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...The container ship Gibraltar Eagle was targeted on January 15, as was the Genco Picardy two days later, the Maersk Detroit on January 24 and the Marlin Luanda on January 26....
...These include JSC Kalashnikov Concern, Russia’s largest firearms manufacturer....
...The Copenhagen-based company’s other vessels have been travelling via the Cape of Good Hope since December....
...“As was showcased very clearly again on Friday, shipowners that transit through the area put the lives of their seafarers at risk,” he said, referring to the Marlin Luanda attack....
...The Marlin Luanda is owned by a group of international investors through a company which, because the investors were advised by US investment bank JPMorgan Chase, is registered at one of the bank’s London...
...Last month, the company co-hosted a power grid investment summit in Houston with Dan Patrick, Texas’s lieutenant-governor....
...Marlin Naidoo, head of capital introductions at BNP Paribas, said allocators had allocated money to the large managers who tend to have higher performance fees, pushing up that figure....
...It is also the first reported direct hit by a Houthi weapon on a ship since a fire broke out on January 26 on the Marlin Luanda, a fuel tanker operating on behalf of commodities trader Trafigura....
...In the most serious attack so far, on January 26 a missile struck the oil products tanker Marlin Luanda carrying products for commodities trader Trafigura, starting a fire that took the crew and naval vessels...
...In late January, they started a serious fire on the Marlin Luanda, a tanker operating on behalf of commodities trader Trafigura....
...He’s also reached a deal with prosecutors over a separate charge that one accuses him of possessing a firearm while he was addicted to drugs....
...significant blow, and inflicts a major punishment in this case — more than sufficient to satisfy the statutory requirements,” they added, pointing out that as a convicted felon he would not be allowed to own a firearm...
...He has moved to dismiss the firearms charge. Hunter Biden acknowledged on Wednesday that he had made “mistakes” and “wasted opportunities and privileges I was afforded”....
...Benko invited him on board his yacht, Roma, to his exclusive hotel in Lech, in the Alps, and on weekend breaks to Ibiza, where he promised to get Schmid VIP treatment at venues such as Lío and The Blue Marlin...
...Banks in Florida may not use a social credit score that considers political opinions, speech, affiliations, religious beliefs, ownership of firearms or support for the fossil fuels, timber, mining or agricultural...
...But, in Texas, where two laws barred municipalities from doing business with banks that boycott fossil fuel and firearms companies, this has ended up costing taxpayers millions of dollars in extra interest...
...Indeed, examining the investment share in companies about which there are environmental or labour concerns, and that in small firearms manufacturers and distributors, suggests a clear pattern....
...control case United States vs Rahimi, which challenges the constitutionality, based on the Second Amendment, of a federal law prohibiting those with domestic violence-related restraining orders from owning firearms...
...Israelis buy guns: Firearms sales have surged among Jewish Israelis since the deadly Hamas attacks shattered the country’s sense of security....
...Declining an offer of a firearm from a colleague, Fitzgerald, a shop manager based in the western US, raced to get cash out from a bank, while staying on the phone....
...The two charges that he already faces — and that were the subject of an unsuccessful plea bargain deal — relate to his failure to file tax returns and his possession of a firearm, while a drug user....
...A plea deal for Hunter Biden over alleged tax and firearm charges fell apart in July, paving the way for a possible indictment....
...But, in April 2022, he and business partner Chris Corbin left the company under fraught circumstances....
...Mastercard and Visa are pausing work on creating a code that aimed to categorise sales by firearms sellers....
...He will likely lose the right to own a firearm — a serious deprivation for a lifelong hunter/outdoorsman — to vote, to hold office, to sit on a jury and perhaps to obtain professional licenses....
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