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On today's episode, the UAE and Saudi Arabia mediate the release of American basketball star Brittney Griner from Russia, while Spain have fired national football team coach Luis Enrique after their shock loss to Morocco in the World Cup last 16.
Lebanon fails for the ninth time to elect a successor to former president Michel Aoun and Egypt's annual inflation hit a five-year high of 18.7 per cent in November.
In numbers: PKK’s money network in Europe
Germany: PKK collectors typically bring in $18 million in cash a year – amount has trebled since 2010
Revolutionary tax: Investigators say about $2 million a year raised from ‘tax collection’ around Marseille
Extortion: Gunman convicted in 2023 of demanding $10,000 from Kurdish businessman in Stockholm
Drug trade: PKK income claimed by Turkish anti-drugs force in 2024 to be as high as $500 million a year
Denmark: PKK one of two terrorist groups along with Iranian separatists ASMLA to raise “two-digit million amounts”
Contributions: Hundreds of euros expected from typical Kurdish families and thousands from business owners
TV channel: Kurdish Roj TV accounts frozen and went bankrupt after Denmark fined it more than $1 million over PKK links in 2013
