🇨🇴🇫🇷 A French Foreign Legion soldier went home to Colombia on leave and got kidnapped. The French-Colombian corporal was travelling through Nariño earlier this month when an armed group reportedly realized he was with the Foreign Legion and took him. Colombia believes the group behind it is a breakaway faction of FARC led by Iván Mordisco, the country’s most-wanted guerrilla. These groups already make money from drugs, illegal mining and kidnappings, so a Foreign Legion soldier suddenly landing in their hands is a pretty big catch. Kidnapping for leverage makes sense in their world but a French soldier brings a lot of unwanted baggage with that leverage. Source: France 24 / Writer: Daniyal

Naming a women-led company Boys Club was either a very good joke or a direct attack on the timeline. Probably both. @medeana and @natashaghoskins started @BoysClubWorld in 2021 as a dinner for women and nonbinary people who were crypto-curious but not particularly interested in being mansplained to by a guy with a Pudgy Penguin profile picture. Now it’s a New York media and creative studio behind the Malware newsletter, podcasts, and events, with @Cait_Cavell and @mirandamartell making a lot of it. Some of the only crypto content that feels like it was made by people who leave the house. Boys Club speaks two languages the industry rarely manages at once: onchain and online. One minute it’s stablecoins, venture funding, and market structure. The next it’s celebrity gossip, peptides, or whether Silicon Valley has invented another consumer product nobody asked for. That’s the whole appeal. It makes crypto feel less like a whitepaper and more like a 3am Telegram group: chaotic, informed, funny, and somehow useful. Crypto has never lacked boys. What it lacked was a club the girlies actually wanted to join.

Narendra Modi’s critics seized on failures with India’s new airports as evidence of the government’s obsession with vote-winning optics over governing substance. But register for free to learn why the criticism is misguided

Narendra Modi has spent 4,399 days building the airports and metro lines India badly needs. Connecting them would be an even greater achievement Illustrator: Lehel Kovacs