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🇩🇪 A German woman used Instagram to find and kill her doppelgänger in order to fake her own death, prosecutors say. When Munich authorities discovered the body of a 23-year-old woman earlier this month who had been stabbed to death, they initially thought it was a German-Iraqi woman recently reported missing by her parents. But after performing an autopsy, police arrested the missing 23-year-old woman – who looked “strikingly similar” to the victim – on suspicion of homicide, alongside a 23-year-old Kosovan man. Authorities say the woman allegedly faked her own death and went into hiding “because of a family dispute.”

🇷🇺 Moscow has violated a US-Russia treaty limiting the build-up of nuclear weapons, per US officials. The State Department said it found Russia to be in “noncompliance” with the nuclear treaty after Moscow refused to allow on-site inspections, and also rejected US officials’ requests to meet to discuss compliance concerns. It marks the first time Washington has accused Russia of breaking the 2011 New START arms treaty, which limits the number of nuclear warheads, bombers, and launchers each country can possess.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong’s strict ban on CBD takes effect today. The Hong Kong government’s decision to label CBD as a “dangerous drug” places it on the same level as hard drugs like heroin and cocaine. Residents were previously given three months starting on October 27 to dispose of their CBD products, with penalties of up to seven years in prison for possession – and up to a life sentence for importing, exporting, or producing the drug – starting today.