Photo shows an artifact that is believed to have been stolen during the pillaging of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad in 2003 and returned to Iraq by FBI, undated. Archaeologists believe the artifact, which stands only 2 1/4 inches tall and 1 1/2 inches wide, dates back 2,700 years. (FBI/Newsflash)

Looted 7th Century BC Artefact Returned To Iraq After Adorning US Museum For 17 Years

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:March 22, 2023

US authorities have repatriated a 2,700-year-old artefact stolen from a museum in Iraq 20 years ago. The Iron Age artefact, named 'Furniture Fitting with Sphinx Trampling a Youth', was reportedly…

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Image shows the ChipMixer darknet cryptocurrency anonymizing service, undated photo. It was seized by U.S. and German authorities on Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2023. (BKA/Newsflash)

US And German Authorities Shut Down World’s Largest Darknet Money Laundering Platform And Seize EUR 44m In Crypto

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:March 22, 2023

The US and German authorities have shut down the world's largest darknet money-laundering platform and seized over EUR 44 million in Bitcoin. They have also reportedly seized nearly seven terabytes…

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Firefighters rescue and elk that fell in frozen pond in Evergreen, Colorado, USA on March 8, 2023. The department said the elk was not injured and was quickly able to rejoin its herd. (Evergreen Fire/Rescue/Newsflash)

Firefighters Rescue Elk That Fell Into Frozen Pond

• Post author:Simona Kitanovska
• Post published:March 15, 2023

This is the chilling moment an elk that fell through the icy surface of a frozen pond gets rescued by firefighters. The 'cool' rescue operation reportedly took place in the…

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Picture shows some of the artefacts that were returned, undated. The artefacts with an estimated value of over 20 million dollars, were repatriated to Rome, Italy from the United States, where they had been marketed by traffickers. (Emanuele Antonio Minerva/Newsflash)

US Returns 60 Stolen Artefacts To Italy With Estimated Value Of GBP 18 Million

• Post author:Simona Kitanovska
• Post published:January 29, 2023

A total of 60 stolen archaeological artefacts valued at nearly GBP 18 million were returned from the United States to Italy following a criminal investigation spanning years. Some of the…

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Picture shows baby pygmy hippo that was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in Chesterfield County, Virginia, USA, on Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. The female baby was born on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, and is yet to be named. (Metro Richmond Zoo, AMAZING ANIMALS, TMX/Newsflash)

Baby Pygmy Hippo Born In US Zoo A Cause For Celebration

• Post author:Simona Kitanovska
• Post published:January 4, 2023

A zoo in the US state of Virginia received the most wonderful of presents for Christmas this year when a baby pygmy hippo was born at the enclosure. Footage of…

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Picture shows coconuts with fentanyl pills hidden inside, undated. The Attorney General's Office (FGR) seized approximately 300 kilogrames of fentanyl pills inside a truck, in Sonora , Mexico, as reported by the authorities on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2022. (FGR/Newsflash)

Officials In Mexico Seize Huge US-Bound Drugs Haul Hidden Inside Coconuts

• Post author:William McGee
• Post published:December 11, 2022

These snaps show how officials in Mexico seized nearly 700 lb of fentanyl hidden inside coconuts bound for the US. Picture shows coconuts with fentanyl pills hidden inside. (FGR/Newsflash) Fentanyl…

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Picture shows natural and synthetic marine debris in Oahu, Hawaii, in undated footage. SEED's Trash Time Machine uses water and physics to separate natural and synthetic material. (@seed.world/Newsflash)

Breakthrough In Scrubbing Microplastics From The World’s Oceans

• Post author:Alice Amelia Thomas
• Post published:November 24, 2022

Retired US Marine Corps combat engineer shows off a new tool capable of separating microplastics from organic sea matter. The Trash Time Machine (TTM) is an open-source invention created by…

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Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessels operate with USS Delbert D. Black, HMS Bangor, HMS Chiddingfold, and USCGC Robert Goldman in the Arabain Gulf during exercise Phantom Scope on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, in Persian Gulf. (U.S. Navy/Newsflash).

UK And US Navies Exercise With Automated Vessels In Gulf

• Post author:Simona Kitanovska
• Post published:November 15, 2022

This footage shows the UK and the US Navy conducting a military exercise with unmanned surface vessels in the middle of the Arabian Gulf. Newsflash obtained the footage from the…

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Image shows a World War II bomb, undated photo. German authorities evacuated 20,000 people to detonate the 500-kilogramme (1102 lbs) bomb in the city of Frankfurt, Germany on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. (Herr Schaider, Regierungsprasidium Darmstadt/Newsflash)

20,000 Evacuated After Massive 1100-Lb WWII Bomb Discovered

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:October 19, 2022

More than 20,000 people were evacuated from a German city after this massive unexploded 500-kilogramme World War II bomb was found 78 years after it was dropped there by US…

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A zombie wasp grips a twig with the fungus sprouting from its physique in Fayette County, Alabama, U. S., in an undated photo. (@alabamawildlifeandfreshwaterfisheries/Newsflash)

Creepy Fungus Growth Turns Wasps Into Zombies

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:September 29, 2022

Possessed zombie wasps with fungus stalks coming out of their brains have been found by wildlife experts in the US. The parasitical fungus - which locks a victim's jaws around…

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