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How strong is a Nord Stream pipe? Quite! The steel pipe itself has a wall of 4.1 centimeters (1.6 inches), and it’s coated with another 6-11 cm of steel-reinforced concrete. Each section of the pipe weighs 11 tonnes, which goes to 24-25 tonnes after the concrete is applied.

 

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I wonder how they handle mould inside their houses.

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Poor man, he’s far too old for this 

 

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Toby Murray, an associate professor in cybersecurity at the University of Melbourne, said the release of data revealed some individuals had multiple documents compromised – which would exceed the 100 points of identification required to prove someone’s identity for organisations such as Centrelink or a police check.

Changing your Medicare card number is relatively straightforward, driver’s licences and passports are more challenging.

NSW will charge a $29 replacement fee, which it said will be reimbursed by Optus.

Victorians will also get “free” licence number replacements and the chance to flag their licence record in case of future fraud………

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Source:  The Guardian Australia

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Labor is facing a backlash from the crossbench over its decision for the national anti-corruption commission to hold “most” of its hearings in private with public hearings limited to “exceptional circumstances”.

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Tourists walk across elevated walkways outside St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy. AFP

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A Ukrainian serviceman examines a gun of a fallen soldier of the National Guard of Ukraine found at military positions near the village of Dementiivka, Kharkiv region, on Sept. 26, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

SERGEY BOBOK, AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

 

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The gas leak at the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is seen from the Danish Defense’s F-16 rejection response off the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm, south of Dueodde, Denmark.  The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline linking Russia and Europe have been hit by unexplained leaks, Scandinavian authorities said, raising suspicions of sabotage.  AFP

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Raisa and her relative receive humanitarian aid in the recently liberated town of Izium in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine.  Reuters

 

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Reservists drafted during the partial mobilisation attend a departure ceremony in Sevastopol, Crimea. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on September 21 a mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of Russian men to bolster Moscow’s army in Ukraine, sparking demonstrations and an exodus of men abroad. Photograph : AFP

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An Orthodox priest conducts a service for reservists drafted during partial mobilization, before their departure for military bases in the city of Bataysk in the Rostov region, 26 September. Reuters/Sergey Pivovarov

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Not sure yet Suze, developing story I think

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Russia is a country where people flee – not because someone invaded their country, but because they invaded somebody elses.

 

 

 

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So glad we changed over from Optus to iinet, image having to change everything, what an absolute nightmare.

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It’s beautiful, romantic even.

 

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David and his partner had been living in their inner-Sydney property for only 12 months when they were issued with a 50% rent increase. They had been paying $800 a week for a three-bedroom home with a study, one car space.   Now, they were told, it would jump to $1,200.

 

“Their justification was it’s in line with market value,” David says. “We said we’d be prepared to pay $1,000 a week, even though the air conditioning hasn’t worked.”

The same week, they were served with a lease termination notice instructing them they had 30 days to vacate the property.

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Iranian women taking part in a march on international women’s day through the capital Tehran to protest new rules making the Hijab compulsory. 8th March 1979 

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Sept 26 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the National Security Agency (NSA).

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Authorities in Germany are trying to establish what caused a sudden drop in pressure in the defunct Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, with a spokesperson for its operator saying it could have been a leak.

The pipeline has been one of the flashpoints in an escalating energy war between Europe and Moscow since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February that has pummelled western economies and sent gas prices soaring.

Nord Stream 2’s operator said pressure in the undersea pipeline dropped from 105 to 7 bar overnight.

 

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MOSCOW (AP) — A gunman opened fire in a school in central Russia on Monday, killing 17 people and wounding 24 others before shooting himself dead.

The shooting took place in School No. 88 in Izhevsk, a city 960 kilometers (600 miles) east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region.

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