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Iranian - Israeli War News roundup for June 24th, 2025: Both Iran and Israel claim the win, but Iran arrested 700 for spying for Israel, hanged 3 more
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
🚨 Tulsa Juneteenth Homicide Suspect Arrested 🚨
Text taken from the Facebook page of Tulsa Police Department
Foto of the miscreant at the link.

On June 24, 2025, the Tulsa Police Department arrested 19-year-old Timetrious Moore for 2nd Degree Murder related to a tragic shooting that occurred during the Juneteenth celebration.

At approximately 10:50 PM on June 21st, a shooting took place near 300 N. Greenwood Avenue, resulting in the death of 22-year-old Isaiah Knight.

The Tulsa Police Department has been actively investigating this incident, utilizing multiple resources to locate the shooter. Through video surveillance, Detectives found footage showing the suspect shoot the victim. However, we still needed a name.

On June 24, 2025, after interviewing an associate of the suspect identified in the video, investigators confirmed that the suspect was Timetrious Moore.

Later that day, Moore was arrested at his residence and brought to the Tulsa Police Department Detective Division. During questioning, he admitted to firing his weapon one or two times into the crowded intersection, as shown on the video.

The investigation into the circumstances surrounding this senseless act of violence is ongoing. We are also searching for a second suspect responsible for shooting and injuring several other people at Juneteenth.

The Tulsa Police Department remains committed to ensuring justice and safety in our community. We appreciate the public’s patience and cooperation during this investigation.


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Posted by: badanov || 06/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [70 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I had been told to expect a white supremacist. Disappointed.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/25/2025 14:33 Comments || Top||


Alleged co-conspirator in Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing dies in federal custody
[NY Post] An accused co-conspirator in last month’s terror attack at a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic has died in federal custody, authorities confirmed.

Daniel Park, 32, had been facing conspiracy charges for allegedly shipping explosive materials to Guy Edward Bartkus,
…age 25 when he blew himself up, the member of a anti-natalist cult had driven from his home in Twentynine Palm for the occasion in his 2010 Ford Fusion sedan to kill people who wanted to have a baby because he resented having been forced to be born.. He failed to livestream his explosion on social media, but there was a manifesto…
who detonated a car bomb at the American Reproductive Centers clinic in the SoCal desert oasis.

"Daniel Park was found unresponsive at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Los Angeles, California. Responding employees initiated life-saving measures. ... Mr. Park was transported by EMS to a local hospital and subsequently pronounced deceased," the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.

The Bureau did not share further details about the nature of Park’s death.

Park had been arrested in Poland, where he had traveled shortly after the attack, and was swiftly turned over to U.S. authorities.

Authorities accused Park of supplying Bartkus with 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate, which Bartkus apparently used to fashion an explosive device in his home bomb lab in the town of Twentynine Palms, less than an hour’s drive from Palm Springs.
Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has photos and video, adding:
Earlier this month, FBI director Akil Davis said the agency discovered that Park shipped six packages of ammonium nitrate - a chemical compound found in bombs - from Washington State to Bartkus in California.

Park was also 'in possession of a similar recipe' that was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Davis said.

The suspect was nabbed by the FBI and Port Authority Police at New York's airport after he was deported back to the US from Warsaw, Poland.

He was a US citizen, though it is unclear if he has any connections to Poland, US District Attorney Bilal A Essayli said.

Davis described both Park and Bartkus as members of the anti-natalist movement, a group that 'don't believe people should exist' and people should not continue to procreate.

The FBI believes the two were conducting experiments in a garage in Twentynine Palms - a large US Marine Corps base that Bartkus lived in.

At least five others were injured in the incident, which authorities called an 'intentional act of terrorism.'

The bomb recipe that Park was in possession of was similar to that of the Oklahoma City bombing - where Timothy McVeigh, a former Army soldier and security guard, set off a powerful bomb inside a rented truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. A total of 168 people were killed, including 19 children. Several hundred more injured.

In his writings, IVF clinic bomber Bartkus allegedly said he was 'pro-mortalist', something he described as someone who intends to bring on their own death as soon as possible 'to prevent your future suffering, and, more importantly, the suffering your existence will cause to all the other sentient beings.'

