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🎯 Hamas Has Another Sinwar. And He’s Rebuilding. Under Yahya Sinwar’s younger brother, Hamas is recruiting new fighters in Gaza, drawing Israel into a war of attrition. WSJ
🌎 U.S. tightens its grip on AI chip flows across the globe Reuters
🌎 Top Asian Oil Buyers in Turmoil as U.S. Ratchets Up Sanctions Bloomberg
🌎 Germany’s Baerbock cautions on Syria as EU signals sanctions relief Politico
🌎 The truth behind your £10 dress: Inside the Chinese factories fueling Shein’s success BBC
🌎 Federal agents find sophisticated ‘narco tunnel’ allowing cartels to sneak drugs – and humans – across the border NYP
🌎 FinCEN Asks Supreme Court to Reinstate Law Requiring Ownership Information WSJ
🌎 U.S. Supreme Court appears inclined to uphold TikTok ban-or-sale law Semafor
🌎 Biden admin delays enforcement of order blocking Nippon Steel, U.S. Steel deal Reuters
🌎 Prosecutors seek 15-year sentence for disgraced former NJ Senator Menendez Fox
🌎 The secret life of a legendary hacker who received a rare presidential pardon Semafor
🌎 Downfall of Dark Bank, the organized crime ‘banker’ who helped launder over €1B Le Monde
🌎 Night Falls in Venezuela Free Press
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💥 Putin’s passport trap: The Cubans caught in Moscow’s endless war Politico
💥 U.S. probe finds China unfairly dominates shipbuilding, paving way for penalties Reuters
💥 Russian nationals arrested by U.S., ran crypto mixers Blender and Sinbad Record
💥 Tougher U.S. sanctions to curb Russian oil supply to China and India Reuters
💥 China allows Iran to begin shipping oil from storage Iran Intl
💥 Zambia’s SEC sanctions Standard Chartered over China property bond mis-selling Reuters
💥 Germany tows disabled Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker adrift in Baltic Sea CNN
💥 Gazprom Neft given 45 days to exit ownership of Serbia’s NIS Reuters
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💸 Professional athletes’ homes are still getting broken into. Here’s how the FBI says the thieves operate. CNN
💸 Corruption Scandals In Argentina Link Milei, Cristina Kirchner And Mauricio Macri Forbes
💸 The Mafia’s Grip on a Brazilian Lottery Seemed Invincible. Until the Apps Came. NYT
💸 Italy releases Iranian citizen held on a US warrant over drone attack in Jordan AP
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🔐 A company that tracks and sells Americans’ location data has seemingly been hacked NBC
🔐 Mango Markets shuts down following SEC settlement Cointelegraph
🔐 Cybercrime Damages Highlight Need for Scalable Decentralized Infrastructure CoinDesk
🔐 Do Kwon’s Terra Trial Set for 2026 – Here’s What You Need to Know Decrypt
🔐 Singapore labels Polymarket illegal gambling, restricts site access DLN
🔐 New York sues to recover $2M in crypto stolen in remote job scams Record
🔐 Razzlekhan spits her final bars before serving Bitfinex money laundering sentence DLN
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🎯 Yakuza leader admits trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar. Takeshi Ebisawa tried to sell uranium and weapons-grade plutonium to a faux Iranian general who wanted them for nuclear weapons. CNN
🌎 Britain plans new sanctions laws to target people-smuggling gangs Reuters
🌎 Orbán’s Key Minister Hit by U.S. Magnitsky Sanctions CEPA
🌎 Scams, crashes and calamity: Departing Wall Street regulator warns of crypto risks Politico
🌎 UBS Close to Large Settlement Over Credit Suisse Tax Case Reuters
🌎 China’s DeepSeek Shows Why Trump’s Trade War Will Be Hard to Win Bloomberg
🌎 Russia’s Economic Gamble: The Hidden Costs of War-Driven Growth MT
🌎 House passes International Criminal Court sanctions bill in response to Netanyahu warrant CNN
🌎 The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West Free Press
🌎 Bayview Asset Management Enters Into $20M Cyber Settlement WSJ
🌎 Nicolás Maduro is set to be Venezuela’s president until 2031 AP
🌎 Far-right group Blood and Honour has assets frozen by government BBC
🌎 A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew Krebs
🌎 What to Know About BRICS and Its Growing Clout Bloomberg
🎯 U.S. transfers $50M in forfeited assets to Estonia for help in Danske Bank prosecution. Danske pleaded guilty in late 2022 to bank fraud conspiracy, forfeiting $2B to settle the U.S. investigation. Reuters
