Since 2020, Azerbaijan has cleared nearly 3,000 km² of landmines, and repatriated almost 40,000 displaced people.
In numbers: 260,147 mines destroyed across Karabakh and East Zangezur, following the end of the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
De-miners used trained rats to help with removal; these animals are smart enough, and light enough, to detect the mines without setting them off.
Kenya has signed a $160 million deal to protect 173,000 km² of wilderness, roughly the size of Uruguay.
Donors, including heirs to the Walton and Cargill fortunes, put up about half; the government will match it over ten years, with payments tied to policy changes.
The first focus is Tsavo, home to 40% of Kenya’s elephants and a fifth of its black rhinos, and the Maasai Mara corridor to the Serengeti. #news #environment #wildlife #Nature #Africa #Kenya
https://www.businessday.co.za/world/africa/2026-10-21-kenya-seals-160m-conservation-finance-deal/
45-year-old Republican candidate in Iowa is being sued by his parents for $275,000 in unpaid rent.
The Des Moines Register reported that the parents of lieutenant governor nominee Derek Wulf allege that he stopped paying rent two years ago on the farmland he rented out from them. A court petition filed Tuesday demands repayment and also accuses him of lying about his assets in financial documents to a lender.
Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system.
"Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said.
An Obscure Livestock Virus Has Been Found in a Human for the First Time—and He Didn’t Survive
After sick corals were placed in direct contact with healthy ones of the same genetic makeup, they recovered at “incredible” speed, scientists found.
DEATH PENALTY IS DESERVED👇
CVS agreed to a $315 million settlement to resolve federal claims that it helped fuel the opioid crisis by haphazardly filling prescriptions for addictive painkillers from questionable sources.
https://www.courthousenews.com/cvs-to-pay-315-million-settlement-over-opioid-prescriptions/
One of the largest solar farms in the country just came online in Northwest Indiana. #solar #renewables #energy #ClimateChange #indiana
https://nwitimes.com/news/local/article_1be83b5c-57bf-4ed6-b649-feebd81aa959.html
New Mexico state court Judge Francis Mathew ordered DumFuckerberg”s Meta Platforms to pay a $25 billion civil penalty for misleading the public about Facebook's privacy practices after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The sum ranks among the largest ever handed down by an American court.
Dutch military intelligence flipped a Russian GRU hacker in 2017 and used him to reach a Russian server holding screenshots from Jared Kushner's iPhone.
By early 2018, according to Cole, the Dutch had cracked the device themselves and could watch Kushner's screen in real time.
What they saw was *Kushner logging into a UAE bank account stocked with hundreds of millions of dollars routed through a bank in Azerbaijan.*
The Saudi and Emirati royals ultimately put at least $2 billion into accounts tied to Kushner, including roughly $750 million at First Abu Dhabi Bank, where Kushner was a signatory on an account owned by an Emirati charity, and about $1 billion in Israel's Central Bank.
https://www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-kushner-hacked-phone-secret-negotiations
ROBBER BARONS = EPSTEIN CLASS
https://www.commondreams.org/news/itep-corporate-tax-avoidance
👀 Lindsey Graham was under FBI probe over a $10 MILLION contract and $100,000 in campaign donations.
MAGA MURDER Regime FBI fired investigators before bribery charges. Graham died. The investigation died under Senile Satan.
His sister and successor, Darline Graham, kept staff tied to the contracts.
https://bsky.app/profile/out5p0ken.bsky.social/post/3myihaoixps2n
A Venezuelan billionaire wanted a pardon so he gave a $50 Million BRIBE to Alina Habba
Julio Herrera Velutini, who was seeking clemency from the MAGA MURDER Regime, after facing bribery charges, hired Alina Habba, a former lawyer, from the Justice Department in a $50 million deal.
In exchange, Habba would serve as general counsel at a company set up by Herrera’s daughter.
Weeks after Habba started her work at the company, SENILE SATAN granted Herrera a full and unconditional pardon.
MAGA MURDERERS👇
Hegseth’s chaotic secret evacuation of a US base in Bahrain left military families in harm's way.
“They’re not telling the truth. They’re not telling the full story. They’re not telling how much damage there really was."
https://www.ms.now/news/military-families-retreat-navy-base-bahrain
Bank of America was ordered to pay $1.2 billion to the Treasury Department, after it was caught violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/corporations/bank-america-sanctions-violations-penalty-rcna603251
80% of voters want either complete and total upheaval or substantial change in how the country is run.
Hungary repealed its anti-LGBTQ+ laws, which were all passed by far-right PM Viktor Orbán.
The workers who wear Amazon vests and drive vans with the company’s logo aren’t legally employed by Amazon.
But that could change in NYC, under legislation that Teamsters and Amazon workers are organizing alongside the DSA to pass
The Delivery Protection Act would require Amazon, alongside FedEx and other companies, to directly employ drivers rather than rely on third-party subcontractors.
It would also establish safety, training, and labor standards for delivery drivers
https://labornotes.org/2026/10/amazon-package-drivers-rev-organizing-become-direct-employees