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Posted On: 10/01/2018 9:08:58 AM
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500 million pounds a week
According to a study from the Centre for European Reform published over the weekend, Brexit has cost the British government 500 million pounds a week, and that number is apparently growing. [Reuters]
800 marines
Speaking of the U.K. — and entry No. 1,682 in our continuing series of unexpected effects of climate change — the U.K. is sending some 800 Royal Marines to Norway and four Royal Air Force fighter planes to the skies above Iceland in response to increased Russian submarine activity in the north Atlantic.
The ice there is melting, and new shipping routes are emerging. Russia may be staking its claim, trying to militarize this new Arctic region. I always did think the freezing poles never got their due in Risk. [Bloomberg]
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