🌎 U.S. determines Sudan’s RSF committed genocide, imposes sanctions on leader AP
🔥 POD: Mapping Illicit Business Networks With Varun Vira DESIGNATED
🌎 How Iran Moves Sanctioned Oil Around the World Reuters
🌎 Iran reports progress on accessing frozen assets despite sanctions Iran International
🌎 The Pentagon Says Tech Giant Tencent Is a Chinese Military Company. Its Founder Helps Yale ‘Form New Partnerships’ in China. Free Beacon
🌎 China’s Shandong Port, entry point for most sanctioned oil, bans US-designated vessels Reuters
🌎 Ted Farnsworth, Architect of Failed MoviePass Plan, Pleads Guilty to Fraud Variety
🌎 Chinese Actor Suspected to Have Been Lured into Myanmar Scam Center Found Bloomberg
🌎 Pig butchering victim sues banks for allowing scammers to open accounts Record
🔥 POD: Uncovering Pig Butchering with Erin West DESIGNATED
🌎 U.S. imposes sanctions on senior Hungarian government minister Guardian
🌎 Bitcoin Investor Ordered to Reveal Access Codes to $124M Bloomberg
🌎 CoinSwitch launches $70M recovery fund for WazirX hack victims Cointelegraph
🌎 BlackRock may exit woke business climate group Net Zero Alliance NYP
🌎 Why Credit Suisse Was a Magnet for Scandals Bloomberg
🌎 How an FBI Sting Stopped a Russian Smuggler but Not His Hong Kong Supply Route WSJ
🌎 How Biden Allowed Iran To Rake in Illicit Oil Cash Amid Tehran’s Terror Spree Free Beacon
🌎 Computers of Senior U.S. Treasury Leaders Accessed in Hack Bloomberg
🌎 U.S. sanctions prominent Chinese cyber company for role in Flax Typhoon attacks Record
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🇨🇳 How China Is Advancing in AI Despite U.S. Chip Restrictions Time
🇨🇳 Supreme Court to hear fight over looming U.S. ban on TikTok Reuters
🇨🇳 White House Rushes to Finish Cyber Order After China Hacks Bloomberg
🇨🇳 China Vows to Deepen Graft Fight in Areas Like Finance, Energy Bloomberg
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🇷🇺 Biden set to push new Russia sanctions before Trump era begins Reuters
🇷🇺 U.S. seizes luxury Miami condos linked to sanctioned Russian oligarch UPI
🇷🇺 Japan imposes new sanctions on Russia AP
🇷🇺 Montreal man sentenced in U.S. for exporting weapon components to Russia CBC
🇷🇺 European imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia at ‘record levels’ Guardian
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💸 Nigeria, US sign deal to return $52.88M in assets forfeited by ex-official Reuters
💸 Ex-FBI informant who made up Ukraine bribery story about Biden gets 6 years in prison Fortune
💸 France Indicts Founder of Notorious Website Used in Pelicot Rape Case Guardian
💸 INTERPOL publishes first Silver Notice targeting criminal assets Interpol
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🔐 Russia seizes $10M in Bitcoin from ex-official in bribery case Cointelegraph
🔐 The School Shootings Were Fake. The Terror Was Real. Wired
🔐 Coinbase Receives CFTC Subpoena for Customer Data Related to Polymarket Decrypt
🔐 PowerSchool says hackers stole students’ sensitive data, including Social Security numbers TC
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🚚 Ruthless Mexican cartel threatens to kill famed singer CBS
🚚 Outgoing ICE director says Biden ‘absolutely’ should have acted sooner to tighten the border NBC
🚚 Sheinbaum’s Support Slips as Mexicans Decry Crime and Corruption Bloomberg
📌 China’s Oppression of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang
📌 How Are U.S. Financial Sanctions Developed?
📌 Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program: A Dangerous Evolution
📌 Top 10 Ways Money Launderers Are Caught Red-Handed
📌 What are the Top 10 Books on Corruption, Kleptocracy, and Illicit Financing?
📌 What Are 10 Ways China Is Stealing Intellectual Property?
📌 These are Mexico’s Most Powerful Drug Cartels
🔑 Cryptocurrency Regulation Tracker Atlantic Council
🔑 COMTRADE: Using Trade Data to Uncover Fraud and Smuggling OCCRP
🔑 2022 Rule of Law Index World Justice Project
🔑 Global Organized Crime Index Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
🔑 Anti-Corruption Helpdesk Transparency International
🔑 Flight Intelligence for Investigators Icarus Flights, C4ADS
🔑 Global Legislative Map: Violent Extremist and Terrorist-Related Online Content Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
