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Russian fuel shipments to an Indonesian terminal near Singapore tripled in 2025. A tanker faked its location while loading there, and the terminal kept changing hands.
Russian fuel shipments to an Indonesian terminal near Singapore tripled in 2025. A tanker faked its location while loading there, and the terminal kept changing hands.
Foreign investors are betting on Venezuela’s future. On the streets of Caracas, the promised recovery feels far away — and questions are growing over where the country’s oil money is going.
Western sanctions were meant to dismantle Coral Energy, one of the biggest traders of Russian oil. Now Istanbul prosecutors are being asked to investigate whether the network is behind the little-known Dubai company that just bought more than 100 fuel stations in Turkey.
He’d never been to the club. Still, the system flagged him. We traced it to Patron Scan—a network scanning IDs, capturing faces, and sharing data across venues. Get flagged once, and you can be denied entry in venues across the world, without ever knowing why.
The U.S. government has been secretly testing a device that emits pulsed radiofrequency energy, according to new reporting. The portable system, acquired by the Department of Homeland Security, was tested for over a year and contains components sourced from Russia.
Alex Saab may control $60 billion in Bitcoin for the Maduro regime. As Trump's naval blockade tightens, the real battle is being fought on the blockchain.
The conclusion of our Christmas true crime story. November 2, 1994: the phone call, the gunshot, and the aftermath that changed New York's Christmas tree business forever.
A true crime story about Christmas trees, the South Bronx, and a stubborn Florida farmer who refused to pay tribute to the Gambino family.
For seventy years, American diplomats have fallen sick in patterns that trace back to invisible energy fields. Each time, Washington chose the same response: deny, deflect, and bury the evidence. From Moscow to Havana, the government knew more than it ever told its own people.
Sexual violence in Sudan is not collateral damage: it is a weapon of war. In this episode, Sudanese activist Hala Alkarib explains how rape, abduction, and sexual slavery are systematically used to terrorize communities, force displacement, and seize land in a war that the world barely talks about.
For years, the world has struggled to grasp what’s unfolding in China’s far-west — a region Beijing calls Xinjiang and its people call East Turkistan. Behind surveillance and secrecy, an entire population is being targeted in what scholars call “the forgotten genocide.”
As Washington and London tighten sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia’s oil keeps flowing — rerouted, reflagged, and hidden at sea. We track sanctioned tankers and LNG cargoes in real time to reveal how Moscow’s “shadow fleet” evades Western crackdown.
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