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� � � � � � Mexico Could Spoil New U.S.-China Fentanyl Plan - Foreign Policy    Latin America Brief: Mexico Could Spoil New U.S.-China Fentanyl Plan Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and to receive email correspondence from us. You may opt out at any time. Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Shakira Settles Spanish Tax Fraud Case In Last Minute Deal To Avoid Trial And Potential Jail Time - Forbes    Pop megastar Shakira settled a tax dispute with Spanish authorities on Monday, trading a potential prison sentence for fines in a last minute deal just hours before she was due to appear in court after previously vowing to fight allegations of tax dodging. The Colombian singer has reached a deal to pay a $7.5 million fine on the morning she was due to appear in a Barcelona court over allegations she dodged €14.5 million ($15.8 million) in income tax between 2012 and 2014. Spanish prosecutors were reportedly pushing for an eight year prison sentence and fine of €23.8 million ($26 million) should the singer be found guilty. Continued here � � � � � � Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year - WIRED    The encrypted messaging and calling app Signal has become a one-of-a-kind phenomenon in the tech world: It has grown from the preferred encrypted messenger for the paranoid privacy elite into a legitimately mainstream service with hundreds of millions of installs worldwide. And it has done this entirely as a nonprofit effort, with no venture capital or monetization model, all while holding its own against the best-funded Silicon Valley competitors in the world, like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Gmail, and iMessage. Today, Signal is revealing something about what it takes to pull that off—and it’s not cheap. For the first time, the Signal Foundation that runs the app has published a full breakdown of Signal’s operating costs: around $40 million this year, projected to hit $50 million by 2025. Signal’s president, Meredith Whittaker, says her decision to publish the detailed cost numbers in a blog post for the first time—going well beyond the IRS disclosures legally required of nonprofits—was more than just as a frank appeal for year-end donations. By revealing the price of operating a modern communications service, she says, she wanted to call attention to how competitors pay these same expenses: either by profiting directly from monetizing users’ data or, she argues, by locking users into networks that very often operate with that same corporate surveillance business model. Continued here � � � � � � Rishi Sunak: The time has come to cut tax - BBC News    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the government is now able to cut taxes, after the pace of price rises eased. Mr Sunak said his target of halving inflation had been met so taxes would be reduced in "a responsible way". He refused to comment on "speculation" about changes to individual taxes and said there would be more details in Wednesday's Autumn Statement. Continued here

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