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☆ Pro-Putin operatives in Germany work to turn Berlin against Ukraine
  + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +17 min
Now the main Russian Cossack organisations are loyal to Putin, and they are fighting alongside Russia’s forces in Ukraine. He is regularly pictured on his and other social media pages at Cossack gatherings, often wearing Cossack military uniform. Felk has worked as a security guard and has run a logistics firm, according to posts on Felk’s OK social media account. Photos shared by Kharkovsky on social media show him and other participants standing in front of a Great Don Army flag. Eremenko confirmed to Reuters that he worked for Russian military intelligence, the GRU.
☆ In Peru's hills, an artisanal miner boom frustrates Big Copper's plans
  + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Marco Aquino Marcelo Rochabrun | Marco Aquino | Marcelo Rochabrun | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +9 min
Small-scale copper miners are now challenging Big Copper for territorial control of rich deposits of the red metal. In Peru, artisanal mining permits have doubled to 80,000 since 2020, government records show. Peru's leftist administration presented a new framework for artisanal mining last week that declared artisanal mining is "as important" as big mining. "Where we have concessions we can't have (artisanal mining permits)," Rojas said. The number of valid artisanal mining permits in Tapairihua has fallen from 100 to 32 since May, according to government records.
☆ A picture and its story: Fire-bombing of a seaside English migrant centre
  + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Nicholls was driving away from the centre when he heard the bang. He saw a man in a checked shirt sliding plastic canisters of flammable liquid, attached to lit fireworks, along the ground towards the facility. [1/7] A man throws an object out of a car window next to the Border Force centre after a firebomb attack in Dover, Britain, October 30, 2022. Seconds later, Nicholls heard two more bangs and saw smoke coming from a nearby petrol station. The police arrived on the scene at the same time and later covered the car and body with a tarpaulin.
☆ Turks and Caicos Islands brace for Hurricane Fiona after it slams Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Ivelisse Rivera Ezequiel Abiu Lopez | Ivelisse Rivera | Ezequiel Abiu Lopez | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Workers remove utility poles in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona in Higuey, Dominican Republic, September 19, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo RojasSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico/SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Residents were ordered to take shelter on the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday as an increasingly powerful Hurricane Fiona churned towards the Caribbean archipelago, leaving death and destruction in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. In Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, residents were still facing strong winds, frequent lightning and heavy rain on Monday. Fiona made landfall in Puerto Rico on Sunday afternoon, dumping up to 30 inches (76.2 cm) of rain in some areas, with at least two people killed. Fiona made landfall in the Dominican Republic near Boca Yuma at 3:30 a.m. local time on Monday, according to the NHC.
☆ Hurricane Fiona slams Dominican Republic after leaving Puerto Rico mostly without power
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Ivelisse Rivera Ezequiel Abiu Lopez | Ivelisse Rivera | Ezequiel Abiu Lopez | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
People clear a road from a fallen tree after Hurricane Fiona affected the area in Yauco, Puerto Rico September 18, 2022. Hurricane Fiona made landfall in Puerto Rico on Sunday afternoon, five years after the U.S. Caribbean territory was ravaged by Hurricane Maria. "The strongest winds are already dying down and it's already over the Dominican Republic." The eye of Fiona made landfall in the Dominican Republic near Boca Yuma at 3:30 a.m. local time, the NHC said. Rainbands could follow the storm system on the east side of Puerto Rico for hundreds of miles, NHC's Blake said.
☆ Hurricane Fiona swamps Puerto Rico, knocking out power to island
  + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Ivelisse Rivera Ezequiel Abiu Lopez | Ivelisse Rivera | Ezequiel Abiu Lopez | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico/SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Hurricane Fiona left most of Puerto Rico without power on Sunday, causing catastrophic flooding and landslides on the island before barreling toward the Dominican Republic, a government agency said. "This has been catastrophic," Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi said at a news conference in the capital San Juan. The center of the storm made landfall on the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico near Punta Tocon at 3:20 p.m. Electricity had been out completely across the island of 3.3 million people, said LUMA Energy, operator of the island's grid, and the Puerto Rico power authority. 1/16 A man walk past an electricity pole that was damaged by Hurricane Fiona in Yauco, Puerto Rico September 18, 2022.
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