Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Taiwan Urges China to Halt Increased Military Activities

Taiwan Urges China

Report cites 103 Chinese military aircraft near Taiwan, a recent high. Chinese fighter jets breached the informal median line in the strait. Other aircraft crossed the Bashi Channel, south of Taiwan. Taiwan’s defense ministry has issued a call to China on Monday, urging them to cease their “disruptive, one-sided actions” following a significant increase in … Read more

Gullah Geechee Fight to Protect US Island

Island

Ed Atkins, an African-American fisherman belonging to the Gullah Geechee community on South Carolina’s Saint Helena Island, faces the harsh reality of climate change. For over six decades, fishing has been an integral part of his culture and sustenance, but rising temperatures and housing developments have put his way of life at risk. Climate change … Read more

Taiwan revealed record number of Chinese vessels in area of island

Chinese vessels island Taiwan

Taiwan revealed record number of Chinese vessels in area of island. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry reported a record number of 16 Chinese warships in waters around the island within a 24-hour period late last week. Analysts interpret this as a continued intimidation campaign by China’s ruling Communist Party against Taipei. The activity of the People’s Liberation … Read more

Solomons PM Sogavare says foreign base would make it a military target

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Solomons Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare says the Solomon Islands will not host a foreign military facility. The Solomon Islands signed a secret security deal with China. Pacific leaders met this week to discuss security and competition between the US and China in the region. SUVA, Fiji: Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said Thursday that the Solomon … Read more

US urges Sri Lanka peaceful power transfer amid widespread protests

sri lanka

The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka has called for a peaceful transfer of power within the country’s constitutional framework. Julie Chung also condemned all violence and demanded that the rule of law be preserved in the crisis-stricken island nation. She urged all parties to work together to bring economic and political stability to the country. … Read more

Coleman, Hobbs come out on top in 100 meters races at NYC Grand Prix

Coleman

Christian Coleman wins men’s 100m and Aleia Hobbs wins ladies’ 100m at the NYC Grand Prix in New York. “I felt like that was a great race,” said Coleman, who took third at the Prefontaine Classic last month. “I felt quite a bit improved in the final part of my race than I did last … Read more

Cuban couple’s exile reflects disillusioned generation

Cuban

Raul Prado and Aidana Hernandez believed in change until recently. Cuba was allowing internet access, and there was a sense of liberation in the air. However, authorities quickly tightened the valve, and the two artists have now joined thousands of other young educated people in fleeing the island nation, where an economic crisis has aided … Read more

Pope to visit Canada in July amid schools abuse scandal

Pope

The Vatican announced Friday that Pope Francis will visit Canada at the end of July to meet with Indigenous survivors of abuse at church-run residential schools. The 85-year-old, who will visit Edmonton, Quebec, and Iqaluit, apologised to Indigenous delegations who visited him at the Vatican last month over a scandal that has rocked the Catholic … Read more

Sri Lanka timeline of a crisis

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka has been involved in a profound political and economic crisis for the past two months, with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned on Monday. Food, fuel, and other basic necessities are in short supply in the island nation of 22 million people, causing widespread hardship and triggering weeks of major protests. After emerging from … Read more

Russia suspended from UN tourism body over Ukraine war

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The United Nations’ tourism body on Wednesday suspended Russia from the organization over its invasion of Ukraine, arguing that it had breached its statutes. Most of the 159 member states of the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) subsidized the flow, taken at a first-rate trendy meeting, said a spokesman for the Madrid-based totally body. The … Read more

Child confirmed dead as Japan boat accident toll rises to 11

Japan

Japanese rescuers on Monday confirmed the demise of a child in a weekend sightseeing boat accident, raising the death toll to a minimum of 11, as efforts to discover survivors endured. The Kazu I become wearing 24 passengers, inclusive of children and two teams, whilst it despatched a misery signal on Saturday afternoon because it … Read more

Three critically endangered Sumatran tigers killed in Indonesia

Indonesia

Three critically endangered Sumatran tigers had been discovered lifeless in western Indonesia on Sunday after being ensnared by traps, police said, dealing any other blow to the species’ hastily declining population. Rampant deforestation has decreased the tigers’ natural habitat and growing warfare with humans have left best several hundred of the endangered species remaining within the wild, … Read more

