Tesla’s CEO has dismissed critics of the shareholder-backed plan as “corporate terrorists”
Tesla shareholders have approved an unprecedented compensation package for CEO Elon Musk, potentially worth up to $1 trillion over the next decade if ambitious performance targets are met.
Under the plan, Musk could receive approximately 423.7 million Tesla shares in 12 separate tranches, each contingent on achieving milestones such as the delivery of 20 million electric vehicles, the deployment of 1 million robotaxis, and reaching $400 billion in EBITDA and an $8.5 trillion market cap.
Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm warned in recent shareholder correspondence that the company risked losing Musk’s “time, talent, and vision” if the plan were to be rejected.
While more than 75% of votes reportedly backed the package, significant institutional opposition remains. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund – the largest pension-pool investor in Tesla – publicly rejected the deal, citing concerns over dilution, “key-person risk,” and board independence.
Musk dismissed critics of the pay package as corporate terrorist.
Supporters argue that the deal locks Musk into Tesla for at least eight to ten years, aligning his incentives with shareholders amid the company’s push into artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomous mobility. However, corporate governance advocates caution that such enormous compensation could set a troubling precedent.
Musk is currently the world’s richest person, with a net worth of $487.5 billion, according to Forbes. The package could raise his stake in the company to as much as 29%, up from about 15%, although failure to meet the targets could significantly reduce the payout.
US regulators are examining whether JPMorgan Chase has denied customers fair access to banking, as pressure grows over debanking decisions that were made against conservative figures, according to reporting from Financial Times and the company’s 10-Q filing.
In its quarterly filing, the bank noted it was “responding to requests from government authorities and other external parties regarding, among other things, the firm’s policies and processes and the provision of services to customers and potential customers”.
JPMorgan linked the scrutiny to an August executive order from Donald Trump directing regulators to review possible “politicised or unlawful debanking”. The bank said related inquiries include “reviews, investigations and legal proceedings,” without identifying the agencies involved.
Bank of America has similarly reported responding to government demands about “fair access to banking.” Industry lobbyists argue that regulatory rules around politically exposed persons and “reputation risk” have pushed banks to deny certain customers.
Recall, just yesterday, we noted that a top bank watchdog was making sure big banks have finally ditched debanking policies. You remember those, right? We sure do. It happened around the same time Google, Paypal and Amazon all banned us due to our (correct) take on the origins of Covid-19 and because they didn’t like our (correct) take on the BLM movement.
For those that missed it, a slew of banks under the Biden administration outright cancelled people’s accounts and didn’t allow them access to a bank account based on the industry they worked in, or many times their political views (surprise, none of them were Democrats).
Jonathan Gould, head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, or OCC, told a conference that supervisors are double-checking banks really did stop blacklisting sectors like firearms from banks, according to Reuters.
This oversight follows a June executive order from President Donald Trump directing banks to avoid denying services based on industry type or political considerations.
Reuters writes that supervisors are now ensuring that the largest banks are in compliance with the updated approach.
YouTube, owned by Google LLC, has deleted more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations, citing compliance with US sanctions imposed on Palestinian human rights groups cooperating with the International Criminal Court (ICC), according to an investigation by The Intercept published on 5 November.
The investigation revealed that the videos were removed after US President Donald Trump’s administration sanctioned three Palestinian organizations over their work with the ICC on war crimes cases against Israeli leaders.
The organizations sanctioned are Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.
The deletions, carried out in early October, erased years of archives detailing Israeli atrocities in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, including footage of home demolitions, civilian killings, and torture testimonies from Palestinians.
Among the deleted material were investigations into the murder of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and documentaries such as ‘The Beach’, which recounts the killing of children by an Israeli airstrike as they played by the sea.
YouTube confirmed the removals were made in compliance with “trade and export laws” after Trump sanctioned the groups.
Human rights advocates said the company’s decision effectively aided US efforts to suppress evidence of Israeli atrocities.
“It’s really hard to imagine any serious argument that sharing information from these Palestinian human rights organizations would somehow violate sanctions,” said Sarah Leah Whitson of Democracy for the Arab World Now.
The Center for Constitutional Rights condemned the decision as an attempt to erase war crimes evidence, while Al-Haq described the move as “an alarming setback for human rights and freedom of expression.”