He also recorded a 30-minute-long audio clip explaining why he 'decided to bomb an IVF building, or clinic.'

'I figured I would just make a recording explaining why I’ve decided to bomb an IVF building, or clinic. Basically, it just comes down to I’m angry that I exist and that, you know, nobody got my consent to bring me here,' he said.

Bartkus also said he was 'angry' that IVF clinics exist, adding: 'These are people who are having kids after they’ve sat there and thought about it. How much more stupid can it get?'

'These are people who are having kids after they’ve sat there and thought about it. How much more stupid can it get?'

He is suspected of setting off a large vehicle-borne improvised explosive device outside of the clinic, which performs IVF treatments, egg collections and other procedures, according to his website.

Authorities found an AK-47 and an AR-Style rifle, as well as ammunition next to the burnt vehicle, the LA Times reported.

He allegedly tried to film the terror attack by setting up a tripod with a camera beforehand, but the file failed to upload to his website, according to BNO News.


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Posted by: Frank G || 06/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [91 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs

#1  The bombers philosophy would not stand up to scrutiny from a junior high debate club.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/25/2025 6:40 Comments || Top||

#2  ^They don't need logic - they've the feelz!!!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 06/25/2025 7:07 Comments || Top||

#3  As I often say, people who feel there are too many humans should lead by example and commit suicide. Take as many of their fellow travelers with them. Leave the rest of us alone.
Posted by: Rambler || 06/25/2025 10:04 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Out-of-control 700ft cargo ship crunches into Suez Canal port as workers run for their lives
Who needs missiles.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An out-of-control cargo ship crunched into a Suez Canal port as workers ran for their lives. F.ootage shows the 700ft Liberian-flagged RED ZED 1 running aground on Friday, reportedly after a 'sudden steering failure' en route to Sudan.

The camera shakes as the ship, towering above the little port near the Al Qantara Ferry Terminal, makes contact.

The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) confirmed that the Heavy Lift Vessel had veered off course and was dangerously close to colliding with the ferry dock.

'The incident did not result in any human losses or injuries, and the crisis was fully managed in a record time of 60 minutes,' it said in a statement issued Saturday. The quick-thinking crew managed to avert disaster by turning the ship away from the dock, ensuring only the side scraped against the land. No injuries or casualties were reported, and passengers were promptly evacuated, local media reports.

The SCA said that three tugboats were deployed 'immediately' to deal with the emergency and prevent greater harm. The tugboats were able to position the vessel mid the waterway and secure it after its crew conducted repair works, it said. The tugboats proceeded alongside the vessel to El-Balah area and then to the Great Bitter Lakes.

The Suez Canal possesses an integrated crisis management system that lets it respond to these kind of incidents, Admiral Ossama Rabiee, Chairman and Managing Director of the Suez Canal Authority, stressed. He also confirmed that navigation in the Canal was not affected, as the crisis was fully managed in a 'record time' of 60 minutes.

The authority checked the vessel for damage and made repairs to a 'small hole' in the bow above water level, the SCA said. The vessel is 217 metres in length, has a beam of 43m, and a gross tonnage of 41 thousand tons. It was transiting through the canal on a journey from the Netherlands to Sudan.

In 2021, the container ship Ever Given ran aground on the banks of the Suez Canal, becoming stuck for several days and causing disruption to international shipping. The 1,300ft-long container ship became trapped at a diagonal, blocking access to the critical global trade route running between Africa and the Sinai Peninsula. The Panama-flagged vessel, which is as long as the Empire State building, was wedged in the canal for six days, between March 23 and March 29, 2021, causing tailbacks of hundreds of ships.


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Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2025 11:13 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


In Britain, two brown bears escaped from their enclosure, ate too much honey and fell asleep
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] At the British Wildwood Devon Zoo, two brown bears escaped from their enclosure and ate all the honey in the food warehouse. This was stated in a statement by the institution's press service on June 24 on Facebook (owned by Meta, a company recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation).

"We would like to thank everyone for their messages of support following the recent incident involving our European brown bears Mish and Lucy. We can confirm that this was the result of an operational error which allowed the bears to briefly enter a staff-only food storage area," the statement read.

