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The European Union, the U.S. and other wealthy countries raised their offer of climate funding for developing nations to $300 billion a year at COP29 on Saturday, in a bid to unlock increasingly tense negotiations already a day into overtime #Press | #PlebChain…

The Singaporeans are giving out free beer made from recycled toilet water at the COP29 climate summit. “At first their eyes widen,” one of the leaders of Singapore’s youth delegation said. “Then we reassure them. They’re usually coming back the next day for another.” #Press | #PlebChain They are…

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is preparing to announce that he has selected Scott Bessent, who runs macro hedge fund Key Square Group, as the next US Treasury secretary, according to people familiar with the matter #Press | #PlebChain…

U.S. government researchers have found that a widely prescribed asthma drug originally sold by Merck & Co may be linked to serious mental health problems for some patients, according to a scientific presentation reviewed by Reuters #Press | #PlebChain…

Declassified memo reveals Putin's assassination targets. The list includes: Alexander Litvinenko (poisoned in 2006) Boris Nemtsov (shot in 2015) Mikhail Lesin (died from blunt force trauma in 2015) Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev (killed in 2004) Alexander Perepilichnyy (reportedly assassinated with a biological toxin in 2012) Oleksandr Bednov (killed in 2015)

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned that there is a "serious and real" threat of global war after this week's major escalation in the conflict in Ukraine. #Press | #PlebChain…

By launching a new nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile at Ukraine on Thursday, Russia was threatening Kyiv and its Western allies with the aim of stopping Ukrainian strikes with Western-supplied weapons on Russian territory — or else. The attack has spurred fears in the West over a major escalation…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will invite Benjamin Netanyahu to Hungary as a middle finger to the International Criminal Court over its arrest warrant for the Israeli leader. #Press | #PlebChain…

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, could face criminal charges over claims that he was involved in plans to cling to power after losing the 2022 election. #Press | #PlebChain…

U.S. officials warned on Thursday that Russia may be targeting American defense companies in a potentially stepped-up sabotage campaign. #Press | #PlebChain…

The International Criminal Court in The Hague said it had issued arrest warrants for Hamas leader Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, also known as Mohammed Deif, and Israel's President Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant #Press | #PlebChain…

Gautam Adani, the billionaire chair of Indian conglomerate Adani Group and one of the world's richest people, has been indicted in New York over his role in an alleged multibillion-dollar bribery and fraud scheme, US prosecutors said #Press | #PlebChain…

President-elect Donald Trump’s team is holding discussions with the digital asset industry about whether to create a new White House post solely dedicated to cryptocurrency policy, according to people familiar with the transition efforts. #Press | #PlebChain…

President Vladimir Putin lowered Russia’s threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, a move whose timing appeared designed to show the Kremlin could respond aggressively to Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory with U.S. missiles. #Press | #PlebChain…

The Belgian Surrealist painter René Magritte has become the latest member of that exclusive club of artists whose work has sold for more than $100 million at auction. #Press | #ArtStr…