russian troop deaths in Ukraine just leak?

Lebanon’s wheat importers have not placed any new orders on the global market since Russia invaded Ukraine three weeks ago and have started rationing what they sell to supermarkets amid widespread panic-buying, millers told The National on Wednesday.

Bird Flu Case Forces Killing of 5.3 Million Chickens in Iowa

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 22

Discussions of the spread of the war in the Ukraine into greater Europe creating a Third World War miss the point of the nature of modern warfare in the post-globalisation age: the war already encompasses the world in terms of the global economic system.

China’s Shifting Stance on Ukraine

James Webb teams successfully align mirror, commissioning continues

Russia Cuts Refinery Output As Diesel Shortage Worsens

Mostly noteworthy because of who is saying it. Alcohol Killed More Under-65 Americans Than COVID in 2020

New York City Prosecutors Quitting In Droves

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 21

The stock market liked the Fed’s plan to raise interest rates. It’s wrong.

Is Zelensky’s party crackdown his first mistake?

The Resilience of the Internet in Ukraine

Russia not sending Syrians to Ukraine just yet, top US general says

American Airlines pilots want customers to know how bad things have gotten

SAN FRANCISCO’S OUT OF CONTROL CRIME NO LONGER DENIABLE

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 20

The apparent first use of Russia’s air-launched hypersonic ballistic missile against a target in Ukraine doesn’t all add up.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE ACCIDENTAL INDIAN MISSILE LAUNCH

Ukraine joins European power grid, ending its dependence on Russia

Top Soy Shipper Argentina Halts Meal, Oil Cargoes as Prices Jump

CDC Says It Accidentally Inflated Children’s COVID Death Numbers In ‘Coding Logic Error’

COVID’s coming back in Europe. Are we next?

The Big Men’s Fashion Trend of 2022? Dressing Like a Tween.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 19

Western theories re Soviet ‘rationality’ and nuclear strategy/ deterrence were revealed post-91 to be overconfident & wrong

Putin’s full speech in English

Anatomy of the Hong Kong Disaster

A senior Times journalist has been caught on tape admitting his paper overreacted to the Capitol riot.

The things we don’t know

Overshadowed by the conflict in Ukraine, aid-starved Yemen — already suffering the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, according to the UN — is on the verge of total collapse.

Wounded Russian soldiers fill Belarusian hospitals

A judge has ruled that Telegram ignored repeated orders to stop the spread of disinformation.

Saudi crude supplies to market at pre-pandemic levels, as exports, refinery runs increase

Egyptian archaeologists discover five tombs at Saqqara

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 18

Is something up in Russia?

The neon shortage is a bad sign

Looming food shortages is the next ‘slow-moving disaster’ to hit world

Parts of Spanish Economy Grind to a Halt After Five Day Nationwide Truckers’ Strike

New Hampshire Votes for Pharmaceutical Freedom

Restrictions aimed at containing a COVID-19 outbreak in northeast China have impacted crude discharging and land transportation at Yingkou port, slowing feedstock deliveries to at least one refinery in the area,

Deadly form of skin cancer ‘overdiagnosed’ in some patients

Maryland Takes a Stand Against the College Credential

Another campus sexual assault cover-up in Virginia