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Investigators work at the site where Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia's radiological, biological and chemical protections forces, was killed by an explosive device in Moscow on Tuesday. An exploding scooter taking out a senior general is certainly not a good look for Russia’s beefed-up internal security apparatus. Assassinations of key military figures on Russian soil, either directly or indirectly linked to Ukraine, have been a feature of this war. And less than a week ago, the deputy chief designer of Russia’s Mars Design Bureau was shot in a Moscow park. CNN’s Ukrainian security source confirmed Kyiv was behind his killing, saying he was responsible for upgrading some of the cruise missiles fired at Ukraine.

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The United States and United Kingdom this year placed sanctions on Russia for its use of the chemical weapon chloropicrin against troops in Ukraine, months before Igor Kirillov was killed in Moscow on Tuesday. “Russia has used riot control agents as a method of warfare in Ukraine, also in violation of the CWC. The use of such chemicals is not an isolated incident, and is probably driven by Russian forces’ desire to dislodge Ukrainian forces from fortified positions and achieve tactical gains on the battlefield,” the State Department said. In October, the UK sanctioned Kirillov himself, saying he was “responsible for helping deploy” chemical weapons on the battlefields of Ukraine. “Russian forces have openly admitted to using hazardous chemical weapons on the battlefield, with widespread use of riot control agents and multiple reports of the use of the toxic choking agent chloropicrin – first deployed on the battlefields of WW1,” the UK’s Foreign Office said.

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☆ Ex-FBI informant pleads guilty to making false bribery allegations about the Bidens
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Zoë Richards | Zoë Richards Is A Politics Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A former FBI informant pleaded guilty Monday to providing false information to federal authorities about Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden months before the 2020 presidential election. Many House Republicans had touted a confidential human source document tied to Smirnov's allegations as key to their impeachment inquiry into Biden, who denied any wrongdoing. He also pleaded guilty to tax evasion in charges tied to a separate indictment unsealed last month, admitting he received more than $2 million in unreported income for the tax years 2020-22. The case against him was brought by special counsel David Weiss, who previously investigated Hunter Biden on gun and tax charges. Hunter Biden was convicted on federal gun charges in June and pleaded guilty to tax charges in September.

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The Storm Corps – the 11th Army Corps of the North Korean military – are “better trained, (have) better physique and (are) better motivated than your average North Korean soldier,” Chun said. KCNA/Reuters/File‘Fair game’Mental strength, however, may not be enough to overcome the worst challenges the North Korean soldiers could face. But some North Korean military units are well supplied, and “have regular food and logistical supply,” said 38 North’s Madden. “These North Korean units, their main mission is to disrupt,” said Chun, the former South Korean army officer. South Korean intelligence suggests North Korean soldiers in Russia could be receiving salaries of $2,000 a month.

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☆ Justin Trudeau is facing a political crisis made worse by Donald Trump. Can he survive as Canada’s leader?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Lex Harvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau soared to victory in 2015 on the promise of change and “sunny ways” for the country. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland arrive for a meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv, Ukraine on June 10, 2023. On Monday, Finance Minister Freeland quit her post hours before she was due to deliver an annual fiscal update. Trudeau has so far been adamant that he will stay on as prime minister and has yet to directly acknowledge Freeland’s exit. “The Great State of Canada is stunned as the Finance Minister resigns, or was fired, from her position by Governor Justin Trudeau,” Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social.

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☆ Europe is taking on Elon Musk with its own Starlink rival
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The European Union has finalized plans to build a satellite network to rival Elon Musk's Starlink. Elon Musk's Starlink could have a new rival after the European Union confirmed it will join the race to provide high-speed internet to remote locations. AdvertisementThe EU said Monday it had finalized plans to build a €10.6 billion ($11.1 billion) satellite network that will take on SpaceX's Starlink. In September 2023, Musk said he had denied a request to activate Starlink in Crimea, thwarting an attack on Russia's Black Sea fleet. The EU is not the only one building their own Starlink rival.

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☆ The head of Russia's chemical weapons was killed when a scooter bomb exploded in Moscow
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Aditi Bharade | Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia's head of chemical weapons was killed on Tuesday when a bomb in a scooter in Moscow went off. A high-ranking Russian general responsible for Russia's chemical weapons was killed on Tuesday by a bomb placed in a scooter. AdvertisementLieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed by a bomb planted in a scooter parked on a street in Moscow, the country's investigative committee said in a statement on Telegram on Tuesday. "Kirillov was a war criminal and an absolutely legitimate target," the source said, accusing Kirillov of giving orders to use banned chemical weapons against Ukrainian forces. He was sanctioned by the UK in October for the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, including the choking agent chloropicrin.

