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Trump Threatens New Russia Sanctions, 1.5 °C Warning, Starbucks Superyacht

Built by a Dutch company called Feedship that specializes in luxury super-yachts, American businessman and former Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz’s new 330-foot craft just grazes past in transport between the Woubrugsebrug Bridge in Woubrugge, Netherlands.

👋 Inuugujoq kutaa!* Welcome to Wednesday, where Donald Trump threatens new sanctions on Russia, the UN issues a grim climate report, and today’s quiz question comes to us from Fukushima, Japan. Meanwhile, Cairo-based Hagar Farouk looks at the quiet rise of “transactional marriage” in Egypt between older foreign women and much younger Egyptian men. [*Greenlandic] […]

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How Western Technology Is Keeping Russia Stocked With Drones

A masked Russian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) unit serviceman holds a copter
A Russian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) unit serviceman monitoring the route to Antonovka Road Bridge in Russia's Kherson Region, June 28, 2023 Alexei Konovalov/TASS

In spite of commonly-held beliefs that the Russian military is fighting with outdated weaponry and uncoordinated assaults, the truth is that complex weaponry is still making its war onto the Russian side on the front, even in spite of technology sanctions from the West.

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