Iran faces mounting financial pressure as US officials report $25 billion in lost oil revenue, $350 million in crypto frozen and militias sending funds back to the IRGC Iran is facing mounting financial pressure after nine months of war, with a US naval blockade costing it $25 billion in lost oil revenue and $350 million…
Zelensky called his EU counterparts “real leaders” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday sharply criticised US President Trump’s diesel deal with Russia, saying it would send cash back to Moscow, and accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of reducing peace negotiations to a “parody”.Speaking at an EU summit in Brussels, Zelenskyy said Russia did not want…
Archaeologists working with Indigenous rangers have documented two underwater sites off Murujuga in Western Australia, uncovering evidence of how First Nations communities used the landscape before rising sea levels submerged it thousands of years ago. The findings, reported by ABC News and detailed in a new study published in Quaternary Science Reviews, expand on earlier…
Five women of Trump world who dominated headlines. Anthony Scaramucci served as White House communications director for 11 days, from July 21 to July 31, 2017. The record of the shortest tenure in the Trump world is likely to be broken by Katie Zacharia, the new press secretary who was panned on the very first…
Indianapolis has begun removing the Emrichsville Dam from the White River, ending more than a century of disruption to the river’s natural flow and aquatic habitats. According to The Indianapolis Star, the project is intended to improve conditions for wildlife and make the waterway safer for people. The US Fish and Wildlife Service and the…
Pic credit: Zillow/ OneKey MLS David Ingram, a wellness guru and entrepreneur, has listed his New York residence for $19.5 million, according to a report by Mansion Global. The Toronto-based founder of Sweat and Tonic’s Hudson Valley home is one of only two standalone houses in the world designed by Aston Martin and its partners….
Photo credit (L-R): Wikimedia commons; Compass.com A historic Tudor Revival estate at 520 Foothill Road in Ojai has sold for $4.6 million after being listed for $6.495 million. The 3,474-square-foot home was commissioned in 1928 for silent-screen star Estelle Clark and designed by architect Austin Pierpont, later becoming the home of composer Leo Robin. According…
A conservation group in California has filed a lawsuit to stop plans for permanent roads and utility lines across a newly created 402-acre nature preserve. The legal action comes four years after the land was saved from housing developers. Placer Land Trust filed the lawsuit to block infrastructure construction through Clover Valley, an area of…
Consular posts in India are asking for recently dated employment verification letter from H-1B visa applicants. Immigration lawyer Gnanamookan Senthurjothi alerted Indian H-1B visa applicants with long-pending administrative processing that the consular posts have been requesting some documents from some applicants while seeking their passports for final adjudication. He advised not to misrepresent anything at…
Nueces County leaders have voted unanimously to award a $1.3 million contract to demolish the historic 1914 Nueces County Courthouse in downtown Corpus Christi. The decision brings nearly five decades of debate over the deteriorating building closer to an end. The Nueces County Commissioners Court approved a plan that allows contractors to remove asbestos and…
