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artery

2024-01-14 21:36:02 | Reading - politics
It looks the debut of Lord Cameron as the Foreign Secretary.

UK had no choice but to strike Houthis - Cameron
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67972796
The article is just a summary of the article of the Telegraph.
I cannot find the map of the important trade routes in the Telegraph article. Taiwan.

Word. not so many
unambiguous <>ambiguous
navigation - the freedom of navigation - this is the original meaning
paramount adjective - accent
retaliation < retaliate
strait - Bab al-Mandab Strait (wiki: Bab-el-Mandeb)this is the strait of Dire Straits. It seems sure is that he Strait looks extremely narrow on the map.

Word - Telegraph
weigh B2 I'm familiar with the word, but don't remember.
[Collins]If you weigh the facts about a situation, you consider them very carefully before you make a decision, especially by comparing the various facts involved.
forensically < forensic it's a criminal word, but it is used in the article as[Collins]Forensic means relating to the legal profession.
impunity > with impunity phrase[Collins]If you say that someone does something with impunity, you disapprove of the fact that they are not punished for doing something bad.
malign - pronunciation. adjective. words beginning with "mal" look always evil. Aw, that is true [Collins]Mal- is added to words in order to form new words which describe things that are bad or unpleasant, or that are unsuccessful or imperfect.
arteries < artery this is a very important word. I may picked this in the blog before.

I'm not sure if the article is wrote by himself or his staff, but its structure is 5W1H type of writing. It can be referable.
Why
But why us?
But why now?
What’s next?

The war is not only Israel-Gaza war.
It's not pleasant that the situation requires extra cost to spend for the transport between Europe and Japan. The diversion also causes negative impacts, such as global warming, increase of defence budget in Japan.
I don't want to be embroiled in the dispute whose script has been written by Israel.
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eightfold

2024-01-14 18:10:25 | Reading - business
It was a scam as I thought.
It wasn't WhatsApp but sometimes I receive messages of recruiting by iMessage. I've got a message from whose company is "Mercer".
It's funny that I receive a message from UK postoffice regarding package delivery, but I wonder, for a moment, if the sender might saw my LinkedIn when I received a recruiting message. It is obvious that recruiters never contact by iMessage, though.

'I had £3,000 stolen via WhatsApp job scam message'
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67945171

Word
scammer
fraudster
Action Fraud https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/what-is-action-fraud It is written UK and national, but it looks Scotland is not their territory.
eightfold [Collins]-fold combines with numbers to form adverbs which say how much an amount has increased by. For example, if an amount increases fourfold, it is four times greater than it was originally.
find my feet < find one's feet [Collins]to become capable or confident, as in a new job
legitimate
groom - I cannot find this meaning in dictionaries. Similar meanings even it's not sexual in the article - [Oxford]illegal sexual act to children using social media
distraught
criminologist
upfront
DBS - Disclosure and Barring Service
Financial Ombudsman Service > ombudsman

We can listen the voice of the victim and the criminologist in MoneyBox programme, but it seems that the young victim is trying to be positive.

I've been receiving inquiries since I updated LinkedIn in 2020. They were all small or medium size UK companies, but were they all scams?

How to Avoid the Latest LinkedIn Scams in 2023
https://tech.co/news/linkedin-scams-to-avoid
My cases are different from this article's. I didn't know about Nihon Arubaito.
I was recruited by a rich business man who lives in Manhattan NY last night. I ignore words of drunks. It's all just talk in a bar.
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