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Slush 100 finalist ‘Immigram’ has win revoked after critics point to founders’ citizenship The organizers of the annual Helsinki-based Slush start-up and tech conference have disqualified this year’s competition winner, ‘Immigram’, from the contest after it was revealed that the founders had ties to Russian investors and held Russian passports.
The development comes amid a US-led operation against Yemen’s Houthi militants, who have been attacking commercial ships recently Iran’s Alborz destroyer crossed the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and entered the Red Sea on Monday, the country’s state-run IRNA and Tasnim news agencies have reported. The deployment followed a deadly encounter between US warships and Yemen’s Houthi militants…