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Russia floods: waters rising in two cities and thousands evacuated after dam bursts
Federal emergency declared in Orenburg region and at least 6,000 homes inundated after Ural River overflows
Flood waters were rising in two cities in Russia’s Ural mountains on Sunday after Europe’s third-longest river burst through a dam, flooding at least 6,000 homes and forcing thousands of people to flee.
The Ural River, which rises in the Ural Mountains and flows into the Caspian Sea, swelled several metres in just hours on Friday and burst through a dam embankment in Orsk – one of the hardest-hit cities – 1,800km (1,100 miles) east of Moscow.
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Coinbase had over $1 billion in quarterly profit after crypto-trading explosion. But costs are rising too.
A boom in crypto trading during the first quarter led cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global to a dramatic reversal of fortunes from the prior year, but the company warned of “elevated expenses” in the second quarter as it tries to handle the flood.MarketWatch - Business -
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