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said YouTube’s action “protects perpetrators from accountability,” accusing Google of complicity in silencing victims of Israeli aggression.
Al Mezan stated that its channel was removed without warning. The three organizations warned that US-based platforms hosting similar content could soon face the same censorship, potentially erasing further documentation of Israeli war crimes.
The Intercept investigation highlighted YouTube’s bias, noting that pro-Israel material remains largely untouched while Palestinian narratives are disproportionately targeted.
It reported that the platform had shown a “ready willingness to comply with demands from both the Trump administration and Israel.”
The crackdown comes amid renewed US efforts to shield Israeli officials from prosecution after the ICC issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant over Gaza war crimes.
Washington has since reimposed sanctions on ICC judges and entities assisting the court’s investigations.
Separately, Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales intervened after editors locked the site’s “Gaza genocide” page from further changes on 28 October.
Wales called the entry “particularly egregious” and insisted it “needs immediate correction” to reflect a “neutral approach.”
His remarks drew backlash from editors who accused him of bowing to political pressure and undermining UN and academic findings confirming that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide.
Washington and Damascus are in discussions over the use of an airbase by American troops
The US is seeking to establish a military presence in the Syrian capital Damascus by the end of the year, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The US has maintained a foothold in Syria through a controversial base in the southeast; it is surrounded by an exclusion zone which Moscow has claimed has become a safe space for terrorists. Neither former Syrian President Bashar Assad, toppled late last year, nor the new government led by ex-jihadist leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has authorized an American presence in the country.
The looming agreement is linked to a non-aggression pact between Syria’s new authorities and Israel, according to the report. The agreement, mediated by the US administration, is expected to establish a demilitarized zone in the south of the country.
The airbase is expected to be used for “logistics, surveillance, refueling, and humanitarian operations,” while Syria will retain “full sovereignty” over the facility, Reuters noted, citing two Syrian military sources. Washington has reportedly been putting pressure on Damascus to push through the deal before the end of the year and al-Sharaa’s potential visit to the US.
The deal was reportedly discussed by US Central Command (CENTCOM) chief Admiral Brad Cooper during his trip to Damascus in September. Both sides at the time provided vague statements on the nature of the talks, with neither mentioning Israel.
“The meeting addressed prospects for cooperation in the political and military fields in the service of shared interests and consolidating the foundations of security and stability in Syria and the region,” Al-Sharaa’s office said after Cooper’s trip.
Al-Sharaa, who previously led the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) under his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, rose to power after the fall of Assad’s government late last year. The defeat of Syria’s president plunged the country into a new period of instability, marked by months of clashes between the new government’s forces and minority groups.
Islamist factions have repeatedly targeted minority communities, including Alawites, Christians, Kurds, and Druze. The attacks on the latter minority prompted Israel to invade the buffer zone near the occupied Golan Heights. West Jerusalem has claimed the move was necessary to block hostile actions along the frontier and protect the Druze community.
Job cuts in October hit highest level for the month in 22 years, Challenger says
Job cuts for October totaled 153,074, a 183% surge from September and 175% higher than the same month a year ago. It was the highest level for any October since 2003 and has been the worst year for layoffs since 2009.
Companies in the technology sector announced 33,281 cuts, nearly six times the level in September.
“Like in 2003, a disruptive technology is changing the landscape,” said Andy Challenger, workplace expert and chief revenue officer at outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella didn’t mince words in his appearance on the Bg2 Pod with investor Brad Gerstner and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.
The tech leader made a startling admission that the biggest problem facing AI expansion right now isn’t chips — it’s power.
In what was a rare moment of candor, Nadella confessed that Microsoft has some of the most cutting-edge GPUs sitting idle because there’s basically nowhere to plug them in.
“I don’t have warm shells to plug into,” he said, referring to unfinished data center facilities that don’t have power or cooling capacity. It’s a stunning admission from arguably the world’s most resource-rich companies, and a potential reality check for the entire AI boom.
With industries across the globe racing to build smarter machines, it’s hitting a very human limit; there might not be enough electricity to keep the dream running.
These rich mega Big Tech companies are now taking on DEBT to fund their lust for AI power, and they are ALREADY ASKING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO BAIL THEM OUT!!
