- China’s e-commerce giant JD.com is reportedly laying off at least 400 workers, adding to massive layoffs seen at other major Chinese tech firms like Alibaba and Tencent
- Filmmaker who documented Russia’s propaganda says Trump ‘fits neatly’ into Moscow’s narrative for being the only US leader who ‘wasn’t trying to destroy the Russian way of life’
- 2 private islands in the Caribbean owned by late financier Jeffrey Epstein are on the market for $125 million: WSJ
- Sanctioned oligarch Alisher Usmanov, the 5th-richest person in Russia, previously transferred his assets to trusts and doesn’t own them anymore: report
- Hillsong megachurch founder Brian Houston has resigned after an internal probe found that he behaved inappropriately with 2 women
This series of layoffs comes as China’s tech giants grapple with Beijing’s crackdown on the sector, and face slower economic growth.
Maxim Pozdorovkin says Americans do not “fully understand” the “one-sided information war” that the Kremlin has waged for a decade.
The two neighboring private islands, Little St. James and Great St. James, were part of Epstein’s sprawling real-estate portfolio.
Alisher Usmanov’s spokesman told Reuters his properties were transferred to irrevocable trusts in 2006 for estate-planning purposes.
Hillsong, which has in the past been attended by various Hollywood celebrities, found that Houston had broken its code of conduct.