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☆ Trump relishes wielding power without responsibility
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“In this term, everybody wants to be my friend,” the president-elect said at his Mar-a-Lago resort Monday, relishing the outpouring of deference from foreign leaders, CEOs and Republican powerbrokers as he readies his second term. Since winning last month’s election, Trump has been far more visible than Joe Biden, and it would be easy to mistake him for the sitting president. Trump never looked quite as at ease or cheerful when he was saddled with the cares of the presidency. Trump’s unique chanceTrump is experiencing a chance that only one president in history — Grover Cleveland — has known: to start his second term from scratch. It seems unlikely, as the president-elect speculated in his freewheeling news conference in Florida, that “my personality changed or something.”Such turmoil is unlikely to erode the rock-solid loyalty of Trump’s political base.

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☆ Igor Kirillov: Bomb kills chief of Russian nuclear protection forces in Moscow
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Nectar Gan | Maria Kostenko | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A Russian general who was wanted by Ukraine for using chemical munitions was killed by a remotely detonated bomb in Moscow on Tuesday, Russian authorities said. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who oversaw Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was killed by an explosive device planted in an electric scooter outside an apartment building some 7 km (4 miles) southeast of the Kremlin, according to Russia’s investigative committee. The power of the explosive device, which was detonated remotely, amounted to some 300 grams of TNT, Russian state news agency TASS reported. Kirillov’s death came a day after Ukrainian prosecutors charged the general in absentia with the use of banned chemical weapons in the war on Ukraine. Kirillov had also been sanctioned by Britain for the “abhorrent use of inhumane chemical weapons” on the battlefield in Ukraine.

Persons: Igor Kirillov, ”, Kirillov Organizations: CNN, TASS, Security Service, Britain Locations: Ukraine, Moscow

☆ Ukraine kills top Russian general in Moscow it accuses of chemical weapons crimes
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian Defense Ministry's radiological, biological and chemical protection unit, speaks at a briefing over an alleged chemical attack on the Syrian city of Douma, at the Patriot park in the Moscow region on June 22, 2018. A top Russian general accused by Ukraine of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops was assassinated in Moscow by Ukraine's SBU intelligence service on Tuesday morning in the most high-profile killing of its kind. An SBU source confirmed to Reuters that the Ukrainian intelligence agency had been behind the hit. "The liquidation of the chief of the radiation and chemical protection troops of the Russian Federation is the work of the SBU," the source said. Moscow holds Ukraine responsible for a string of high-profile assassinations on its soil designed to weaken morale and punish those Kyiv regards guilty of war crimes.

Persons: Igor Kirillov, Ukraine's, Kirillov, Dmitry Medvedev Organizations: Russian Defense, Patriot, Ukrainian, Russia's, Chemical Protection Troops, Reuters, Russian Federation Locations: Syrian, Douma, Moscow, Russian, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Kirillov, Russia

CNN —Ukraine said on Monday that North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russian troops suffered heavy losses during fighting at the weekend in the Russian region of Kursk. North Korean units that arrived in Kursk last month were involved in assaults at the weekend near three villages, according to Ukraine’s defense intelligence service. Since the beginning of December, North Korean troops appear to have been playing a more prominent role on the front lines in Kursk, especially as infantry. Ukraine estimates that about 12,000 North Korean soldiers are in the region trying to assist Russian units in recovering parts of Kursk taken in a Ukrainian offensive in August. Butusov said that North Korean infantry was backed by “massive fire support” from Russian units, as well as electronic warfare against Ukrainian drones.

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☆ Germany is heading for federal elections – here’s what you need to know
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Sebastian Shukla | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

There will be seven major parties for which Germans will vote. Since 2021, Scholz’s SPD had governed in an uneasy coalition with the liberal Free Democrats Party (FDP) and the Green Party. The CDU/CSU this time around will be led by Friedrich Merz, and the SPD by the incumbent but deeply unpopular chancellor, Scholz. The far-right Alternative for Deutschland party (AfD) has seen strong performances in regional elections give it a national boost. Either way, the federal election looks likely to leave the SPD and Scholz deeply humbled, and entering into a period of self-reflection.