It’s not every day one of the world’s most valuable companies asks the U.S. government for assistance, but these aren’t ordinary days. On Wednesday, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar suggested at a Wall Street Journal event that the federal government ought to guarantee the financing of AI chips.
Come again?
“We’re looking for an ecosystem of banks, private equity, maybe even governmental, the ways governments can come to bear,” she said. “The backstop, the guarantee that allows the financing to happen. That can really drop the cost of the financing but also increase the loan-to-value, so the amount of debt you can take on top of an equity portion.”
She added that AI should be viewed as a “national strategic asset” and that the U.S. needed to be thoughtful in its race against China to “grow our AI ecosystem as fast as possible.”
This is red meat for the doomers of the AI capex explosion who think OpenAI may have dug too deep of a hole when it comes to spending commitments and is already asking for a bailout.
Creole languages are pidgin languages people fabricate when forced to accommodate to foreign speakers once they develop a full grammar, written language and native speakers who speak it as a first language
English Creoles
Tok Pisin (from English word “business”) – developed in Papua New Guinea in the 19th century when indigenous speakers were forced to interact with Australian newcomers. It began as pidgin language of a few hundred words and ultimately blossomed into a full language. It contains element of Portuguese and a grammar similar to that of Polynesian languages. Used by numerous indigenous Papuan groups, indigenous Australians in northern Australia and Torres Strait islanders.
West African Pidgin – spoken in Ghana and Nigeria.
Hawaiian Pidgin
Jamaican Patois – a English Creole slaves speaking different African languages used to communicate with each another.
French Creoles
Haitian Creole
Mauritius Creole
Louisiana Creole
Spanish Creoles
Bernard – Creole of Canarian Spanish spoken by the descendants of immigrant Canary Islanders who settled in St. Bernard Parish Louisiana during the late 18th century.
Curaçao Creole – spoken in Caribbean Island of Curaçcao
Portuguese Creole
Cape Verdean – spoken on the island of Cape Verde to the west of Senegal.
Bipolar disorder and depression affect tens of millions globally, long treated as strictly brain-based illnesses, yet both consistently show high rates of insulin resistance and metabolic disturbances
A 2025 Nature Neuroscience study found that pancreatic insulin release and hippocampal activity are linked through a circadian feedback loop. This suggests bipolar mood shifts arise from disrupted metabolism, not brain chemistry alone
Earlier research in 2022 showed lithium stabilizes mood partly by restoring insulin signaling, while a clinical trial found metformin improved both insulin sensitivity and psychiatric symptoms in treatment-resistant bipolar depression patients
Insulin resistance is extremely widespread, with around 40% of Americans affected, driven by refined sugars, seed oils, stress, sleep loss, and environmental exposures that disrupt the body’s natural energy regulation
Supporting insulin sensitivity involves stepwise changes, replacing damaged fats and ultraprocessed foods, introducing gut-friendly carbs and fibers gradually, managing stress, improving sleep, and staying active to stabilize both metabolic and mental health
Bipolar disorder and depression affect millions of people worldwide. Estimates suggest that more than 37 million people live with bipolar disorder,1 and close to 4% of the global population experiences major depression.2 These conditions are almost always described as brain-based, centered on chemical imbalances, circuitry disruptions, or genetic vulnerabilities, and that view has shaped their treatment for decades.3
Another factor that deserves attention is how often these same conditions are accompanied by metabolic disturbances, particularly insulin resistance. The consistent overlap makes it clear that your mental health and your metabolic health are deeply connected, bound together in ways that standard treatment models have rarely recognized.
Recently, researchers have begun to investigate this connection in greater depth.4 Their work suggests that disturbances in insulin signaling are one of the hidden drivers behind the mood instability seen in bipolar disorder and depression, opening a broader understanding of how disrupted energy regulation manifests as both metabolic disease and psychiatric illness.5
What Is the Role of Insulin?
Insulin is one of the body’s most important signaling hormones. Its primary job is to help your cells take in glucose, which is the main fuel that keeps them alive and functioning. Without insulin, glucose stays in your blood instead of moving into your tissues, and your cells are left without the energy they need to work properly.6,7
• Insulin is produced by beta cells in the pancreas — Once released, it travels through your bloodstream and attaches to receptors on the surface of your cells. This connection signals the cells to open specialized channels so glucose can flow inside and fuel the chemical reactions that sustain life. When this process runs smoothly, every organ in your body has access to the energy it requires.
