Russia-led free trade bloc seeks joint payment system with BRICS

Such a move could help cut dependence on Western financial infrastructure, Izvestia reports The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) is interested in setting up a common payment system with BRICS nations, the newspaper Izvestia reported on Monday. The Russia-led free trade bloc aims to cut reliance on the Western monetary system.

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EU drug ‘super cartel’ taken down

The organized crime syndicate controlled around one third of the cocaine trade in the bloc’s countries, according to Europol A sprawling cocaine “super cartel” has been taken down in the EU in a series of coordinated law enforcement raids, Europol announced on Monday. The raids, dubbed ‘Operation Desert Light’, were carried out in Spain, France,…

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Meta fined for data leak

Since last year, the company has been ordered to pay nearly $1 billion by Ireland’s privacy regulator Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta $275 million on Monday over a data leak that compromised the personal information of more than 500 million Facebook users. Tasked with enforcing EU privacy law, the Irish watchdog has hit…

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