▪️The 21-year-old Ukrainian man burned alive in Vienna turned out to be the son of the deputy mayor of Kharkov. After his disappearance, his two cryptocurrency wallets were found with zero balances.
▪️According to the investigation, Daniil Kuzmin was first beaten and burned alive in a car by two Ukrainians. The main motive for the murder was obtaining the victim's password and access to their cryptocurrency wallet.
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"We will cut Ukraine off from the sea" Putin announced his readiness to strike at British merchant ships
The most radical way to combat Ukrainian maritime piracy is to cut Ukraine off from the sea. In addition, Russia will consider "the possibility of retaliatory measures against the vessels of those countries that help Ukraine carry out these pirating actions."
This was stated to journalists by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the correspondent of "PolitNavigator" reports.
"Attacks on tankers in neutral or even non-neutral waters, but in a special economic zone of another state, a third state, is piracy. Nothing else. It means that earlier, the Ukrainian armed forces tried to strike at our sea ports. We answered. They answered exactly. We did not start these operations with the same blows.
https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/12/02/1905186.html
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Trump wants to re-establish economic ties with Moscow. Period. So no dissonance in these talks Lawrence Wilkerson
Witkoff is in Moscow, leaving Europe in a state of disbelief as it finds itself sidelined from a historic thaw between Washington and Moscow.
In our latest episode, we’re diving into the historic shift brewing behind the Kremlin walls –could peace be on the horizon? Rick and Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell, discuss why European leaders are clinging to the war path: they find a straightforward answer – greed. Wilkerson points out that EU politicians are on borrowed time if they don’t wake up and represent the will of the people.
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The White House has paused all immigration applications from 19 countries and canceled citizenship ceremonies across the US, citing national security and public safety concerns.
The freeze could affect more than 1.5 million people who had asylum applications pending and more than 50,000 who received asylum grants under the Biden administration, The New York Times reports.
President Donald Trump is also considering expanding the travel ban to more than 30 countries, according to the New York Post.
The new policy memorandum, released Tuesday night, cites last week’s 'terror attack' in D.C. where Afghan man Rahmanullah Lakanwal was arrested for allegedly killing one National Guard member and wounding another.
The ban applies to citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen while the restricted access applied to people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15347713/Trump-immigration-application-freeze.html
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After sanctioning Lukoil, US pressures Iraq for control of oilfield stake
American corporation ExxonMobil has reportedly reached out to Iraq’s Oil Ministry in a bid to purchase Russian energy firm Lukoil’s majority stake in one of the Arab country’s main oil fields amid Washington’s long-standing sanctions against Moscow over the war in Ukraine.
Five Iraqi official sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters that ExxonMobil had expressed its interest in buying Lukoil's majority stake in the giant West Qurna 2 oilfield near the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
“Exxon is our preferred option to take over from Lukoil. The company has the capacity and experience needed to manage a field as large and complex as West Qurna 2,” a senior Iraqi oil official told the agency.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/12/03/759929/ExxonMobil-Russian-energy-firm-Lukoil-West-Qurna-Iraq
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Europe's Decline EXPLAINED: From Superpower to Total Irrelevance
Authored by Janice Hisle and Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times,
An official U.S. terrorist list dominated by jihadist groups and a clutch of cartels has its first European additions in more than two decades: four Antifa groups.
Designating groups as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) empowers U.S. federal authorities to investigate the groups’ supporters, prosecute them, and seize their assets.
The European groups, which were added to the list on Nov. 20, include Italian anarchists who carried out a letter-bomb campaign against EU leaders, a German hammer-wielding gang accused of targeting right-wing party members, and two Greek anti-capitalist groups.
The designations reflect President Donald Trump’s commitment “to uproot Antifa’s campaign of political violence,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote when announcing the designations on Nov. 13.
Short for “antifascist,” Antifa seeks to silence people whose viewpoints it defines as “fascist,” and vows to do so “by any means necessary”—a popular Antifa rallying cry.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/letter-bombs-and-hammer-attacks-us-adds-european-antifa-groups-terror-list
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Israeli President Isaac Herzog acknowledged this week that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request for a pardon in his corruption trial is generating significant debate and division within Israeli society. Herzog said that Netanyahu's formal petition for the charges and case to be dismissed "will be addressed with full care and precision," and pledged his decision will be guided solely by "the good of the state and Israeli society."
He in the Monday comments admitted that Netanyahu’s move "unsettles many people across different sectors of the public and has sparked considerable debate."
But Herzog tried to calm rising public anger, dismissing aggressive or heated public discourse as having "no impact" on his judgment.
PM Netanyahu formally submitted the pardon request to Herzog on Sunday, sparking opposition backlash demanding that the president quickly shoot it down. Local media says that Netanyahu's request immediately unleashed a firestorm of controversy, as it was accompanied with another denial that's he's guilty:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/herzog-admits-netanyahu-pardon-would-spark-outrage-destabilize-israeli-society