• After a meal, this system springs into action — As blood sugar rises from the carbohydrates you eat, your pancreas quickly senses the change and responds by releasing insulin. The hormone acts almost immediately, moving glucose out of the blood and into your cells, preventing sugar levels from climbing too high. This not only protects you from dangerous spikes in blood sugar but also ensures that your cells have a constant stream of energy to draw upon.
• Insulin plays a stabilizing role in your body’s overall energy — Although insulin’s work happens on a microscopic level, the impact is enormous. From the way your brain processes thoughts to the way your muscles contract during movement, every action depends on insulin’s ability to keep energy flowing.
• Insulin also affects how your body stores and manages that energy — It signals when to store glucose in your liver and muscles as glycogen, a form of backup fuel you can draw on later when you are active or between meals. It influences how much fat is stored, how muscle tissue is preserved, and even how hungry or full you feel.
By integrating these signals, insulin makes sure that your energy needs are met not just in the moment but in the hours and days that follow. Its goal is always the same — to match the supply of fuel with the demands of your cells, so your body and brain function without interruption.
Despite the precision of this system, insulin’s balance can be disrupted. The effect of this breakdown does not stop at your muscles or liver. It extends to your brain, where neurons also depend on insulin to regulate energy use.
How Insulin Signaling Links the Pancreas to Mood Shifts
Recent research published in Nature Neuroscience examined how pancreatic function may influence mood regulation in bipolar disorder. The researchers began with pancreatic islets derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (adult cells reprogrammed to develop into many different cell types) taken from individuals with bipolar disorder. These cells showed reduced insulin secretion, linked to abnormally high expression of the gene RORβ, already recognized as a genetic risk factor for the condition.8
• Modeling RORβ effects in mice — To test how this genetic change influences behavior, researchers engineered mice with RORβ overexpressed specifically in pancreatic β cells. During the light phase, the animals showed depression-like behaviors, while during the dark phase, which is normally their active period, they exhibited mania-like behaviors. This alternating rhythm mirrored the mood swings of bipolar disorder.
• Suppressed insulin tied to hippocampal hyperactivity — In the light phase, RORβ overexpression suppressed insulin release from pancreatic islets. This was accompanied by increased hippocampal activity. Since the hippocampus regulates mood, memory, and stress responses, the findings revealed that reduced pancreatic insulin coincided with abnormal hyperactivity in mood-related brain circuits.
• Carryover effects into the dark phase — The hippocampal hyperactivity seen during the light phase influenced pancreatic function later in the cycle. By the dark phase, insulin release rebounded to higher-than-normal levels, hippocampal activity dropped, and the mice shifted into mania-like behavior. The study showed how disruptions in one part of the cycle set the stage for opposite changes in the next.
• Discovery of a circadian feedback loop — Researchers identified a feedback circuit connecting pancreatic insulin release with hippocampal neuronal activity. Insulin influenced how the hippocampus functioned, and hippocampal activity fed back to alter pancreatic insulin secretion. This loop was governed by circadian rhythms, meaning that time-of-day changes were central to the observed mood fluctuations.
The findings suggest that the alternating depressive lows and manic highs of bipolar disorder stem from a dysregulated pancreas-hippocampus circuit. Metabolic and mood symptoms represent two sides of the same biological process, linked through circadian feedback.
• Broader relevance to other conditions — Although focused on bipolar disorder, the results also apply to conditions where metabolic dysfunction and mood instability appear together, including major depression and schizophrenia. Because RORβ also regulates circadian timing, the work highlights the therapeutic potential of strategies that align with daily rhythms, such as medication scheduling, light therapy, or dietary timing.
The study reframes bipolar disorder as more than a disorder confined to the brain. By linking a genetic risk factor to disrupted insulin release in the pancreas and to circadian shifts in hippocampal activity, it positions metabolism at the very core of conditions that have long been treated as if they were separate from it.
