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A drone strike on a vessel in Romanian waters has Romanian authorities scrambling, with search and rescue operations now underway along the Black Sea coast. The attack, the latest in a series of strikes, has raised serious concerns that Russia's war in Ukraine is no longer contained within Ukrainian borders.
Meanwhile, in Maine, families are facing a brutal choice this winter. Heating oil prices have surged from three dollars and thirty-four cents per gallon a year ago to nearly six dollars today, a jump of roughly seventy-nine percent. Maine relies on heating oil more than any other state, and residents are now weighing whether to pay for warmth or food.
On a lighter note from the world of startups, Intero Biosystems walked away from TechCrunch Disrupt two thousand twenty-six as the winner of Startup Battlefield, beating out one hundred ninety-nine other competitors to claim the one hundred thousand dollar grand prize. Details on what exactly Intero Biosystems does remain sparse, but the win puts them firmly on the radar of investors watching the space.
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