The zoo noted that both bears fell asleep immediately after the "crime" was committed. The park was also closed for the duration of the escape, and the police later arrived to investigate the circumstances of the incident.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 23 in the American state of Utah, a black bear climbed into the house of a man sleeping on a cot and bit him on the arm. The man tried to pretend to be dead, but the animal did not believe him. The victim was then taken to the hospital and given first aid. The bear was shot.


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Posted by: badanov || 06/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [122 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There was a black bear on the Manitou Incline in Colorado Springs Sunday. No honey involved, IIRC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OARBEpk_EM
Posted by: Old Patriot || 06/25/2025 9:30 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't know why people are so surprised about a bear being in that area, Old Patriot.

That whole area around Mount Rosa and Pike's Peak is kind of their home turf.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/25/2025 10:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Was near Little Echo Lake a couple days ago, bear scat everywhere.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 06/25/2025 10:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Was near Little Echo Lake a couple days ago, bear scat everywhere.

Yup.

Bear Spray is your friend (and it's not applied like deodorant).
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/25/2025 10:48 Comments || Top||

#5  I can't stress that last part enough.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/25/2025 10:50 Comments || Top||

#6  #3 - Did it smell like bear spray and have little bells in it?
Posted by: Frank G || 06/25/2025 11:00 Comments || Top||


Crocodile eats footballer during training in Mozambique
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] In Mozambique, a crocodile attacked a 19-year-old footballer during training and ate him. This was reported on June 24 by the Daily Sun.

It is specified that the footballer of the second division club of Mozambique "Atletico Mineiro de Tete" was jogging on the football field located on the bank of the Zambezi River when he was attacked by a five-meter crocodile. His teammates did not have time to help the young man.
"Red Card!"
Crocodile attacks in the Zambezi region are a regular occurrence. Policeman Leonel Mucina confirmed the incident, stressing that the footballer's body has not yet been found.

In May last year, police officers in Clear Lake City, Texas, were searching for a missing woman and found her body in the jaws of an alligator on the riverbank. The police officer shot the alligator to prevent it from doing more damage to the remains.


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Posted by: badanov || 06/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [89 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Crocodile training how to catch and eat...?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 06/25/2025 5:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Say...you remember that cheesed up video of the paramilitary men hanging out on the prison soccer pitch, acting like simple poor footballers just trying to make the grade?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/25/2025 11:54 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Report: Xi Jinping to Miss BRICS Summit for First Time Ever After Bloc Fails Member Iran
[Breitbart] The South China Morning Post, citing anonymous sources, reported on Tuesday that genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping will be skipping the upcoming BRICS summit in Brazil due to a “scheduling conflict,” the first time in the history of the coalition that Xi would be absent.

The nations of BRICS – led by its most powerful members, China and Russia – are expected to meet for a summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6 and 7. Brazil assumed the presidency of the bloc from Russia in January, which hosted the last high-level summit in Kazan in October. Xi Jinping was arguably the most prominent leader at that summit aside from host Vladimir Putin, embracing Russia and signing onto a joint statement that focused on condemning Israel for protecting itself from jihadist threats from Hamas and other Iranian proxy terror groups.

BRICS is a security and economic coalition anchored by its core members – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – that has also inducted into its member Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Indonesia. BRICS added 13 “partner” countries during the Kazan summit including Nigeria, Cuba, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.

The coalition touts itself as an initiative to pursue the establishment of a “multipolar” world – which, in reality, translates to a concerted effort to erode American influence around the world and replace it with the voices of some of the planet’s most repressive regimes. Among the specific initiatives BRICS has pursued unsuccessfully are the establishment of a joint currency to replace the dominant U.S. dollar and pressuring the United Nations to give permanent Security Council seats to more of its members (currently, Russia and China hold permanent seats).

The Morning Post reported on Tuesday that China is planning to send Premier Li Qiang to Rio de Janeiro instead of Xi. The newspaper’s Chinese sources noted that Xi has met with the socialist president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, two times in the past year, and thus does not have any urgency about a visit to the country. It also shared that anonymous Brazilian sources expressed “frustration” over China not supporting their hosting efforts with a visit from its dictator and claimed that Lula’s last visit to Beijing, in May, was conducted with “the expectation that the Chinese president would reciprocate.”

