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🇷🇺 The daughter of “Putin’s brain” was killed in a Moscow car bombing. On Saturday night, 29-year-old Russian TV commentator Darya Dugina was killed by an explosive planted in the SUV she was driving. No one has claimed responsibility (Ukraine explicitly denied it but expects an escalation in fighting anyways), leading many to speculate the target of the attack was her father, Alexander Dugin, a philosopher and writer who some refer to as “Putin’s brain.”

🇸🇬 Singapore is decriminalizing gay sex. The country will decriminalize sex between men, but has no plans to change the legal definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. Under the current law, which hasn’t been actively enforced in decades and holds no mention of women or other genders, offenders could be jailed for up to two years.

🇲🇽 Mexico’s previous gov’t was complicit in the disappearance of 43 students in 2014. Per the final report from a gov’t truth commission released on Thursday, local law enforcement officials worked in conjunction with a large group of cartel gunmen and lookouts to disappear the students. On Friday, the previous administration’s attorney general was arrested for helping to orchestrate a cover-up. Arrest warrants have also been issued for 20 army soldiers and officers, five local officials, 33 local police officers, 11 state police, and 14 gang members. The motive for the abduction remains a subject of debate, and there’s been no evidence any of the students are still alive.

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