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EU Is Launching A Mission To Board Russian Shadow Fleet Tankers In The Indian Ocean The European Union has authorized its naval mission in the Indian Ocean (apparently there is one) to stop and board Russian shadow fleet tankers suspected of operating under false flags, the bloc announced on Wednesday. The Spanish Navy frigate Santa María F81, deployed as part of the European Union Naval Force Operation ATALANTA, seen off the coast of Mogadishu, Somalia, on April 24, 2025. EU member states have authorized Operation Atalanta, the union’s counter-piracy naval mission off...

UK's Ofcom Investigates Airing Of Trump Interview Calling Climate Change A "Hoax" Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have been writing about the decline of free speech in the United Kingdom for years, including in my book The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.  One of the most critical components of the British censorship system is Ofcom, the Office of Communications, which regulates the broadcasting, internet, telecommunications, and postal industries. The most recent controversy is detailed in the Telegraph, with Ofcom investigating GB News over the simple replaying of a Trump interview in...

US Nuclear Recycling Plant Could Extract 100 Times More Energy From Uranium Fuel Authored by Georgina Jedikovska via Interesting Engineering, A US startup has joined forces with the nation's first national laboratory to recycle spent nuclear fuel into energy for fast reactors by using advanced pyroprocessing technology. New York-based nuclear technology company BLSK Energy announced on May 18 that it had signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in Illinois to commercialize the method. Used nuclear fuel containers. Pyroprocessing (or pyrochemical processing) is a high-temperature metallurgical process that...