Earlier Evidence Linking Insulin to Bipolar Disorder
In 2022, researchers began framing bipolar disorder through the lens of metabolism, showing how disrupted insulin signaling might underlie the instability of mood. Two key studies that year pointed to the same conclusion — correcting insulin resistance can restore stability in a condition long defined by treatment resistance.9,10
• A new perspective placed insulin resistance at the center of bipolar pathology — A Translational Psychiatry perspective argued that lithium’s therapeutic power could be explained not only by its influence on neurotransmission but also by its ability to restore insulin signaling inside the brain.
Lithium acts on the PI3K/Akt pathway and its downstream target glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3), which are both central to insulin’s role in regulating neuronal energy use. By modulating these pathways, lithium improves glucose uptake in neurons, ensuring they have the energy needed for stable function. This reframed bipolar disorder as a problem of energy dysregulation, not just neurotransmitter imbalance.11
• A proof-of-concept trial tested the metabolic model in patients — That same year, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Dalhousie University conducted a clinical trial with 45 middle-aged patients suffering from treatment-resistant bipolar depression.
On average, participants had been ill for more than 25 years, failed nearly a dozen psychiatric medications, and lived with unremitting symptoms. They were randomized to receive either metformin, a common insulin-sensitizing drug, or a placebo, while continuing their usual psychiatric care.12
• Metformin improved both insulin sensitivity and psychiatric symptoms — Within weeks, patients receiving metformin began to improve. By 14 weeks, half had regained insulin sensitivity, and this biological change coincided with sharp reductions in depression and anxiety.
Improvements persisted for up to 26 weeks, marking a dramatic turnaround for individuals who had seen little relief in decades. According to study coauthor Dr. Jessica Gannon:
“Given that the only other therapy that works comparably well is electroconvulsive therapy — a procedure that involves applying electrical current to the patient’s brain, causing a controlled seizure — achieving the same result just by restoring insulin sensitivity seems astounding.”13
Both of these studies showed that bipolar disorder is deeply tied to impaired insulin signaling, whether in neurons unable to efficiently use glucose or in systemic resistance blunting insulin’s effects throughout the body. Correcting these disturbances stabilized mood where traditional psychiatric drugs had failed.
Why Is Insulin Resistance So Alarmingly Common?
In the United States, around 40% of people are insulin-resistant.14 The reason it is so widespread has much to do with the way you eat, live, and interact with your environment.
• The type of sugar you consume plays an important role — When you eat a piece of whole fruit, the natural sugars are packaged with fiber, vitamins, and minerals that slow absorption and ease the demand on your pancreas. But when you drink a soda or eat candy loaded with refined sugar, there are no such buffers.
Glucose floods into your bloodstream, your blood sugar rises rapidly, and your pancreas responds by releasing large amounts of insulin. When this happens repeatedly, day after day, your cells begin to dull their response to insulin, and resistance takes hold.
• The kinds of fats you eat also matter — Seed oils such as soybean and corn oil have become a staple in modern processed foods. These oils are highly unstable, breaking down easily into harmful byproducts, especially when heated.
Over time, these byproducts damage your cells and interfere with how they respond to insulin. They also change the very makeup of your cell membranes, which disrupts the function of insulin receptors and makes it even harder for your cells to use glucose effectively.
• Beyond diet, environmental exposures add to the problem — Certain plastics release chemicals that act as endocrine disruptors, impairing the way your hormones work. Constant exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from electronic devices has also been shown to influence cellular stress responses. These hidden factors layer onto an already heavy metabolic load, making it even more difficult for your body to keep insulin signaling on track.
• Lifestyle patterns further push the balance in the wrong direction — Chronic stress keeps cortisol levels elevated, and cortisol directly reduces your cells’ sensitivity to insulin. Poor sleep disrupts the hormones that regulate hunger and blood sugar, making you more likely to crave sugary or starchy foods while also leaving your body less able to handle them.
Physical inactivity exacerbates these problems. When your muscles are not regularly contracting and using glucose for fuel, the sugar remains in your bloodstream, and your pancreas is forced to release more insulin to try to keep up.
• All of these factors overlap in ways that strain your metabolism — They create an environment where insulin is constantly working harder to move glucose into your cells, while your cells are responding less and less. Over time, the result is a system that can no longer keep up, leaving you vulnerable to a cascade of health problems that begin with impaired energy regulation.
