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🇪🇸 The pastel-hued village where Russian pilot Maksim Kuzminov settled on the coast of Spain must have seemed a world away from the war he thought he had escaped last year when he defected to Ukraine. But the discovery of his bullet-riddled body last week appeared to deliver a…

The first F-16 fighter jets should be delivered to Ukraine's air force by this summer, Denmark's Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said. His comments came as Copenhagen approved a further €228 million military aid package to Ukraine. Read the full story: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN

🇨🇳 A trove of leaked documents from a Chinese state-linked hacking group shows that Beijing’s intelligence and military groups are carrying out large-scale, systematic cyber intrusions against foreign governments, companies and infrastructure — exploiting what the hackers claim are vulnerabilities in software systems from companies including Microsoft, Apple and…

🇯🇵 A man identified by federal prosecutors as a leader of Japan’s Yakuza organized crime syndicate was charged on Wednesday with trafficking uranium and plutonium from Myanmar with the expectation that Iran would use the material to make nuclear weapons. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was once the toast of Washington as a key ally in the war on drugs. Now he is headed to trial in New York on allegations of helping move 500 tons of cocaine through his country. Prosecutors say Hernández provided cartel members with armed…

Traders placed an unusually large number of bets on two obscure companies at the start of last week, days before a disclosure by chipmaker Nvidia triggered a furious rally in their shares. Nano-X Imaging, a small Israeli medical device maker, doubled after Nvidia detailed its position in the company…

Sam Bankman-Fried, the jailed founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is due back in court on Wednesday for the first time since his November fraud conviction for a hearing in Manhattan over his new lawyer's possible conflict of interest. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

🔊 Today on Reuters World News daily podcast: Another US Gaza veto at the UN The hackers are hacked – cybergang Lockbit disrupted Chinese fast fashion snaps up space on cargo planes Listen now #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

🇮🇱 Israel kept up its deadly bombardment of war-torn Gaza as Washington vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that called for a ceasefire in the Palestinian territory. Global powers trying to navigate a way out of the spiralling crisis have so far come up short, and mediation efforts have so…

Alexander Smirnov—who was arrested last week for allegedly making a false statement about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden—had contact with a number of Russian officials and admitted Russian intelligence officials were involved in passing him a story about Hunter Biden, according to a court document…

One of the cryptocurrency industry’s highest-profile hedge fund firms has been accused of ‘criminal’ mismanagement and raided by a Swiss prosecutor, in a dispute with an investor over losses suffered following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. Get the full story here: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

🌎 The UN Security Council will vote on a new draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, despite threat of a third US veto on such a text. The document, prepared by Algeria, "demands an immediate humanitarian ceasefire that must be respected by all parties." The vote

📰 The High Court in London will begin hearing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's final UK appeal against extradition to the United States to face trial over publishing secret military and diplomatic files. Washington wants the 52-year-old Australian citizen extradited after he was charged there multiple times between

Spot bitcoin ETFs are finally here, attracting billions and challenging all pre-existing crypto-based ETFs. Does that spell the end for bitcoin futures funds? Not so fast. ProShares is doubling down. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

🇺🇲 Ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Anthropic, the well-funded AI startup, is testing a technology to detect when users of its GenAI chatbot ask about political topics and redirect those users to “authoritative” sources of voting information. Called Prompt Shield, the technology, which relies on a combination…

🇰🇵 As war in Ukraine grinds toward its third year and fighting in Gaza inflames a broader crisis across the Middle East, global security observers are keeping a close watch on another part of the world – North Korea, where Kim Jong Un’s latest provocations are raising questions about his military…

🇩🇪🇺🇦 Germany will provide long-term military support and training to Ukraine "to fully restore" the country's territorial integrity under an agreement signed between the leaders of both nations today. Full story: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

🇯🇵🇺🇲 TOKYO - Sony opens new tab to partner with U.S.-based Seagate Technology on mass production of hard disk drives (HDDs) to meet growing AI demand, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday. Sony Semiconductor Solutions is expected to start mass production in May of lasers used in the drives, and…

🇺🇲 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel next week to Brazil and Argentina, where he is set to meet with both countries' leaders to discuss "bilateral and global issues," the State Department said on Friday. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…