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🎯 Hamas financier holds stake in Cyprus company that mines Egyptian gold. Sudanese businessman Abdelbasit Hamza is accused of being “a central figure in Hamas’ investment portfolio.” ICIJ
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🌎 Chips From Texas Instruments and Other U.S. Makers Flow Into Russia Despite Ban. Shipments of the semiconductors surged in the first half of the year, many of them traveling through Hong Kong along the way. Bloomberg
🌎 Man pleads guilty in scheme to inflate securities value of N.J. deli to $100M. In 2022, Patten was indicted along with a father-son duo to bid up the sandwich shop’s share price illegally, then cash out. Philadelphia Inquirer
🌎 If You're in Crypto, You're a Criminal. Senator Liz Warren has revved up her anti-crypto army by going after the revolving door between blockchain and Washington D.C. CoinDesk
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🌎 Court Freezes $1B of Assets of Three Arrows Capital Founders. The worldwide order by a British Virgin Islands court applies to Su Zhu, Kyle Davies and Davies' wife, Kelly Chen. CoinDesk
🌎 German police take down Kingdom Market, a darknet emporium of illicit goods. German law enforcement seized the servers of the darknet marketplace, a bazaar for drugs, malware, fake documents and other tools for cybercriminals. Record
🚩 Urgent: New Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild Hacker News
🌎 How your holiday diamond may be funding Russia’s war. About a third of the world’s diamonds come from Russia, earning the Kremlin at least a billion dollars a year as it wages war in Ukraine. WaPo
🌎 China bans export of rare earth processing tech over national security. China has significantly tightened rules guiding exports of several metals this year, in an escalating battle with the West over control of critical minerals. Reuters
🌎 Top US retirement funds trigger national security fears after sinking $68B into China market over last 3 years. Dozens of public American school systems and universities’ endowment funds have also invested more than $7.6 billion in Chinese companies. NY Post
🌎 Wave of Violence Terrorizes Mexico as Criminals Kill With Impunity. The latest killings have left dozens of Mexicans dead and few held accountable. NYT
🌎 U.S. charges Hezbollah operative who allegedly planned 1994 Argentina bombing that killed 85. The indictment alleges El Reda, a dual Colombian-Lebanese citizen, relayed information to Hezbollah operatives the day the bombing was carried out. CBS
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