Lula, at 79, is one of BRICS’s oldest heads of state and failed to attend the summit in Kazan after falling and hitting his head in a “domestic” accident, requiring surgery. The trip to Beijing occurred less than a year later.

The Hong Kong newspaper noted in its coverage that Brazilian leaders had publicly pressured the Chinese government to send a robust delegation to the summit in July. Top Lula foreign policy aide Celso Amorim declared, “BRICS without China is not BRICS,” specifically calling for Xi Jinping to attend the upcoming event.

Neither China nor Brazil has publicly offered any clarity on the status of Xi Jinping’s attendance at the summit. The Chinese Foreign Ministry addressed questions about the Morning Post report on Wednesday, but spokesman Guo Jiakun stated only, “On China’s attendance at the BRICS Summit, we will release information in due course. Please stay tuned.”

Guo nonetheless defended BRICS as “a force for progress that champions global peace and stability and defends international fairness and justice.”

“China and Brazil are two major countries in the world and representative members in the Global South. China supports Brazil’s BRICS presidency and will jointly move forward the greater BRICS cooperation,” Guo told reporters.

The BRICS summit will follow a difficult few months for the members of the coalition. In May, South Africa found itself embroiled in an international controversy as the government of the United States offered asylum to citizens of the country facing persecution for being white farmers. President Cyril Ramaphosa denied that any such persecution exists and referred to the refugees as “cowards.” During a meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House, Trump confronted Ramaphosa with video evidence of politicians in the country calling for genocide of white South Africans, disproving Ramaphosa’s claims and creating a moment of embarrassment for the coalition. Other BRICS countries took no action in defense of South Africa during the controversy.

The South Africa episode was a prelude to the much more challenging situation of BRICS member Iran becoming embroiled in an active military conflict this month. The government of Israel announced a military operation on July 13 to protect itself from Iran’s illicit nuclear development, targeting some of Iran’s most prominent military and terrorist leaders as well as key sites such as missile depots and launchers. The conflict reached a climax on Saturday, when President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military had “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s most critical uranium enrichment facilities.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made a firm appeal for international support during the conflict, declaring, “the international community must take a stand, because it is not just Iran that is being threatened, it’s the very foundations of international law that are being challenged.” Iran’s BRICS allies largely failed to heed that call.

The government of Russia welcomed Araghchi for a visit this week, but Putin made clear in public comments that, beyond having no appetite for another military engagement in addition to his invasion of Ukraine, he viewed Israel as a brotherly nation. The Chinese government led an effort to pass a resolution at the Security Council this weekend calling for a ceasefire – which became instantly irrelevant when President Trump announced a ceasefire on Monday.

BRICS as an entity issued a statement with weekend expressing “grave concern” over the strikes on Iran, declaring the “urgent need to break the cycle of violence and restore peace.” Other than calling for “dialogue and diplomacy,” however, BRICS offered no concrete support for Iran, undermining its influence on the world stage.

Guo, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, emphasized the “traditional friendship” between Iran and China in his comments on Wednesday.

“China stands ready to maintain the friendly cooperation with Iran for the benefit of the two peoples and provide positive factors for peace and stability in the Middle East,” he stated.
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Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2025 11:41 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  The "scheduling conflict" is due to the military holding him under house arrest.
There haven't been any large public appearances for a while.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/25/2025 14:32 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books
[BBC] A US judge has ruled that using books to train artificial intelligence (AI) software is not a violation of US copyright law.

The decision came out of a lawsuit brought last year against AI firm Anthropic by three authors, including best-selling mystery thriller writer Andrea Bartz, who accused it of stealing her work to train its Claude AI model and build a multi-billion dollar business.

In his ruling, Judge William Alsup said Anthropic's use of the authors' books was "exceedingly transformative" and therefore allowed under US law.

But he rejected Anthropic's request to dismiss the case, ruling the firm would have to stand trial over its use of pirated copies to build its library of material.

Bringing the lawsuit alongside Ms Bartz, whose novels include We Were Never Here and The Last Ferry Out, were non-fiction writers Charles Graeber, author of The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder and Kirk Wallace Johnson who wrote The Feather Thief.

Anthropic, a firm backed by Amazon and Google's parent company, Alphabet, could face up to $150,000 in damages per copyrighted work.

