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Turkey
Protest Crackdown
Turkish authorities are taking increasingly strong actions against a protest movement spurred by the arrest of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, on March 22. Erdogan has described the protests as a “movement of violence” while Imamoglu’s allies have described his arrest on corruption charges as politically motivated. Turkish police have attacked protestors with pepper spray, tear gas, and water cannons, and have also detained journalists covering the protest actions. The protests in Turkey are one of a few notable popular uprisings across southeastern Europe, with anti-corruption actions taking place in Georgia, Hungary, and Serbia, and protests against the Russian-alignment of Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government in Slovakia. In Romania, the far-right are protesting the disqualification of winning candidate Calin Georgescu for Russian interference in a presidential vote held in December. In contrast, the protests in Georgia, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia, and Turkey are all againt governments whose leaders have some alignment with Russia.
This map depicts areas of southeastern Europe being affected by mass anti-government protests in red. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Newsweek
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China
Undersea Cable-Cutting Weapon
China has disclosed its development of a new device capable of cutting armored undersea cables as deep as 4,000 meters, which it would theoretically deploy in tandem with its advanced submersibles. The device, which includes a fast-spinning, diamond-edged grinding wheel, was designed by the China Ship Scientific Research Center in partnership with the state-owned Laboratory of Deep-Sea Manned Vehicles. Undersea cables are a critical part of global communication infrastructure. Sometimes referred to as undersea highways, these cables carry over 95 percent of international data, with the rest being largely communicated by satellite. The ability to sabotage these cables significantly increases China’s threat potential on the global stage. Accordingly, the revelation comes amid an expansion in China’s undersea activities. Recently, China has been developing new manned and unmanned submersibles, conducting research in foreign waters without permission, and building new naval bases.
This map depicts the global network of undersea data cables. Click on the map to learn more.
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Australia
New Fossilized Fish Found
Scientists have unearthed the fossilized remains of a completely new species of fish. Fossils of the recently named Ferruaspis brocksi species were discovered in the McGraths Flat fossil site near Gulgong, New South Wales. The fish are up to 16 million-years-old and exceptionally well-preserved: scientists can reconstruct their final meals through preserved stomach content and, in some cases, intact intestinal tract. This included bits of insect larvae, half-digested insect wings, and bivalve (a mollusc with two hinged shells, like a mussel). Additionally, the fossils retained remnants of colour cells, called melanophores, a highly unusual find: analysing melanophores to reconstruct colour patterns is a huge advancement in the field of fossil fish. This is the first finding of a freshwater smelt (a small, silvery fish in the group Osmeriformes) to have been discovered in Australia and will help scientists determine when these fish arrived there.
This map depicts where the fossilized remains of a new species of fish was discovered in New South Wales, Australia. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What country is home to the largest city north of the Arctic Circle?
A: Russia
Around 295,000 people live in Murmansk, a port city founded in 1915 at the height of World War I, and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia. It is the world’s largest city north of the Arctic Circle and sits on both slopes and banks of a modest fjord, Kola Bay, an estuarine inlet of the Barents Sea, with its bulk on the east bank of the inlet. The city is a major port of the Arctic Ocean and is about 62 mi (100 km) from the border with Norway, 110 miles (180 km) from the border with Finland and 1,200 miles (1,930 km) from Moscow. One of its Soviet-era landmarks, the 236-foot (72-meter) Arktika Hotel, is the tallest building north of the Arctic Circle. It is now an important fishing port, and its fish-processing plant is one of the largest in Europe.
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