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Former NSA consultant Edward Snowden received Russian citizenship nine years after fleeing the U.S. Apple removed the MetaTrader app from its App Store in the wake of a Forbes investigation showing how the foreign exchange trading platform was a vehicle for costly “pig butchering” scams. A radical U.K. trial to switch to a four-day workweek has some promising early results.

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  • Beginning Saturday, Canada will no longer require proof of Covid-19 vaccination or testing, opening the border to unvaccinated travelers for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Canada’s Public Health Agency pointed to the nation’s high vaccination rate, low rates of Covid-19-related hospitalizations and deaths, and increased availability of rapid tests and vaccine boosters as some of the primary factors behind the public health decision. It joins a list of 85 nations and territories now operating sans Covid-19 entry requirements.
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship to Edward Snowden on Monday, nearly a decade after the former security consultant fled the U.S. after leaking highly classified information about the National Security Agency. The Department of Justice charged Snowden in 2013 with…

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