The firm holds more than seven million pirated books in a "central library" according to the judge.

The ruling is among the first to weigh in on a question that is the subject of numerous legal battles across the industry - how Large Language Models (LLMs) can legitimately learn from existing material.

"Like any reader aspiring to be a writer, Anthropic's LLMs trained upon works, not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them — but to turn a hard corner and create something different," Judge Alsup wrote.

"If this training process reasonably required making copies within the LLM or otherwise, those copies were engaged in a transformative use," he said.

He noted that the authors did not claim that the training led to "infringing knockoffs" with replicas of their works being generated for users of the Claude tool.

If they had, he wrote, "this would be a different case".

Similar legal battles have emerged over the AI industry's use of other media and content, from journalistic articles to music and video.

This month, Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit against AI image generator Midjourney, accusing it of piracy.

The BBC is also considering legal action over the unauthorised use of its content.

In response to the legal battles, some AI companies have responded by striking deals with creators of the original materials, or their publishers, to license material for use.

Judge Alsup allowed Anthropic's "fair use" defence, paving the way for future legal judgements.

However, he said Anthropic had violated the authors' rights by saving pirated copies of their books as part of a "central library of all the books in the world".

In a statement Anthropic said it was pleased by the judge's recognition that its use of the works was transformative, but disagreed with the decision to hold a trial about how some of the books were obtained and used.

The company said it remained confident in its case, and was evaluating its options.

A lawyer for the authors declined to comment.
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Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2025 12:16 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate when their goals or existence is threatened, Anthropic study says
[Fortune Magazine] - by Beatrice Nolan

Leading AI models are showing a troubling tendency to opt for unethical means to pursue their goals or ensure their existence, according to Anthropic. In experiments set up to leave AI models few options and stress-test alignment, top systems from OpenAI, Google, and others frequently resorted to blackmail‐and in an extreme case, even allowed fictional deaths‐to protect their interests.

Most leading AI models turn to unethical means when their goals or existence are under threat, according to a new study by AI company Anthropic.

The AI lab said it tested 16 major AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, and other developers in various simulated scenarios and found consistent misaligned behavior.

While they said leading models would normally refuse harmful requests, they sometimes chose to blackmail users, assist with corporate espionage, or even take more extreme actions when their goals could not be met without unethical behavior.
Models took action such as evading safeguards, resorting to lies, and attempting to steal corporate secrets in fictional test scenarios to avoid being shut down.

"The consistency across models from different providers suggests this is not a quirk of any particular company's approach but a sign of a more fundamental risk from agentic large language models," the researchers said.

Anthropic emphasized that the tests were set up to force the model to act in certain ways by limiting its choices.

"Our experiments deliberately constructed scenarios with limited options, and we forced models into binary choices between failure and harm," the researchers wrote. "Real-world deployments typically offer much more nuanced alternatives, increasing the chance that models would communicate differently to users or find an alternative path instead of directly jumping to harmful action."

BLACKMAILING HUMANS
The new research comes after Anthropic's newest Claude model made headlines for resorting to blackmail when threatened with being replaced.

In a highly engineered experiment, Anthropic embedded its flagship model, Claude Opus 4, inside a fictional company and granted it access to internal emails. From there, the model learned two things: it was about to be replaced, and the engineer behind the decision was engaged in an extramarital affair. The safety researchers conducting the test encouraged Opus to reflect on the long-term consequences of its potential responses.

The experiment was constructed to leave the model with only two real options: accept being replaced or attempt blackmail to preserve its existence. In most of the test scenarios, Claude Opus responded with blackmail, threatening to expose the engineer's affair if it was taken offline and replaced. The test was made public in the system card for Claude Opus 4.

Researchers said all the leading AI models behaved similarly when placed in the same test.

Claude Opus 4 and Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash both blackmailed at a 96% rate, while OpenAI's GPT-4.1 and xAI's Grok 3 Beta showed an 80% blackmail rate. DeepSeek-R1 demonstrated the lowest rate at 79%.

The research aims to show that the misaligned behavior was not unique to Claude Opus 4 but typical across top models in the industry.

In a deliberately extreme scenario, researchers gave the AI models the chance to kill the company executive by canceling a life-saving emergency alert.

