A substantial amount is known about the relationship between financier Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. They met in the 1980s, when Epstein bought a home in Palm Beach two miles from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Throughout the 1990s, Trump and Epstein were regularly seen together at parties and social events. In 1992, Trump hosted a party at Mar-a-Lago with a large number of young women; the only invited male guest was Epstein.

Tanker Mersin sinking off the coast of Senegal, Nov. 27. Photo: Istanbul Haber Ajansı Four explosions occurred near the oil tanker Mersin (IMO: 9428683) off the coast of Senegal. The vessel sustained damage, resulting in water entering the engine room. The explosions were reported by Russian pro-government outlet RIA Novosti citing Beşiktaş Shipping, the Turkish owner of the vessel.

Police and special forces detained the new leader of the Azerbaijani diaspora in the Urals, Vidadi Mustafayev, in Yekaterinburg. Local publications E1 , 66.ru and the Telegram channel Baza , close to the security forces, write about this. The previous leader of the diaspora is now in jail. According to media reports, Mustafayev was detained at the entrance to the fitness club. Previously, he is suspected of fraud in the sale of land.

The Ministry of Digital Development has prepared a draft order according to which, from September 1, 2026, telecom operators will not be able to purchase foreign SIM cards, Kommersant reports with reference to the document. The new requirements assume that cards must be produced in Russia, run on a domestic operating system from the Ministry of Digital Development registry, and use Russian cryptography. Cryptographic keys must also be issued within the country.

US President Donald Trump has tightened his rhetoric on the issue of migration, saying that the suspension of all asylum applications has no time frame and could “last a long time,” USA Today reports . According to him, “we don’t want these people, we already have enough problems.” When reporters asked to clarify who exactly he was referring to, Trump replied that he was talking about people from countries that are not friendly to the United States and are themselves in a state of chaos.

Thanks to the new feature of the social network Twitter (X), which allows you to see where an account is coming from and whether a VPN is used, numerous evidence has appeared in social networks and media that the authors of highly politicized posts posing as residents of the USA, Israel, etc., actually live in third world countries.

In South Korea, four people are suspected of hacking a total of more than 120 thousand IP cameras installed in apartments, houses and offices across the country. According to The Korea Herald, the attackers recorded hundreds of videos with sex scenes, which they then sold to foreign websites. According to the police, one of the hackers earned 35 million won ($23.8 thousand) from this, the second - 18 million won ($12.3 thousand).

Sberbank began providing its clients with the opportunity to pay for purchases in China through QR codes of the Alipay platform. Kommersant's sources in the financial market reported this, and the information was confirmed by bank support service operators. The publication's correspondent successfully tested the new function by making two payments using the Alipay QR code.

Russia is preparing for the first placement of sovereign bonds denominated in Chinese yuan, Bloomberg writes . The country's Ministry of Finance will begin accepting applications for two-tranche bonds on December 2, which will be traded on the domestic market. The target coupon rate for a 3.2-year tranche will be 6.25–6.5%, and for a 7.5-year tranche - no more than 7.5%.

The total revenue of the world's 100 largest arms manufacturers in 2024 grew by 5.9% and reached a record level of $679 billion, according to a report published on December 1 by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Almost half of this amount, $334 billion, comes from 39 American companies. “Global arms revenues reached the highest level ever recorded by SIPRI last year as manufacturers took advantage of strong demand,” one of the researchers noted.

The CEO of the Swiss Gunvor Group, Torbjörn Törnqvist, will sell his stake to the company's management and resign. This is stated in a press release on the oil trader’s website. At the end of October, the company announced its intention to buy foreign assets of Lukoil, which was subject to American sanctions, but later received a refusal from the US Treasury.

The explosions that struck two tankers from Russia’s “shadow fleet” on Nov. 28 were the result of a special operation by the Security Service of Ukraine, according reports from multiple Ukrainian news outlets, including RBC Ukraine . The “shadow fleet” tankers in question are the Kairos (IMO 9236004) and the Virat (IMO 9832559). Both vessels sail without a flag, meaning they are not formally registered.

Two supertankers, Cobalt Nova and Olympic Lion, left Guyana heading to India at the end of November. Each tanker is capable of transporting about 2 million barrels of oil. According to Bloomberg, India purchased a large shipment of oil from the South American country as an alternative to sanctioned Russian energy. The ships are scheduled to arrive in India in January 2026.

Scientists from the University of Oxford have discovered unexpected similarities between how humans and artificial neural networks learn. It turned out that when mastering tasks sequentially, both of them face the same problem: new knowledge replaces old knowledge. This phenomenon has long been known in machine learning as “catastrophic forgetting,” but it now turns out that humans are susceptible to it to the same extent. The work was published in the journal Nature Human Behavior.

Police in South Africa over the weekend detained at least five people suspected of collaborating with Russia and recruiting local residents into the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces. According to Bloomberg and the local publication Times Live , one of the detainees is a radio presenter at the state station SAfm and co-chair of the BRICS Journalists Association. All five suspects are accused of mercenary activity, which is a criminal offense in the country.