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🎯 US tackles loopholes in curbs on AI chip exports to China. The U.S. will take steps to prevent American chipmakers from selling semiconductors to China that circumvent government restrictions. Bloomberg
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🌎 The Trading Tycoon Steering Russia’s Global Oil Business. Most of Lakhani’s Russia-related operations take place in countries not implementing the G-7’s price cap on exports, designed to block oil sold above $60 from critical Western-provided services such as shipping insurance. Bloomberg
🌎 Executions, bombings & child assassins. How Sweden became a gangland hell ruled by druglords Kurdish Fox & The Greek. Sun
🌎 Who funds Hamas? A global network of crypto, cash and charities. Hamas, sanctioned as a terrorist organization by the US and UK, has increasingly uses cryptocurrencies, credit cards or contrived trade deals to avoid mounting international restriction. Reuters
🌎 Former Bank of China boss arrested on bribery charges. The 62-year-old is one of the most senior bankers to be ensnared in President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption probe into China's $60 trillion financial sector. BBC
🌎 Why sanctions to punish China and Russia keep failing to achieve US goals. The way U.S. sanctions are applied deepens mistrust and creates avenues for partnerships outside of the U.S.-led global financial system. USA Today
🌎 New evidence may destroy Biden’s defense in his classified documents case. This month, the sudden appearance of Special Counsel Robert Hur caused as much of a stir as Bigfoot suddenly appearing on Pennsylvania Avenue. Hill
🌎 The Crypto Exchange Moving Money for Criminal Gangs, Rich Russians and a Hamas-Linked Terror Group. Garantex’s international pipeline helps defy Treasury sanctions by channeling rubles to crypto to dollars. Customers line up with bags of cash. WSJ
🌎 The Real Estate Tycoon Whose Fingerprints Are on the Menendez Indictment. Fred Daibes, the New Jersey real estate tycoon at the center of an international scandal threatening the career of Senator Robert Menendez, has found his way out of more than one tough spot over the course of his tumultuous life. NYT
🌎 US says North Korea delivered 1,000 containers of equipment and munitions to Russia for Ukraine war. White House spokesman John Kirby said that the U.S. believes Kim is seeking sophisticated Russian weapons technologies in return for the munitions to boost North Korea's military and nuclear program. AP
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