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🎯 Inside the Kinahan crime cartel and their €1 billion empire. Kinahan clients include Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, Hezbollah, and Iran’s intelligence services. Sunday Times
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🌎 Iraq's Kataeb Hezbollah says attacks aim to 'drain' US, sanctions 'ridiculous'. The U.S. on Friday issued sanctions against several KH members and against another Iran-backed Shiite militia, accusing them of being involved in attacks against the U.S. and its partners in Iraq and Syria. Reuters
🌎 Inside Los Chapitos: El Chapo’s Godson ‘Mini-Lic’ Speaks Out. López Serrano voluntarily surrendered to U.S. authorities at the Mexicali-Calexico border crossing six months after El Chapo was extradited from Mexico to a prison in Manhattan in 2017. VICE
🌎 A Ransomware Gang Wanted Its Victim to Pay Up. So It Went to the SEC. New SEC rules require that hacked companies disclose materially important cybersecurity incidents to investors within four days of discovering them. Ars
🌎 Russia's 'ghost ships' could be targeted at a sea choke point in a bid to enforce the West's oil price cap. Russia sends millions of barrels of crude oil through a choke point at the Danish straits. Insider
🌎 Yemen’s Houthi rebels hijack an Israeli-linked ship in the Red Sea and take 25 crew members hostage. The Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they hijacked the ship over its connection to Israel and would continue to target ships in international waters until the end of the Hamas-Israel conflict. AP
🌎 Binance parts ways with multiple anti-crime staffers. A senior counter-terrorism official joins the growing list to leave the crypto exchange in recent months. Blockworks
🌎 A four-pronged strategy US must deploy to defeat world’s Number 1 state sponsor of terrorism. Biden administration's strategy of Iran appeasement invites even more attacks on US troops. Fox
🌎 Two Men Found Guilty of Conspiracy to Sell Sanctioned Iranian Petroleum. The men planned to mask the origins of the petroleum and sell it to a refinery in China. DOJ
🌎 China, Chips and Archery: Inside a Mystery AI Event in the Utah Mountains. More than 100 AI executives and insiders, venture capitalists and government officials listened to talks about the AI arms race between the US and China. Bloomberg
🌎 American arrested in Venezuela just days after Biden administration eases oil sanctions. Some former officials say Wright’s arrest is just the latest example of Maduro acting in bad faith. AP
🌎 How a Hack Shook Wall Street’s Multitrillion-Dollar Foundations. The recent hack of a Chinese banking giant reignited Wall Street’s long-running fears of disruptions to the short-term cash markets underpinning the global financial system. WSJ
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