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Who is Messina Denaro, Italys Mafia boss caught after 30 years? Italian police on Monday arrested Matteo Messina Denaro, the country’s most wanted Mafia boss, who had spent 30 years on the run.
Messina Denaro is accused of being a ruthless assassin whose violence fuelled the bloody reputation of the Cosa Nostra Mafia.
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WorkHe fled Russia's draft, now he's stranded in a South Korean airport/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/PSLNVWCCE5MNDMYHBN3HWWEGGU.jpg) For two months now, 23-year-old Russian Vladimir Maraktayev has been living in an airport departure lounge.
WorkRussia begins criminal case against US citizen for suspected espionage A number of US citizens have been detained on criminal charges in Russia in recent years, with some ultimately freed in exchange for Russians detained in the United States. In December, the US basketball star Brittney Griner was freed after being sentenced to nine years in prison on drug charges.
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WorkThe US is surpassing Russia as Europe's top energy supplier “The market adjustment since December has been smooth, largely because oil prices have been dragged down by poor macroeconomic conditions,” Cahill said. “But the market is likely to tighten later this year, and it’s not clear how widely the price cap has been adopted, so it’s too early to celebrate.”
WorkCIA director briefed Zelensky on US expectations for Russia's battlefield planning | CNN Politics The Biden administration, though, remains in a standoff with Germany over whether to send tanks to Ukraine, with German officials having indicated in recent days that they won't send their Leopard tanks to Ukraine, or allow any other country with the German-made tanks in their inventory to do so, unless the US also agrees to send its M1 Abrams tanks to Kyiv.
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WorkC.I.A. Director Visited Kyiv for Meeting With Zelensky The visit comes at an crucial point in the war. Ukraine is pushing for more heavy Western weapons, the Russian military has changed its general in command, and the war has ground into a stalemate over the winter, outside of the fighting in and around Bakhmut.
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WorkDefensive missile systems erected on Moscow rooftops “Russia has long given a very high priority to maintaining advanced ground-based air defences, but it is increasingly clear that it is struggling to counter air threats deep inside Russia,” the UK defence ministry wrote last year, a day after the explosions at Russia’s Engels airbase.
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WorkWork | � | | WorkWork | � | | WorkWork | � | | WorkWork | � | | WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkHow Beijing Sees Biden For decades, Chinese leaders thought they knew the man who would become Americas 46th president. But he was changing all along. WorkWorkWorkStockport hospital failed woman who took poisonous substance, inquest finds In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org. WorkFlorida Rejects A.P. African American Studies Class Henry Louis Gates Jr., a former chair of Harvard’s department of African and African American studies and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, who was a consultant to the College Board as it developed the A.P. course, said last year that he hoped the curriculum would not shy away from such debatable topics — not as a framework, but as a way of studying different theories of the African American experience. WorkWorkCopilot lands $10M to help service businesses build digital customer experiences “When the pandemic first started, the most immediate effect was companies closing their physical offices and investing more in their online presence, online customer acquisition and new software. Many companies tried to reinvent themselves as online-first businesses, which is why there’s now this big trend toward building these online, modern, customer-centric and highly automated businesses,” Misra said. “The economic slowdown in the economy that succeeded the pandemic exacerbated the need to be efficient. And here, we saw companies once again looking for more ways to automate and find more ways to consolidate their software stack. That’s benefitting us.” WorkPitch Deck Teardown: Scrintal's $1M seed deck One of the big things investors are looking for when evaluating a startup is whether it is able to gradually de-risk what it is doing, stage by stage. A million dollars isn’t a huge fundraising round by most standards, and the