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.”
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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
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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
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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)
* Other high-profile individuals, including intelligence defectors and dissidents
Summary
* The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has declassified a long-classified memorandum related to the targeted assassinations of Vladimir Putin's political adversaries.
* The memo sheds light on the suspected involvement of Putin in the mysterious deaths of his critics.
* Prominent critics of Putin have died under suspicious circumstances, including falling out of windows, poisoning, and committing suicide in ways that defy logic.
* Anonymous US intelligence officials have long suspected that some of these deaths were part of a campaign by Putin to assassinate his enemies.
* The declassified memo is a result of nearly eight years of public records efforts.
* The memo is a significant development in understanding the extent of Putin's alleged involvement in the targeted killings of his critics.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-11-22/putin-s-assassination-targets-revealed-in-declassified-memo?sref=xuVirdpv
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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.
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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 in the ongoing war, and prompted Ukraine to request new air defense capabilities from Washington to help intercept this type of missile.
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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.
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