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Willem Marx

London

Video and Print Journalist at Freelance

London-based journalist, Author - Balochistan at a Crossroads

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  • 1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Willem Marx

    In hindsight, I am still not sure why the operators of the Danish-flagged MV Coco allowed me onboard. By the time I arrived last June, the vessel had been sailing for several weeks in the Bismarck Sea, a part of Papua New Guinea’s territorial waters, digging chunks of metal-rich deposits out of the ocean floor with a 12-ton hydraulic claw. The crew was testing the feasibility of mining seafloor deposits full of copper and some gold.

  • 1 week ago | mprnews.org | Willem Marx

    Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has died aged 89, after a career spanning decades that produced dozens of works, courted controversy, provoked powerful interests in his native Peru and earned him the Nobel Prize for literature.

  • 2 weeks ago | forewordreviews.com | Willem Marx

    Ron Charach FriesenPress (24pp)978-1-03-832956-1 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 About an avian community’s efforts to honor the dead, Who Killed Cock Robin? is a lovely picture book. Drawing on a classic nursery rhyme, Ron Charach’s mournful picture book Who Killed Cock Robin? follows as birds come together to perform the last rites for one of their own. A robin is shot with a bow and arrow by a sparrow.

  • 3 weeks ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Willem Marx

    Political leaders from around the world have reacted with shock and – in some cases – apparent anger at President Trump's announcement of tariffs from between 10% and 54% against products from countries across the globe.

  • 1 month ago | forewordreviews.com | Willem Marx

    A Separation and Divorce Story for Parents and Children Eileen Beltzner FriesenPress (216pp)978-1-03-831161-0 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 Modeling healthy parent-child relationships and emotional responses in the wake of a divorce, Two Times as Much Love is a warm novel. In Eileen Beltzner’s edifying novel Two Times as Much Love, a child and his parents survive a divorce and learn to manage their feelings.

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Willem Marx
Willem Marx @WillemMarx
16 Apr 25

The owners of a controversial mining license - partly financed by a sanctioned Russian oligarch - have begun extracting valuable metals from the ocean floor in Papua New Guinea, causing consternation for local villagers: https://t.co/pp8othS2Mw

Willem Marx
Willem Marx @WillemMarx
20 Sep 24

RT @NewsHour: The only country on earth to allow deep-sea mining is Papua New Guinea. Now the impoverished Pacific nation is struggling to…

Willem Marx
Willem Marx @WillemMarx
19 Sep 24

RT @BW: A former IRS agent turned Binance executive has been stuck in a Nigerian prison for more than six months on money laundering charge…