Tag: Years
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta Faces Worst Saltwater Intrusion in Years
A Crisis of Salinity Hits Vietnam's Agricultural Heartland Vietnam's Mekong Delta region is currently grappling with its most severe saltwater intrusion in decades, a phenomenon…
Brent Hinds Leaves Mastodon After 24 Years
Brent Hinds is out of Mastodon. The band that held the same four men for 24 years just broke that streak. March 15, 2025, marked the end of an era for a group t
Ratcliffe-on-Soar Ends UK Coal Era After 56 Years
Eight cooling towers and a 199-metre chimney have dominated the skyline near junction 24 of the M1 for fifty-six years. That skyline is about to change. Ratclif
Caroline Ellison Sentenced to 2 Years for FTX Fraud
The math behind the FTX collapse is staggering. Alameda Research owed $10 billion to FTX. That single figure, reported by the Wall Street Journal in November 20
Gaza Health Ministry Declares Polio Epidemic After 25 Years
Twenty-five years. That is how long the Gaza Strip had gone without a single case of polio. The virus was gone. Eradicated. Then, on July 16, 2024, it was back.
Conman Sentenced to 10 Years for $175M Psychic Fraud Scheme
A federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced Canadian-born conman Patrice Runner to 10 years in prison on 19 April 2024 for running a $175 million psychic-mail…
Sam Bankman-Fried Gets 25 Years for FTX Fraud
A federal judge handed Sam Bankman-Fried a 25-year prison sentence on March 28, 2024. The former crypto mogul was convicted on seven counts of fraud and conspir
Vatican Court Jails Cardinal Becciu 5.5 Years for Embezzlement
Five and a half years. That is the prison term a Vatican court handed down on December 16, 2023, to Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu. The sentence also includes
WHO Lifts COVID-19 Global Emergency After 3 Years
The end of a global public health emergency is not the end of a disease. That is the reality the World Health Organization has laid out with its decision to lif
Russian Court Sentences Ex-Journalist Safronov to 22 Years
Ivan Safronov was 30 years old when he was taken from his Moscow apartment on July 7, 2020. By then he had already spent years writing about the Russian militar





































