The criminal South African fixer for former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is at the center of a web of front companies across Asia. This network has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy up stakes in prominent Thai firms, raising questions about the source of funds.
European countries are threatening to reimpose sanctions on Iran. Tehran's illicit oil tankers have been fueling nuclear ambitions and terrorism, using ship-to-ship transfers, fake flags, and Chinese buyers to skirt sanctions.
1,500+ U.S. personnel suffered brain injuries from invisible attacks. Now we have the brain scans, the science, and evidence the attacks stopped when Russia invaded Ukraine. The official verdict was wrong—this investigation isn’t over.
Schizophrenia that vanishes with cancer treatment. Project 2025's secret FOIA-dodging videos. Alien: Earth brings xenomorphs to TV. Plus: crypto torture in Manhattan, novels that matter, and podcasts actually worth your weekend.
Indian regulators are widening a probe into secretive trading firm Jane Street, launching an investigation into whether the firm and other foreign high-frequency traders gained an unfair advantage through privileged access to proprietary trading data.
Trafficked workers in Southeast-Asian compounds run crypto romance scams siphoning $3 B. Now U.S. prosecutor Erin West’s Operation Shamrock is prying open the ‘pig-butchering’ machine—and fighting to free victims. Full story inside.
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