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🎯 Biden Is Unlikely to Reimpose Oil Sanctions on Venezuela. Nicolás Maduro has barred presidential candidates, but U.S. officials worry that new penalties would raise gas prices in election year. WSJ
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🌎 Crypto Fuels Russian Shadow Trade for Weapons Parts. How Russian middlemen used tether to avoid U.S. sanctions and procure parts for drones and other high-tech equipment. WSJ
🌎 Kinahan Cartel: Wanted Narco Boss Exposes Whereabouts by Posting Google Reviews. The U.S. is offering a $15M bounty for information leading to the financial disruption or arrest of Kinahan and his two sons. Bellingcat
🌎 Greece arrests member of gang that raked in $21B from fuel-product smuggling. The gang stole the fuel products that were loaded onto its oil tankers from ports in Latin America and switched off tracking transponders to deceive shipping brokers. Reuters
🌎 Unraveling Havana Syndrome: New evidence links the GRU's assassination Unit 29155 to mysterious attacks on Americans, at home and abroad. The Insider
🌎 Bank of Russia Sees No Alternative to Yuan for Its Reserves. There are limited alternatives to China’s currency for use as reserves because the financial instruments of nations that are friendly to Russia carry too many risks. Bloomberg
🌎 AT&T confirms data breach and resets millions of customer passcodes. Data including passcodes and social security numbers of AT&T customers has been available on the dark web for weeks. Verge
🌎 Government agents raid Peruvian President’s residence in Rolex watch investigation. Police waited in vain for someone to open the door late Friday, as dozens of armed officers carrying ballistic shields and batons looked on. AP
🌎 Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker. An investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by the notorious sex offender. Wired
🌎 Thwarted supply chain hack sets off alarm bells across DC. A GitHub user identified as Jia Tan spent two years building its bona fides in the developer community before exploiting that trust to take control of Xz. Politico
🌎 China Spy Agency Fingers Consultancies as Espionage Threat. Over the last year, Chinese authorities have raided several American companies’ offices and detained some of their Chinese employees. VOA
🌎 Watchdog reports dozens of charities to police over extremism concerns. The organizations are among more than 100 being investigated over breaches relating to Israel-Hamas war. Telegraph
🌎 U.S. updates export curbs on AI chips and tools to China. The U.S. on Friday revised rules aimed at making it harder for China to access U.S. AI chips and chipmaking tools. Reuters
🚩 Actual Investigations of Export Controls and Antiboycott Violations U.S. Commerce Dept
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