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☆ ‘They said we were American spies’: Priests describe Russia’s crackdown on Evangelicals in occupied Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

Kyiv, Ukraine CNN —Pastor Dmytro Bodyu said the Russians kept telling him they knew he was an American spy, specifically, a CIA agent paid by the US government to spread anti-Russian propaganda in occupied Ukraine. Since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has jailed dozens of Ukrainian faith leaders in occupied areas, according to Ukrainian prosecutors. In the territories occupied after February 2022, Russian tactics became bloodier and more violent,” he said. Ukraine created its own independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2018, splitting from the Moscow-affiliated Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). ‘American spies’Moscow has been cracking down on all non-Russian churches in occupied Ukraine, but Protestant and Evangelical groups have often been among the first to be banned.

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☆ Elon Musk, SpaceX's CEO, isn't privy to all of the company's classified work with the US government: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk is the founder-CEO of rocket company SpaceX. But Musk isn't privy to all of SpaceX's classified work with the US government, per the WSJ. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's security clearance doesn't grant him complete access to the company's classified work with the US government. AdvertisementIn October, the Journal reported that Musk has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 27, 2024Musk founded SpaceX in 2002.

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☆ North Korean soldiers attacked Russian forces by mistake due to a language barrier, Ukraine says
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine said that North Korean troops had accidentally killed 8 Russian soldiers in Kursk. Eight Russian soldiers were killed by North Korean forces in a recent "friendly fire" incident in Kursk, according to Ukrainian intelligence. AdvertisementNorth Korean soldiers opened fire on Russian military vehicles, Defense Intelligence of Ukraine said on Saturday, attributing it to a language barrier between the two forces. He said a cumulative 100,000 North Korean soldiers could serve in Russia within a year. AdvertisementExperts on the relationship between the two states have previously said that the language difference between North Korean and Russian soldiers would be a key logistical issue.

Persons: Dmytro Ponomarenko, Joseph S, Bermudez Jr, —, Putin, Ramzan Kadyrov Organizations: North, Defense Intelligence, North Korean, Ukraine, Center for International, Strategic Studies, Audio, Reuters Locations: Ukraine, Kursk, Ukrainian, North Korean, North Korea, Russia, South Korea, America, Russian

☆ Badly damaged Russian tankers carrying thousands of tons of fuel spill oil near Black Sea
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Two Russian tankers carrying thousands of tons of fuel were badly damaged in stormy weather near the Black Sea over the weekend, leading to an oil spill, according to Russian state media. The tankers were carrying more than 9,000 tons of oil, emergency services reported, according to TASS. Some of this oil spilled into the Kerch Strait, which specialists were preparing to clean up, it said. The region suffered a similar oil spill in November 2007, when five ships sank in storms in the Black Sea and the Azov Sea. In that incident, strong winds and high surf caused the Volgoneft 139 to split in two, spilling up 560,000 gallons, or approximately 1,000 tons, of fuel oil.

Persons: Paul Johnston Organizations: CNN, Russian Telegram, TASS, Greenpeace, Greenpeace Research Laboratories Locations: Kerch, Russia, Crimea, Russian, Greenpeace Ukraine, Azov

Although Democrats were wrecked up and down the ballot in Pennsylvania, Casey doesn’t think the party needs to rip up its playbook. In fact, he thinks the factor that will help them the most is not having to face Trump on the ballot again. But obviously, for probably a variety of reasons, President Trump had his strongest performance ever in Pennsylvania of the three races and got about 50%. I don’t think that’s accurate, but that’s the perception that people had, and that if he was able to achieve that once, he could do it again. And at the time, President Trump was very clear about that.

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☆ FIFA faces backlash over 'unacceptable' map of Ukraine that appeared to omit Crimea
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-15 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

FIFA, soccer's world governing body, is facing backlash over a map it showed of Ukraine. The map appeared to show Ukraine without Crimea as part of it. FIFA, soccer's world governing body, is facing backlash after showing a map that appeared to omit Crimea from Ukrainian territory. He said they had also "fixed" the map for FIFA and shared another version of it with Crimea highlighted. The 2026 World Cup is set to take place across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Persons: Heorhii, Mattias Grafström, Theodore Theodoridis, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, —, Putin Organizations: FIFA, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry, Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Business, Ukrainian Association of Football, UEFA, Kremlin, Croatia Nations League Locations: Ukraine, Crimea, Belarus, yesterday's, Russian, Europe, Russia, Moscow, United States, Canada, Mexico, Iceland, Azerbaijan, France, Saudi Arabia

