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🎯 FTX Sues Crypto Firm Bybit to Recover Assets Worth $953 Million. Mirana pressured FTX employees to fulfill its withdraw requests as regular customers of FTX waited hours trying to get money off the exchange as it collapsed. Bloomberg
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🌎 Hezbollah operations in South America. The arrest in Brazil of two people accused of planning terrorist attacks has put a spotlight on South American operations by Lebanese group Hezbollah. AFP
🌎 ‘A Monster’: Super Meth and Other Drugs Push Crisis Beyond Opioids. The non-opioid drugs include those relatively new to the street, like the animal tranquilizer xylazine, which can char human flesh. NYT
🌎 UN Teachers Celebrated Hamas Massacre. The teachers of hate at UNRWA are largely funded by Western countries who contribute the lion’s share of UNRWA’s $1.6 billion-dollar budget. UN Watch
🌎 Hamas Needed a New Way to Get Money From Iran. It Turned to Crypto. The pivot to digital currencies helped Hamas receive large sums from Iran in the two years preceding the attacks on Israel. WSJ
🌎 Carbon credits at risk of link to Uyghur forced labor bought by BP and Spotify. Research found potentially coercive labor transfers that involved hundreds of people at two locations within 30 miles of the project. Guardian
🌎 Portugal’s Costa apologizes for cash seized at his official residence. Despite a far-reaching corruption scandal, the prime minister insists the country remains safe for foreign investors. Politico
🌎 EU weighs sanctions against Iran over Israel-Hamas war. The EU is discussing ramping up sanctions against Iran over its support for Hamas — but there is a wide split among EU diplomats. Politico
🌎 Race to host EU’s money-laundering watchdog hots up. Heft, geopolitics and money-laundering prowess are all coming into play as cities from Madrid to Vilnius jostle for a new agency. Euro News
🌎 More than $100M stolen from Poloniex crypto platform. The controversial company was founded in 2014 before being acquired in 2018 by Circle — the crypto giant behind the U.S. dollar pegged coin USDC. Record
🌎 Inside Wall Street's scramble after ICBC hack. The blackout left the brokerage temporarily owing BNY Mellon $9 billion, an amount many times larger than its net capital. Reuters
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