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🎯 Someone bet against the Israeli stock market in the days before Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. Five days before the deadliest attack in Israel's history, a warning appeared on stock exchanges. CBS
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🌎 Swiss bank Banque Pictet admits hiding $5.6 billion of Americans’ money from IRS. Pictet Group has agreed to pay about $122.9 million in restitution and penalties. CNBC
🌎 Biden administration announces new financial strike force to curb deadly fentanyl trade. The strike force will be led by the Treasury Department’s top sanctions official and chief of the Internal Revenue Service’s criminal investigations unit. CNN
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🌎 FBI called in to help Cyprus investigate Russian sanctions dodging. The U.S. has deployed a team of experts to aid Cypriot authorities’ response to a rogue financial system serving Russian elite. ICIJ
🌎 Secret Talks, Oil and Sanctions: Inside a US-Venezuela Breakthrough. The day had finally arrived: Venezuela’s leaders and the opposition would come together to map out a plan toward free elections. Bloomberg
🌎 Western Firms Should Leave China Now. Through its deliberate and repeated actions, China is heading for an economic showdown with the US. Project Syndicate
🌎 He’s Got $250M to Spend on Communist Revolution. Fergie Chambers is heir to one of the biggest American family fortunes. He’s also a revolutionary with ‘actual bloodlust’ building a mysterious commune in Massachusetts. Free Press
🌎 Death, Denial, and a Region Under Siege – Part One. Juarez residents challenge Mexican government’s claim that cartel violence spares law-abiding citizens. Border Report
🌎 U.S. imposes sanctions on three Sudanese figures with ties to former leader Omar al-Bashir. Fighting between the army and the RSF has reduced Khartoum to an urban battlefield. AP
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