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Was It an Act of War? That’s Merck Cyber Attack’s $1.3 Billion Insurance Question.
Dec 3 2019 // By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are down. It was worse than it seemed. Some employees who...
Dam Collapse in Siberia Kills At Least 15 Gold Miners
Oct 21 2019 // At least 15 gold miners were killed on Saturday when a dam collapsed, flooding an artisanal mining encampment in a remote part of Siberia, officials said. Heavy rains had weakened the dam and water broke through, sweeping...
Russia Aims to Boost Arctic Shipping by Subsidizing Higher Costs, Including Insurance
Oct 21 2019 // Russia wants to make its Arctic waters more attractive to shippers than the Suez Canal and could be willing to compensate for potential risks to make that happen. President Vladimir Putin has made development of the Arctic...
Conservative TV Channel Sues MSNBC’s Maddow for Calling It ‘Paid Propaganda’
Sep 11 2019 // A conservative television network has sued MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for more than $10 million for calling it “paid Russian propaganda.” One America News filed the federal defamation suit in San Diego. The...
Following Deadly Blast, Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Reactor
Aug 23 2019 // Russia’s Rosatom shipped its first floating nuclear-power reactor on Friday, setting the unit off on a barge journey among Arctic ice caps, raising concerns in the wake of a recent military accident that caused a...
Nuclear Watchdog Says Russia Resumes Sharing Radiation Data
Aug 21 2019 // Russia has resumed sharing data from its radiation monitoring stations in Siberia after some were taken offline following a deadly explosion at a missile range, a nuclear weapons watchdog said Tuesday. The mysterious...
Putin Vows Russian Nuclear Accident That Killed 5 Scientists Poses No Further Risk
Aug 20 2019 // President Vladimir Putin said there’s no risk from the explosion at a Russian military facility that caused a radiation spike and killed at least five people. “There’s no threat there and no increase in...
Russia’s Yandex Accelerates Driverless Car Testing
Aug 19 2019 // Yandex, a Russian equivalent to Google, said it is considering expanding its fleet of self-driving cars to up to 1,000 within the next two years in order to speed up tests on the fledgling technology. Yandex hopes to start...
Sun Valley Climate Conference’s Broad Agenda: Wildfires, Military, Insurance, Resilience
Aug 1 2019 // Washington had a record 1,850 responses to wildfires on Department of Natural Resources lands last year. Over the last five years, wildfires have continued to hit the state hard. One state official, who believes climate...
Russian Aeroflot Plane Hit by Lightning Before It Crashed, Killing 41: Investigators
Jun 17 2019 // Lightning struck a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft knocking out its auto pilot system shortly before it crash landed in Moscow last month killing 41 people, investigators said on Friday, adding it had approached too...
Russia’s Aeroflot Cuts Superjet Flights After Fatal Crash in May
Jun 4 2019 // Russian airline Aeroflot has scaled back the number of Sukhoi Superjet 100 flights it operates after one of its planes made a crash-landing last month, killing 41 people, according to data provided by a flight tracking...
Recent Airline Crashes Don’t Reflect Aviation Safety Record
May 10 2019 // With plane crashes making headlines recently, one in Florida with no fatalities and another in Russia that killed dozens, travelers might question whether flying has become less safe. Aviation experts regard the recent...
Aeroflot Plane Makes Fiery Emergency Landing at Moscow Airport, Killing 41 People
May 6 2019 // An Aeroflot PJSC plane on a domestic Russian flight made a fiery emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, killing 41 people. Flight SU1492 to Murmansk, a Sukhoi Superjet, suffered an engine fire after...
Explaining Europe’s Growing Money Laundering Scandal
Apr 8 2019 // The largest ever money laundering scandal in Europe is rippling through the region’s banks. It began in the Baltics and has engulfed several Nordic lenders, notably Denmark’s Danske and Sweden’s Swedbank,...
Money Launderers Could Begin Targeting Smaller Banks, Warns Denmark
Apr 2 2019 // Denmark’s financial watchdog is warning that smaller banks need to be on high alert for signs of money laundering as larger lenders tighten their surveillance systems. Jesper Berg, director general of the Financial...
Another Money Laundering Risk Seen Coming from Firms Providing Payment Services
Mar 20 2019 // As one avenue for money launderers is shut, another one may be opening. In Denmark, home to Danske Bank A/S, the authorities are now taking a closer look at companies that provide payment services. The worry is that the...
Update: Europe’s Dirty Money Could Total $1 Trillion, Says Anti-Corruption Investor Browder
Mar 7 2019 // Bill Browder, the investor who’s made a career of chasing money launderers, says the cases he’s brought against banks so far only represent a tiny fraction of the full amount in dirty money trying to get out of...
What’s Known About Massive Russia Money Laundering Scheme, ‘Troika Laundromat’
Mar 7 2019 // The so-called Troika Laundromat was a financial network set up by a Russian investment bank to help clients move money out of the country and hide it. The scheme exported about $4.8 billion over seven years, with the help...
Swedbank Money Laundering Scandal Deepens with Possible Ukraine Connection
Feb 27 2019 // Allegations of money laundering against Sweden’s oldest bank grew this week to draw in some of the former Soviet Union’s most notorious individuals. Viktor Yanukovych, the president of Ukraine until 2014, used...
Unpicking the Complicated Finances of UK Insurance Exec, Pro-Brexit Donor Banks
Feb 25 2019 // Ever since Brexit supporter Arron Banks made the largest political donation in British history he’s been dogged by questions about where he got the money. For a man who told the Financial Times he was worth 100...
