Diamond prices dropping sharply – Boing Boing

Diamond prices dropping sharply  Boing Boing Diamonds lose their sparkle as prices come crashing down  The Guardian Thinking of proposing? It could be a lot cheaper as diamond prices drop  Fortune Diamond price crashes as jeweller warns precious mineral getting cheaper by the week  GB News Natural Diamond Market Shows Strength and Stability: Industry Bodies Dismiss Misleading Narratives  Diamond World

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Social Security boost may not come for more than a year for many Americans – CBS News

Massachusetts public sector retirees celebrate Social Security Fairness Act Massachusetts public sector retirees celebrate Social Security Fairness Act 02:12 The Social Security Administration says millions of retired teachers, firefighters, police officers and others with public pensions may have to wait up to a year or longer to reap the benefits of the recently passed Social

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Hamas list shows 8 hostages to be freed in first phase of ceasefire are dead, Israel says – PBS NewsHour

JERUSALEM — Israel says a Hamas list shows that eight of the 33 hostages to be released in the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire are dead. Government spokesman David Mencer told journalists Monday that Hamas said the other 25 are alive. Israel overnight said it had received a list of information on the status

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A Bulgarian shipping company denies its vessel sabotaged a Baltic Sea cable – The Associated Press

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A Bulgarian shipping company on Monday denied that one of its ships had intentionally damaged an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland. Swedish prosecutors announced on Sunday night that they had launched a preliminary investigation on suspicion

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Tens of thousands of Palestinians return to north Gaza as Israel opens checkpoints – The Guardian

Tens of thousands of Palestinians flooded back into northern Gaza on Monday after Israel opened military checkpoints that had divided the strip for more than a year, ending a forced exile from homes and loved ones that many feared could become permanent. In the dawn light, crowds that had waited by the road overnight began

Hungary drops veto threat and allows renewal of EU sanctions on Russia – Euronews

Hungary drops veto threat and allows renewal of EU sanctions on Russia  Euronews EU renews Russia sanctions after Hungary lifts veto threat  Financial Times EU renews Russia sanctions after Hungarian delay  Reuters Orbán’s new threat: I’ll end Russia sanctions unless Ukraine pumps Putin’s gas  POLITICO Europe Hungary backs down in EU Russia sanctions standoff  POLITICO Europe

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Thieves blow up museum door and steal ancient artifacts, including 2,500-year-old gold helmet – CNN

CNN  —  Thieves have stolen four ancient artifacts, including an approximately 2,500-year-old gold helmet, after using explosives to break into a museum in the Netherlands. The daring heist took place at Drents Museum in Assen during the early hours of Saturday morning, according to Dutch police, who said they received a report of an explosion

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth debuts to the highest peak concurrent users of the series on Steam—except for the MMO, naturally

(Image credit: Square Enix) Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth has finally ambled its way over to PC, and it’s landing with—hold your breath—moderate to solid success! Please imagine me firing some party poppers at your leisure. As seen on the game’s SteamDB page, Rebirth has thus far enjoyed a peak concurrent player count of around 40,000

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Larian scrambles to find out who exactly put Patch 8 on the PS5 early, meanwhile I, a PC unfortunate, rattle the bars of my enclosure

(Image credit: Larian Studios) As PC Gamer is wont to do, we’ve been posting a lot about how our device of choice has won the console war. I would like to unilaterally, with authority that I do not have (and have not asked for), state that we’ve lost. Catastrophically, because the PlayStation 5 has randomly