Issue 64

Meta Platforms Inc.has fired or disciplined more than two dozen employees and contractors over the last year whom it accused of improperly taking over user accounts, in some cases allegedly for bribes, according to people familiar with the matter and documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

A Russian woman whose family had links to the Kremlin was made a director of the Security Institute, which has close ties to Westminster. Anastasia Spiridonova, 23, who speaks six languages and is described by several colleagues as 'exceptionally charming', is connected to the Putin regime through members of her family.

An Atlanta police officer who was assigned to former Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms's Executive Protection Unit has been indicted and suspended without pay for shooting an alleged carjacking suspect at a gas station in January 2019. Officer Oliver Simmonds was indicted Friday on charges of felony murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and two counts of violation of oath of public office.

The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal to dismiss lawsuits against two of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's security staff who allegedly assaulted protesters outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington DC in 2017. Turkey applied to lower courts requesting the cases be dismissed, citing immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

Eric Jean Baptiste, lottery business magnate, and a bodyguard were killed in Laboule 12, a leafy hillside area in Port-au-Prince, after attackers opened fire on their vehicle, officials said. Jean Baptiste, 52, headed the center-left Assembly of Progressive National Democrats Party and once sought Haiti's presidency.

Donald J. Trump on Wednesday reached a settlement in a civil case brought by protesters who said they were attacked by his bodyguards in 2015 In September 2015, in the early months of Mr. Trump's 2016 campaign for the presidency, the protesters staged a demonstration outside Trump Tower during which they said the candidate's bodyguards violently attacked them.