Великобритания передаст Маврикию суверенитет над островами, входящими в архипелаг Чагос, располагающийся в Индийском океане. Об этом сообщает агентство Reuters.
В то же время важной частью соглашения выступает сохранение на 99 лет британского и американского военного присутствия на военной базе на острове Диего-Гарсия. По словам министра иностранных дел Великобритании Дэвида Лэмми, база имеет стратегическое значение, в том числе и потому, что она сыграла важную роль в проведении операций Вашингтона и Лондона в Ираке и Афганистане - с ее территории взлетали дальние бомбардировщики.
Великобритания передаст Маврикию суверенитет над островами, входящими в архипелаг Чагос, располагающийся в Индийском океане. Об этом сообщает агентство Reuters.
В то же время важной частью соглашения выступает сохранение на 99 лет британского и американского военного присутствия на военной базе на острове Диего-Гарсия. По словам министра иностранных дел Великобритании Дэвида Лэмми, база имеет стратегическое значение, в том числе и потому, что она сыграла важную роль в проведении операций Вашингтона и Лондона в Ираке и Афганистане - с ее территории взлетали дальние бомбардировщики.
Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. This provided opportunity to their linked entities to offload their shares at higher prices and make significant profits at the cost of unsuspecting retail investors.
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