Grab Your Shovels: Map Pointing Towards Nazi Treasure in the Netherlands Has Been Revealed

The National Archives of the Netherlands declassified a World War II-era file that contained a hand-drawn Nazi treasure map earlier this month, causing groups of amateur treasure hunters to descend on a small Dutch town in search of the long-lost valuables.

The archive believes the treasure came from an August 1944 allied bombing, which damaged the then-Rotterdamsche Bank in Arnhem, which is about 25 miles away from Ommeren where the cache is supposedly buried.

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Declassified Doc Reveals How UK, France Planned to Whitewash Responsibility for WWII

Months after the start of the Second World War, the United Kingdom and France planned to release a blue book collection of doctored diplomatic correspondence to try to paint the USSR as the party responsible for the breakdown of the Soviet-Anglo-French defense pact talks of the summer of 1939.

A document dated January 27, 1940, citing information provided by an undercover agent inside Her Majesty’s Government, published in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service’s digital archive, detailed plans by the British to release the blue book, and its expected contents.

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❗️US House fails to elect speaker on 14th ballot. Kevin McCarthy receives 216 votes, one short of victory. The House has adjourned until noon Monday.

🌼 Austrian artist André Heller has created an Anima garden exhibition 27 kilometers from Marrakech, Morocco which visitors can freely walk around. Anima presents more than 50 works of art, most of which are sculptures but the garden has no fences or labels on the objets d'art.

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A motion to adjourn until Monday has been rejected and a 15th vote is now under way.

⚡️US House elects McCarthy as speaker, ending 4-Day chamber deadlock at midnight Saturday

A Jetstar flight made an emergency landing at Chubu Centrair International Airport in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture on Saturday morning, the NHK broadcaster reports. Police said the plane made an emergency landing because of a bomb threat

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The latest Western military aid to Ukraine suggests that Washington, Paris and Berlin are supportive of Kiev’s offensive strategy and are not open to peace talks, a US news outlet reported, citing analysts.

US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Scholz released a joint statement announcing commitments of infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. On Wednesday, French President Macron promised his Ukrainian counterpart Zelensky, to supply Kiev with an unspecified number of AMX-10 RC armored combat vehicles

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🇺🇸 🇪🇹 Washington appoints new ambassador to Ethiopia

Ervin Jose Massinga, a top State Department official, has been proposed by President Joe Biden as the next US ambassador to Ethiopia. Massinga, who has already served in Sudan, Ivory Coast, Pakistan and China, will take up the position of US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ethiopia, which has been vacant for about a year, if the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves his nomination.

The US established diplomatic relations with Ethiopia in 1903 and sent its first ambassador, Herman Hoffman Philip, in 1908. Its latest ambassador, Geeta Pasi, resigned from her position in January 2022 after less than a year in office. Tracey Ann Jacobson has been working as a an interim Chargé d'Affaires - a diplomatic position lacking some of an ambassador's authority

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New US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he was committed to stop "wasteful" Washington spending and the rising national debt.

🗣️ "There is nothing more important than making it possible for American families to live and enjoy the lives they deserve. That is why we commit to stop wasteful Washington spending, to lower the price of groceries, gas, cars, housing and stop the rising national debt," he said at the House session

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Canada ’Closely Following’ Events in Venezuela as Interim Government Dissolved After Vote

🗣 “Canada is closely following the events in Venezuela, including the recent vote by its National Assembly to dissolve the interim government,” the ministry said in a statement.

Global Affairs said Canada respects the National Assembly decision to dissolve Juan Guaido interim government, in line with its recognition of it being the “last remaining” democratically elected institution in Venezuela

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🗻About 600 families have been ordered to evacuate the Indian town of Joshimath immediately because of subsidence.

🔻More than 530 houses are cracked and one temple has collapsed, according to local media reports.

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🥥🌴 A retiree from Thailand has invented a simplified way of getting coconuts: he climbs coconut palms, clinging to the trunk of a tree with special clamps. then moves the clamps up one by one, thus easily climbing to the top

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❗️ Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ The combined group of troops has been observing a ceasefire along the entire line of contact in the area of the special military operation since 12 noon Moscow time on January 6. At the same time, the Kiev regime has continued to shell residential areas and Russian positions with artillery over the past 24 hours.

▪️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 11 mortar shells at Russian positions in the Krasny Liman direction.

▪️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine opened artillery fire in the Zaporozhye region 31 times. In the Kherson and Krivoy Rog directions, the enemy launched 17 artillery attacks. Russian forces returned fire against all the AFU's positions from which the shelling took place, and suppressed them.

▪️ Two assault groups of the 80th and 95th airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repulsed in the Krasny Liman direction.

▪️ One attempt by Armed Forces of Ukraine units from the 110th Mechanized and 79th Airborne Assault Brigades to attack Russian positions in the DPR was thwarted.

▪️ Anti-aircraft defenses destroyed four UAVs in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

▪️ Five Uragan and HIMARS multiple-launch rocket systems and one US-made HARM anti-radar missile were intercepted in the DPR.

▪️ Some 360 airplanes and 199 helicopters, 2,843 unmanned aerial vehicles, 400 air defense missile systems, 7,441 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 972 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 3,787 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 7,957 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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FIFA Appoints First Female Football Referee From Saudi Arabia: Report

This appointment happened less than a year after the first ever match of Saudi Arabia's women's football team, which was created in 2019.

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Mexico Judge Halts Extradition of Drug Kingpin ‘El Chapo’ Son to the US

Ovidio Guzmán López, aka “El Raton”, alleged drug cartel leader and son of the notorious Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, was arrested on January 5 by Mexican authorities in Culiacan, Sinaloa state.

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'All by Myself': Washington DC Tops List of 'Loneliest' Cities in America

America's capital, Washington DC, has been named as the loneliest city in the entire country, according to a new study from the Chamber of Commerce.

Analyis of US Census Bureau data revealed the disheartening statistics: among the 319,565 households in Washington, D.C., nearly half (48.2%) had just one occupant. Overall, 154,140 residents live "solo" in the nation's capital, with this applying to 21.5% of men and 26.7% of women.

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After Depleting Oil Reserve, Biden’s Energy Department Refuses to Fill It Back Up

The Biden administration released some 180 million barrels of oil from America’s emergency stockpile ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, ostensibly to try to get a grip on the skyrocketing price of gas at the pump, with the reserve subsequently tumbling to its lowest levels since 1983.

Tasked with the purchase of three million barrels of sour crude oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in February, the US Department of Energy has reportedly rejected multiple offers from producers, hoping to get a better deal.

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How Literal Nazis Holding Kiev Hostage Ruined Relations With Budapest: A View From Hungary

Budapest and Kiev have suffered exceptionally poor relations for nearly a decade, owing largely to discriminatory laws against the estimated 150,000-strong community of ethnic Hungarians living in the southwestern Ukrainian region of Zakarpattia.

The source of the “stormy relationship” between Hungary and successive Ukrainian governments since the 2014 Euromaidan coup is no mystery, and stems from the criminally underreported-on problem of ultranationalists holding Ukrainian politicians and politics hostage, a Hungarian columnist has observed.

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Top EU Diplomat Vows More Support for Ukraine in 2023

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Friday he had spoken to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to reassure him of continued support for his country in 2023.

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