Trump’s World Liberty Financial venture sues crypto entrepreneur for defamation

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Suit alleges that Hong Kong-based Justin Sun engaged in a campaign to ‘torch’ the company’s reputation

World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture co-founded by Donald Trump and his sons, said on Monday it had filed a defamation lawsuit in Florida state court against the Hong Kong-based crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, as a dispute escalates between the project and one of its most prominent backers.

World Liberty posted a copy of its lawsuit on X in which it accused Sun of launching a “public smear campaign”. It alleged that Sun had improperly transferred some of his WLFI tokens that come with voting and governance rights to crypto exchange Binance and, separately, that he had placed bets that WLFI would decline in market value, known as short selling. That was part of a coordinated effort to push the token’s market price down as public trading began in September, the lawsuit alleged.

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‘Extensive brutality’: Rebel attacks reap hell on Congolese civilians – Al Jazeera

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  1. ‘Extensive brutality’: Rebel attacks reap hell on Congolese civilians  Al Jazeera
  2. Islamic State massacres Christians in front of their families  The Telegraph
  3. DRC: Rampant ADF abuses against civilians ‘war crimes which the world must not continue to ignore’ – new report  Amnesty International
  4. IS-Linked ADF Kills 60 in Eastern DRC as UN Mission Cuts Widen Security Gap  SOFX
  5. Amnesty accuses ADF fighters of war crimes in eastern DR Congo  africanews.com
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California seeks millions in penalties from State Farm over alleged claims violations after LA wildfires

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State’s top insurance regulator says insurance company violated law while handling claims from 2025 wildfires

California is seeking millions of dollars in penalties from State Farm after an investigation found the insurance company was slow to investigate and underpaid claims from the 2025 Los Angeles-area wildfires, regulators announced on Monday.

State Farm violated the law hundreds of times in a sampling of 220 cases, the state’s insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, said. The maximum penalty amount allowed by law would be about $4m if State Farm is found to be “willful” in violating state law. Regulators may also temporarily suspend the company’s license, effectively prohibiting the state’s largest home insurer from writing new policies for a year in California.

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1 missing U.S. soldier jumped into water to try to save another, search continues in Morocco, officials say – CBS News

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  1. 1 missing U.S. soldier jumped into water to try to save another, search continues in Morocco, officials say  CBS News
  2. 2 U.S. Service Members Are Missing After Military Exercise in Morocco  The New York Times
  3. New Details Emerge After U.S. Soldiers Fall Off Cliff  The Daily Beast
  4. US military says two service members taking part in Morocco drills missing  Al Jazeera
  5. 2 U.S. service members missing after military exercises in Morocco  NPR
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Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’

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Exclusive: ‘Fish sludge’ in coastal waters now has nutrient levels equivalent to those in untreated effluent of country the size of Australia, report finds

Norwegian fish farms are filling fjords and other coastal waters with nutrient pollution equivalent to the raw sewage of tens of millions of people each year, a report has found.

Norway is the largest farmed salmon producer in the world, and nutrients in fish feed are excreted directly into coastal waters. Analysis from the Sunstone Institute found that Norwegian aquaculture released 75,000 tonnes of nitrogen, 13,000 tonnes of phosphorus and 360,000 tonnes of organic carbon in 2025.

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At Least 3 Dead After Suspected Rat-Borne Virus Outbreak On Cruise Ship – Forbes

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  1. At Least 3 Dead After Suspected Rat-Borne Virus Outbreak On Cruise Ship  Forbes
  2. 3 Dead in Hantavirus Outbreak Aboard Cruise Ship, W.H.O. Says  The New York Times
  3. What to know about hantavirus after 3 died in suspected cruise ship outbreak  The Washington Post
  4. Exclusive | Inside the deadly hantavirus-infected cruise ship, MV Hondius, where 3 passengers have died  New York Post
  5. Evacuations planned as suspected hantavirus outbreak traps 150 on ship off Cape Verde  Reuters
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Tricked Into Fighting for Russia – The New York Times

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  1. Tricked Into Fighting for Russia  The New York Times
  2. ‘The Death Zone’: How Russia Is Luring Africans to Ukraine  The New York Times
  3. Kenya: Russia's African Recruitment Web Is Expanding  Foreign Policy
  4. 'We ate snow mixed with sand to survive' - Survivor recounts ordeal in Russia-Ukraine war  GhanaWeb
  5. How Russia Dupes Kenyans into Fighting in Ukraine  DER SPIEGEL - The German View
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UAE reports missile and drone strikes incoming from Iran – Al Jazeera

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  1. UAE reports missile and drone strikes incoming from Iran  Al Jazeera
  2. Iran War Takes a Dangerous Turn as Fighting Erupts in Hormuz  WSJ
  3. Despite rift, MBS calls Emirati counterpart to condemn Iranian strikes on UAE  The Times of Israel
  4. Global oil prices top $114 and settle at 4-year high after Iranian attacks on U.A.E. revive worries of further supply disruptions  MarketWatch
  5. Iran ceasefire in peril as UAE says it's under attack  Axios
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