☆ Two Russian cargo ships are in distress near Crimea following bad weather
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-15 | by ( Billy Stockwell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Two Russian cargo ships carrying oil products are in distress following bad weather in the Kerch Strait between mainland Russia and annexed Crimea, the country’s ministry of emergency situations said Sunday. The ship’s 13-strong crew has been evacuated, the ministry added. A second cargo ship, “Volgoneft 239,” went adrift after sustaining damage in the same region, the ministry said. The bow of a ship, which can be seen in the background of the video, has broken off and appears just above the water line. Ukraine has regularly targeted Russian infrastructure in or near Crimea, a territory it is seeking to recapture after it was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, but there is no suggestion that the incidents are conflict-related.

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☆ Suspected sabotage of European undersea cables shows just how vulnerable these critical lines are to attack
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-15 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Undersea cables between Finland-Germany and Lithuania-Sweden were cut, potentially sabotaged. NATO is enhancing surveillance and coordination to protect critical underwater infrastructure. The damage to the cables, which European officials said appeared deliberate, highlights just how vulnerable these critical undersea lines are. AdvertisementIn May this year, NATO held its first Critical Undersea Infrastructure Network meeting and launched its Maritime Centre for the Security of Critical Undersea Infrastructure to better coordinate the capabilities of its members and increase collaboration between them. Yantar, one of GUGI's special-purpose spy vessels, which nominally acts as a survey vessel, has often been spotted near underwater cables.

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☆ Ukraine replaces commander following Russian advances on key city of Pokrovsk
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( Kostyantyn Hak | Sophie Tanno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The commander of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk group of forces has been replaced following Russian advances in the region, a military official said Saturday. The move comes after Lutsenko faced heavy criticism for failing to stop recent Russian advances on the key city of Pokrovsk. Russian forces have been spotted just three kilometers (1.9 miles) from the city, according to Ukrainian mapping service DeepState. Its fall to Russian forces would mark the largest setback for Ukraine in months and compound Ukraine’s struggles to get off the backfoot while Russian troops pile severe pressure on the eastern front lines. He added that Ukraine had information that North Korean soldiers may be being used along other parts of the front line.

Persons: Oleksandr Tarnavskiy, Oleksandr Lutsenko, Lutsenko, Pokrovsk, Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, –, ” Zelensky, “ Organizations: CNN Locations: Donetsk, Pokrovsk, Russia, Ukraine’s Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Moscow, Russian, Ukraine, United States, Ukrainian, Russia’s Kursk, Kursk, “, North Korea

☆ When campaign politics and Cabinet confirmation fights collide: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. Plus, "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker breaks down a few of the below-the-radar answers Donald Trump gave during their interview. “Donald Trump is king of the Republican Party; he conquered it, and he earned it,” Deace told NBC News. “A lot of this is driven by gaslighting and attention-seeking — what can we say today to get more clicks? Read more →President JoeBiden is on track to have appointed more federal judges of color than any of his predecessors.

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It is also not clear if Trump's team has communicated with Putin’s government about Ukraine, and if so, what has been conveyed by either side. The transition team declined to comment on whether a Putin ally, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, carried any message from Russia to Trump in his recent visit to Mar-a-Lago. Asked if Walz and others on Trump's transition team are working with the Biden administration on a ceasefire plan, transition spokesperson Brian Hughes said: “Congressman Waltz and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan are in contact on many issues. “The atmosphere thus far in terms of the engagement between the Ukrainians and the incoming Trump team, including Zelenskyy and Trump himself, has been positive,” one of the sources said. The Trump transition team declined to comment on how Trump views the idea of barring Ukraine from joining NATO indefinitely or for some designated period of time.

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☆ A Russian missile and drone developer was assassinated in a Ukrainian hit: reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Russian drone and missile designer was assassinated near Moscow, reports say. A senior Russian official who worked at a company that designs drones and missiles was killed in a Ukrainian operation near Moscow, according to reports. AdvertisementA source in Ukraine's security services told Ukrainian outlet Pravda that Mikhail Shatsky was assassinated in a special operation by Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, the country's military intelligence service. AdvertisementA source told Kyiv Independent that Shatsky was seen as the main proponent of incorporating AI into Russian drones, aircraft, and spacecraft. Ukrainian military intelligence didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from BI.

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