A US judge has sentenced a Chinese national to 20 years in prison for laundering funds from Cambodian cyber scam compounds
That's the maximum sentence, btw
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Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Role in $73 Million Global Cryptocurrency Investment Scam
A dual national of China and St. Kitts and Nevis was sentenced in absentia today in the Central District of California to the statutory maximum of 20 years in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in an international cryptocurrenc…www.justice.gov
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New report claims that after a close Orban ally bought Euronews, the TV network turned into a propaganda machine for autocratic regimes
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🇰🇪 🇷🇺 #Kenya says it will talk to #Russia over growing reports that its citizens are being recruited to fight in the war in Ukraine.
Speaking to the BBC, Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi called the practice "unacceptable and clandestine", and said Nairobi had shut down illegal recruiters and would urge Moscow to sign a deal banning the conscription of Kenyan soldiers.
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Kenya to confront Russia over 'unacceptable' use of Kenyan soldiers
Nairobi says it has shut down illegal recruiters and will urge Moscow to sign a deal banning conscription.Peter Mwangangi (BBC News)
10 February 1929 | A Polish Jewish girl, Maryla Grinbaum, was born in Krakow.
She was imprisoned in KL Plaszow, and in May 1944 she was transferred to Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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🎧/📖 The development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: auschwitz.org/en/education/e-l…
RE: mstdn.social/@iryna/1160461827…
I literally feel sick from these thoughts.
Iryna Voichuk (@iryna@mstdn.social)
A few days ago, a russian Molniya drone struck the place where my dad was at that very moment. He wasn’t injured purely by chance. He told me only today.Iryna Voichuk (Mastodon 🐘)
This email arrived with impeccable timing.
"Don't worry" you say?
I'm not worried, I'm absolutely ELATED that my account is scheduled to be deleted. Thank you, bye #Discord !
For reference: theverge.com/tech/875309/disco…
#DeleteDiscord #BigTech #privacy
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Starting in March, all Discord users will have a “teen” experience by default unless they complete age verification using a video selfie or ID.Stevie Bonifield (The Verge)
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Two people have been killed and another seven have sustained injuries in a Russian aerial bomb attack on the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast on 10 February.
pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/02…
Russia hits Sloviansk with aerial bomb, killing mother and child – photos
У Слов'янську російський авіаудар забрав життя матері й доньки, ще сім людей постраждали, серед них 7-річна дівчинка.Iryna Hrychyshkina (Ukrainska Pravda)
🇷🇺📵 #Russia’s media regulator Roskomnadzor has started limiting Telegram’s functionality, state-affiliated business news outlet RBC reported on Tuesday, citing sources in the tech industry and the Russian government.
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Russian media regulator limits Telegram functionality in continued crackdown on foreign apps
Russia’s media regulator Roskomnadzor has started limiting Telegram’s functionality, state-affiliated business news outlet RBC reported on Tuesday, citing sources in the tech industry and the Russian government.Novaya Gazeta Europe
🇫🇷 French President Emmanuel Macron has said he wants to include European partners in a resumption of dialogue with #Putin nearly four years after Moscow's invasion of #Ukraine
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What's he going to tell putin? 🤔 "Could you please stop the war?" 🤷
Macron says wants 'European approach' in dialogue with Putin
French President Emmanuel Macron has said he wants to include European partners in a resumption of dialogue with Russian leader Vladimir Putin nearly four years after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.RFI
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🇺🇦 #Ukraine's Olympic Committee has put in a request for their skeleton competitor Vladyslav Heraskevych to wear a "helmet of remembrance" at the Milano Cortina Winter Games in honour of those killed in the war with Russia, it said on Tuesday.
🇺🇦 The transition of #Ukraine's military to a corps command system has entered its "second stage," with more work to be done to improve each corps' effectiveness on the battlefield, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Feb. 10.
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'Second stage' of Ukrainian military's corps reform underway, Syrskyi says
"The increase in enemy losses is one of the results of the corps reform," read Syrskyi's quote in the post on the Ukrainian General Staff's Facebook page.Francis Farrell (The Kyiv Independent)
🇩🇪 The German government plans to order strike drones worth 536 million euros from German startups Helsing and Stark Defence, part of a rearmament push after Russia's attack on Ukraine.
🇪🇪 #Russia is using U.S.-backed peace talks to end the war in #Ukraine as a "tool" for manipulating the West and has no interest in a deal, the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service says in its newly published yearbook.
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Estonian intelligence: Russia merely feigns interest in Ukraine peace talks
Russia is using U.S.-backed peace talks to end the war in Ukraine as a "tool" for manipulating the West and has no interest in a deal, the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service says in its newly published yearbook.ERR News (Eesti Rahvusringhääling | ERR)
🇪🇪 #Russia is using "drastic measures" to find new soldiers and targeting groups who would not normally be allowed to handle weapons. Lawlessness is widespread in the army and there are reports of illegal weapons trafficking, the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service says.
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Estonian intelligence: Russia taking 'drastic measures' to recruit new soldiers
Russia is using "drastic measures" to find new soldiers and targeting groups who would not normally be allowed to handle weapons.ERR News (Eesti Rahvusringhääling | ERR)
📃 An athlete's advocacy body has accused the International Olympic Committee of "enabling" and "kowtowing" to #Russia by allowing 20 Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at the Winter Olympic Games.
globalathlete.org/our-word/ope…
Open Letter to the IOC and International Federations: The International Olympic Committee and International Federations Continue to Kowtow to Russia
The International Olympic Committee and International Federations Continue to Kowtow to RussiaGlobal Athlete
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1.461 dage efter - En status på krigen i Ukraine
1.461 dage... Det er antallet af dage siden den russiske full-scale invasion af Ukraine. Situationen i Ukraine ændre sig nærmest dag for dag, da den internationale magtbalance er i opbrud, og støtten til landet usikker. Kom og hør...Billetto
DK 10x21 - Rancore
Uno ci prova a restare positivo, ma poi sei costretto a constatare che gli LLM sono un cancro che sta corrodento ogni campo del sapere, e allora...
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