Fiji blocks Russian-linked superyacht

Fiji

Fiji’s government said Wednesday they’d blocked a superyacht reportedly owned by way of a sanctioned Russian oligarch from leaving the island nation’s waters. The Pacific state’s prosecution workplace stated in a statement despatched to AFP that the High Court had granted an order on Tuesday to prevent the posh yacht Amadea from departing. The yacht … Read more

First killing by police in Sri Lanka protests

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka police shot lifeless one guy and wounded 10 others on Tuesday in the first fatal conflict with demonstrators protesting the island nation’s crippling economic disaster. The island country is within the grip of its most painful monetary downturn given its independence in 1948, with intense shortages of important items together with gasoline and regular blackouts … Read more

Sri Lanka offers cash to families of civil war dead

sri lanka

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will pay small sums to the families of people who were killed or went missing in the carnage of the island nation’s decade-long civil war, authorities announced Tuesday. Successive Sri Lankan governments have faced international censure over the conflict, which ended in 2009 after the collapse of the minority Tamil separatist movement’s armed wing. … Read more

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka hikes rates

sri lanka

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s central bank hiked interest rates on Thursday in a bid to tame rampant inflation and discourage consumer spending as the country suffers a foreign currency shortage and teeters on the brink of default. The island nation of around 22 million has seen shortages of food and fuel as well as electricity rationing, … Read more

Fiji records 17 deaths as 3rd wave of COVID-19 hits island nation

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SUVA, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — Fiji has recorded five new COVID-19 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths in the country to 17 since the confirmation of the third wave of COVID-19. Fiji’s Permanent Secretary for Health James Fong said on Tuesday three of five new deaths were fully vaccinated, one man was not jabbed, … Read more

Cuba enters sixth day in a row with no COVID-19 deaths

Cuba

HAVANA, (Xinhua) — Cuba on Friday entered the sixth consecutive day with no deaths due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), keeping the pandemic death toll at 8,313, the Ministry of Public Health said. Tests did detect 73 new cases of infection in the past 24 hours, raising the country’s total caseload to 963,958 since … Read more

Solomon Islands lifts curfew as unrest subsides

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HONIARA: The Solomon Islands abruptly lifted a two-week-old curfew on the capital of Honiara Friday, as political tensions eased in the Pacific nation Royal Solomon Islands Police Commissioner Mostyn Mangau announced the lifting of restrictions, which included a ban on vessels entering the port of Honiara from neighbouring islands. “I would like to thank those … Read more

A small island in Corsica made from oyster shells

A small island in Corsica made from oyster shells

To the east, near the British Virgin Islands, is a place called Annie Gada, where a pile of oysters looks like a small island, and for hundreds of years fishermen have been throwing large oysters with roosters, and now millions of oysters have gathered here.

People also come to this area to eat oyster shells and its oysters are also thrown on the island. Although it is not a regular island, it has become a peninsula and now people from all over the world come to see it.

The island, made up of small and large oysters in the blue water under the blue sky, offers a beautiful view.

However, most oysters are broken because holes are drilled in them to get the meat out of them and once the oysters are broken, they become more prone to breakage.

These oysters also have an important history lesson. When experts extracted very old oysters from the bottom and found out their age through radiocarbon dating, some of the oysters were found to be 1245 years old.

It is believed that the ancient Arawak people had piled up oysters here.

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London: Napoleon Bonaparte’s Hair-Filled Hat Is Up for Auction

London: Napoleon Bonaparte’s Hair-Filled Hat Is Up for Auction

 The unique designed hat, which had two cornered he wore on the battlefield that made his substitutes recognize him easily. The auction house identified that the hat belonged to the famous tyrant is fascinating which is napoleons Bonaparte’s hat. When its holder saw some captions that suggested maybe it belonged to the Napoleon, As well, … Read more

Bitcoin family that is now storing BTC in secret vaults in 4 regions

Bitcoin

The family of Didi Taihuttu sold all of their assets and invested in bitcoin when it was approximately $900, it was a good investment.

The majority of their crypto money is being held in underground vaults in four regions.

“I have hidden the hardware wallets across several countries so that I never have to fly very far if I need to access my cold wallet, in order to jump out of the market,” clarified Taihuttu, so-called Bitcoin Family.

The family has two different places in Europe where they hide their crypto money, 2 in Asia, 1 in South America, and 6th in Australia.

The crypto money is not buried none of the locations are underground or on a small island. But they are concealed in various ways and in multiple locations, such as self-storage sites from rented apartments and friends’ houses.

“I prefer to live in a decentralized world where I have the responsibility to protect my capital,” Taihuttu said.

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