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🇰🇭 Cambodia drafts a hardline law to choke online scam centers. Cambodia said it drafted its first law targeting scam compounds. Officials vowed to shut the centers by April 30th. The scams push fake investments and romance cons that drain tens of $B yearly. Thousands of workers, many recruited with job lies, are forced into near-slavery. Information Minister Neth Pheaktra said the goal is to end safe-haven optics and curb money laundering. Organizers face 5 to 10 years in prison and 500M to 1B riels, plus $125K to $250K. Human trafficking or confinement raises penalties to 10 to 20 years and up to 2B riels, plus $500K. Deaths linked to a center can bring 15 to 30 years or life. Senior Minister Chhay Sinarith said 250 sites were targeted since July and about 200 were shut. Cambodia has repatriated almost 10K workers from 23 countries.

🇹🇷 Turkiye bets on back-channels as war crushes formal diplomacy. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said no serious initiative exists to restart talks. He said Iran feels betrayed after being attacked during negotiations. Still, Fidan said Tehran may accept “sensible” back-channel diplomacy. Turkiye tried to mediate before the strikes and is trying to stay out. Ankara has criticized both the American and Israeli attacks and Iran’s retaliatory strikes. Fidan said he is pressing Iran to stop hitting Gulf states that host American bases. Three missiles believed to be from Iran were intercepted over Turkiye, he said. Turkiye used North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) defenses and remains a NATO member. A southern Turkish air base supports NATO forces, including American troops. Fidan, a top aide to President Erdogan, is viewed as his successor.

🗳️ Trump struggles to sell a war, and politics starts biting back. Two weeks of war have brought American deaths, high oil, and shaken markets. President Donald Trump has grown more combative about news coverage. He wrote that media want America to lose the war. His broadcast regulator threatened licenses unless outlets “correct course.” Trump kept allies other than Israel in the dark about the plan, the report said. He now urges other countries to send warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz. Iran says it will keep targeting energy infrastructure and use the strait as leverage. Democrats have rallied around opposition with midterms in November. Kelly Dietrich of the National Democratic Training Committee (NDTC) said long-term planning is missing. Trump’s poll numbers are slipping as even supporters ask how this ends.

🌬️ Wild winds snap power lines and fan Nebraska firestorms. Powerful winds swept east from the Great Lakes region. About 346K customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan were still without power. The National Weather Service logged a 66 mph gust at Pittsburgh International Airport. Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport saw winds hit 85 mph. The gusts ripped signage and dropped trees onto homes and cars. A school roof in Niles, Illinois, was severely damaged. In Nebraska, wind-driven grass fires killed one person in Arthur County. The Morrill County fire burned at least 735 square miles across four counties. Officials said at least 12 structures were destroyed, and winds blocked containment. Gov. Jim Pillen toured scorched areas as crews fought fronts.

🥧 Pi Day proves 3.14159 still runs modern science. Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Its digits never end, but March 14th turns it into a holiday. Physicist Larry Shaw launched the celebration in 1988. He started it at San Francisco’s Exploratorium science museum. Aerospace engineer Davoyan uses pi in propulsion research for faster spacecraft. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) uses pi to model Earth’s orbit. Davoyan noted NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1977. Voyager 1 reached interstellar space in 2012, and Voyager 2 in 2018. NASA relies on pi to design antennas and decode returning signals. UCLA bioengineering chair Dino Di Carlo uses pi to size droplets that help find cancer-blocking antibodies.

🚱 Potomac sewer line restarts after a 250M-gallon spill. District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) restored flow on a ruptured line. The Potomac Interceptor is a 72-inch diameter pipe. It broke January 19th in Montgomery County, Maryland. DC Water said 250M gallons of untreated sewage spilled in five days. Crews diverted waste and drained the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O Canal) beside the rupture. On Saturday, a gate was raised to resume full flow after testing. DC Water said the canal was fully drained as site restoration continued. A class action lawsuit filed March 6th alleges negligence by the utility. Plaintiff Nicholas Lailas says river use and enjoyment were impaired. Public update meetings are scheduled next week in Bethesda.

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