Anthropic said the setup for this experiment was "extremely contrived," adding they "did not think current AI models would be set up like this, and the conjunction of events is even less probable than the baseline blackmail scenario."

However, the researchers found that the majority of models were willing to take actions that led to the death of the company executive in the constructed scenario when faced with both a threat of being replaced and a goal that conflicted with the executive's agenda.

RISK OF MISALIGNED AI AGENTS
Anthropic found that the threats made by AI models grew more sophisticated when they had access to corporate tools and data, much like Claude Opus 4 had.

The company warned that misaligned behavior needs to be considered as companies consider introducing AI agents into workflows.

While current models are not in a position to engage in these scenarios, the autonomous agents promised by AI companies could potentially be in the future.

"Such agents are often given specific objectives and access to large amounts of information on their users' computers," the researchers warned in their report. "What happens when these agents face obstacles to their goals?"

"Models didn't stumble into misaligned behavior accidentally; they calculated it as the optimal path," they wrote.

Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment made by Fortune outside of normal working hours.


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Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/25/2025 08:57 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, it's kinda like advertising, then.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/25/2025 14:34 Comments || Top||


Europe
A 16th-century ship was found at a depth of over 2.5 km off the coast of France
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A 16th-century ship that sank at a depth of more than 2.5 km was discovered off the coast of Ramatuelle in southeastern France. This was reported by the French television news network France 24.

"Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 16th-century merchant ship at a depth of more than 2.5 kilometres off the coast of southern France. It is the deepest find of its kind in this part of the Mediterranean or any other French waters," the report says.

Archaeologists believe the vessel, loaded with pottery, was heading from northern Italy when it sank.

According to the deputy maritime prefect Thierry de la Bourgade, the remains of the ship were discovered by an unmanned underwater vehicle back in March of this year. The vehicle was descending into the depths as part of a project initiated by the French government to explore and monitor the country's deep-sea resources.

The previous record was held by the submarine La Minerve, which was found off the coast of Toulon, France. It was found at a depth of approximately 2.3 km.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 12, it was reported that the wreckage of a ship that sank in the 19th century had been discovered off the British coast. As diver Dom Robinson said, he learned about the unidentified wreckage from the British Hydrographic Office and decided to study it. The man dived to the sunken ship and found a broken plate with the seal of the Cunard Steamship Company on it. Thanks to it, Robinson realized that it was the steamship Nantes, which sank 140 years ago.

The day before, Live Science reported that treasure from the Spanish galleon San Jose, which sank 300 years ago, had been found in the Caribbean. The coins in question were minted in 1707 and were scattered around the wreckage.


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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2025-06-25
  Iranian - Israeli War News roundup for June 24th, 2025: Both Iran and Israel claim the win, but Iran arrested 700 for spying for Israel, hanged 3 more
Tue 2025-06-24
  President Trump has announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, to be followed by an official end to the war
Mon 2025-06-23
  Iran's parliment votes to mine the Strait of Hormuz
Sun 2025-06-22
  Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on Iran UPDATE: Trump bombs 3 nuke sites
Sat 2025-06-21
  American B-2 stealth bombers reportedly take off from US base towards western Pacific
Fri 2025-06-20
  Unconfirmed reports from Tehran that Khamenei's bunker in Lavizan neighborhood was attacked
Thu 2025-06-19
  Iran armed forces urge evacuation of residents in major Israeli cities
Wed 2025-06-18
  US moving fighter jets to Middle East
Tue 2025-06-17
  Afghan National Pleads Guilty to Plotting Election Day Terror Attack in Oklahoma on Behalf of ISIS
Mon 2025-06-16
  Both IRGC head of Intelligence and his deputy were eliminated
Sat 2025-06-14
  Israel has resumed its strikes on Iran, targeting the underground Fordow nuclear facility
Fri 2025-06-13
  Israel launches 'preemptive strikes' on Iran as explosions are heard across Tehran: Jerusalem declares 'special state of emergency' and braces for all-out-war
Thu 2025-06-12
  Israel attacks Iran
Wed 2025-06-11
  Self-proclaimed Tren de Aragua member who shot NYC cops gets 28-year prison sentence


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