In this photo illustration, a key is seen in front of a computer screen displaying the Airbnb logo in Ankara, Turkiye on November 22, 2023. [Dilara İrem Sancar – Anadolu Agency]
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The Association of Jurists for the Respect of International Law (JURDI) has sued Airbnb in France for listing properties in Palestinian territories occupied by Israel in the West Bank, the BFMTV broadcaster said Tuesday, Anadolu reports.
JURDI, a non-profit group in France that advocates for international law regarding the Israeli-Palestine conflict, accuses Airbnb of supporting war crimes by listing the properties in occupied territories in the West Bank. It is asking the court to order the company to remove listings in Israeli settlements.
“By offering these accommodations, Airbnb contributes to the normalization and perpetuation of the colonial regime, by providing financial resources to settlers and legitimizing their presence,” JURDI said in its lawsuit, excerpts of which were seen by BFMTV.
Attorney Helene Massin-Trachez, who is leading the case, said French law prohibits offering contracts that violate public order, arguing that Airbnb was doing exactly that by promoting unlawful rental agreements to clients based in France.
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 13, and if the court rules in JURDI’s favor, Airbnb will have eight days to comply before facing a €5,000 ($5,740) fine for each day of delay.
The company defended its actions when contacted by BFMTV, denying it profits from the international situation and vowed to remain committed to addressing each of the situations “with the greatest care.”
The French Human Rights League (LDH) filed a complaint against Airbnb and Booking.com last month for listing properties in Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories.
The complaint accuses those companies of complicity and aggravated concealment of war crimes, underlining that the platforms promote “occupation tourism” by offering listings in Israeli settlements.
Russia has opened the door to supplying hypersonic missiles to Venezuela as a deterrent against a possible U.S. invasion.
Alexei Zhuravlyov, deputy chairman of Russia’s parliamentary defense committee, warned that “America may be in for some surprises” if it attempts to remove the Maduro dictatorship from power.
“I see no obstacles to supplying a friendly country with new developments such as the Oreshnik or, let’s say, the well-proven Kalibr missiles,” Zhuravlyov told the Russian news site Gazeta.Ru.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that the Oreshnik missiles possess such overwhelming power that launching several of them with conventional warheads would unleash destruction comparable to a nuclear strike.
The Oreshnik was first deployed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro in November 2024, in retaliation for Ukraine’s use of Western-supplied long-range weapons, including British and American Storm Shadow missiles, against targets inside Russia.
The warning comes after Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro pleaded for military assistance from both Moscow and Beijing amid reports that President Trump is planning an operation to remove him from power.
In his letter to the Kremlin, Maduro requested additional Sukhoi Su-30MK2 fighter jets, describing them as “the most important deterrent the Venezuelan national government had when facing the threat of war.”
Over the weekend, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the Kremlin condemns “the use of excessive military force in carrying out anti-drug tasks.”
This file photo shows former al-Qaeda member Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the head of the HTS-led regime in Syria.
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The United States has submitted a draft United Nations Security Council resolution that calls for lifting sanctions on Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the head of the HTS-led regime in Syria, ahead of his meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on November 10.
The draft resolution would also lift sanctions on Syria’s self-proclaimed interior minister, Anas Khattab, who was one of the leaders of the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group, Jabhat al-Nusra.
It was not immediately clear when the draft resolution, seen by Reuters on Tuesday, could be put to a vote.
The HTS, a former branch of al-Qaeda, along with other militants, seized control of Damascus on December 8, 2024, forcing former President Bashar al-Assad, a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause, to leave the country.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently described how the Israeli military helped the HTS takeover of Syria in December.
Since May 2014, the HTS has been on the UN Security Council’s sanctions list.
Its leader, Jolani and Khattab are among several HTS members who are also under UN sanctions that include a travel ban, asset freeze, and arms embargo.
However, a Security Council sanctions committee has been regularly granting Jolani travel exemptions this year.
Thus, the HTS leader is still likely to be able to travel to Washington even if the US-drafted resolution is not adopted before Monday.
In May, Trump announced that all US sanctions on Syria would be lifted.
Trump made the announcement in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, during his visit to the kingdom, where he met with al-Jolani, who expressed readiness to normalize ties between Damascus and Tel Aviv.
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The Most Revolutionary Act 