company is likely at the earliest stages of its value-creation journey. That means that the deck needs to make something pretty clear: What is it doing in the current stage to prove some of its hypotheses? Sadly, the Scrintal deck is a little lacking on that front. WorkConnect and collaborate with new founders at TechCrunch Early Stage 2023 ( function() {var func = function() {var iframe = document.getElementById(\'wpcom-iframe-993d01d25859c24ae22ff27863e93e71\')if ( iframe ) {iframe.onload = function() {iframe.contentWindow.postMessage( {\'msg_type\': \'poll_size\',\'frame_id\': \'wpcom-iframe-993d01d25859c24ae22ff27863e93e71\'}, \"https:\\/\\/tcprotectedembed.com\" );}}// Autosize iframevar funcSizeResponse = function( e ) {var origin = document.createElement( \'a\' );origin.href = e.origin;// Verify message originif ( \'tcprotectedembed.com\' !== origin.host )return;// Verify message is in a format we expectif ( \'object\' !== typeof e.data || undefined === e.data.msg_type )return;switch ( e.data.msg_type ) {case \'poll_size:response\':var iframe = document.getElementById( e.data._request.frame_id );if ( iframe && \'\' === iframe.width )iframe.width = \'100%\';if ( iframe && \'\' === iframe.height )iframe.height = parseInt( e.data.height );return;default:return;}}if ( \'function\' === typeof window.addEventListener ) {window.addEventListener( \'message\', funcSizeResponse, false );} else if ( \'function\' === typeof window.attachEvent ) {window.attachEvent( \'onmessage\', funcSizeResponse );}}if (document.readyState === \'complete\') { func.apply(); /* compat for infinite scroll */ }else if ( document.addEventListener ) { document.addEventListener( \'DOMContentLoaded\', func, false ); }else if ( document.attachEvent ) { document.attachEvent( \'onreadystatechange\', func ); }} )(); WorkDry-cleaning robotics startup Presso pulls in another $8M In additional to developing its own hardware and leasing its machines, Presso is creating other key pieces of the puzzle, including a newer, greener fluid for the dry-cleaning process. “We had chemical engineers to develop our own liquids,” says Jain. “They’re far more organic; 70% of the industry still uses industrial solvents. We invented something that is orders of magnitudes better than we’ve ever seen.” WorkFintech in 2022: A story of falling funding, fewer unicorns and insurtech M&A Got a news tip or inside information about a topic we covered? We’d love to hear from you. You can reach me via Signal at 408.404.3036. Or you can drop us a note at tips@techcrunch.com. If you prefer to remain anonymous, click here to contact us, which includes SecureDrop (instructions here) and various encrypted messaging apps. WorkWorkLink raises $30M to help merchants accept direct bank payments With the funds from the recently closed Series A, Shoykhet says that Link will launch account verification, which will verify bank accounts and ownership information to bring merchants in compliance with Nacha’s new account validation rule. (Nacha is the organization that manages the development and governance of the ACH network.) WorkAmerica Hit Its Debt Limit, Setting Up Bitter Fiscal Fight Ms. Jean-Pierre reiterated on Wednesday that Mr. Biden would not negotiate over a debt-limit increase. Asked if she believed Republicans saw it as their responsibility to raise the limit and avoid a default, she replied, “They should.” WorkThe US hit the debt ceiling. What happens next? We usecookiesand other data for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure,personalising content and ads, providing social media features and toanalyse how our Sites are used. WorkThe FTC may ban non-compete clauses. Here's what workers think about that “Non-complete clauses in my husband’s employment contracts have cost my family tens of thousands of dollars over the years. For us, a middle-class income family, banning non-compete clauses would offer opportunities for my husband to advance his career without these major financial roadblocks. It would also save the government on unemployment benefits during the time workers are not allowed to work in their own field. Imagine that, wanting to work, being great at your job, being wanted by another employer, but being forbidden to change jobs. It’s the opposite of the American dream.” — Susan Wheeler, Montana WorkWorkWorkNew FTX boss John Ray could bring back bankrupt crypto firm In December, the 30-year-old was extradited from the Bahamas, where FTX was based, back to the US where he formally pleaded not guilty to charges of defrauding customers and investors. He was released on $250m bail, denying the allegations. |
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