Tue 13 February 2024: Payments from crypto-related ransom attacks have nearly doubled to a record $1 billion in 2023, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has said. Scammers targeting institutions such as hospitals, schools and government offices for ransom pocketed $1.1 billion last year, compared with $567 million in 2022. However, losses stemming from other crypto-related crimes […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: The price of bitcoin rocketed beyond $50,000 today, as investors continue to pile into new spot ETFs which received approval last month. It marks a significant turnaround for the cryptocurrency which fell to a low of $16,000 in the wake of the collapse of FTX in 2022. In 2023, it languished between $20,000 […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: The British government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is fundamentally incompatible with the country’s human rights obligations, according to a joint committee report released today. “Measures intended to remove barriers to sending individuals to Rwanda, including mandating that courts treat Rwanda as a ‘safe’ country and limiting access to […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s income topped £2mln last year as UK voters struggled with the cost of living crisis. The prime minister also paid more than half a million pounds in UK tax, The Independent reported. Sunak’s financial affairs have come under intense scrutiny since The Independent revealed his wife Akshata Murty held “non-dom” tax […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: The official TikTok account for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign was launched on Sunday night. This account is notable because most U.S. government-issued devices are now blocked from accessing TikTok. The “@bidenhq” TikTok account made its debut on Sunday amid Super Bowl 58 in the United States and Lunar New Year […]
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Mon 12 February 2024: With developments in the field of space, technological innovations, and access to information, many space terms have become a part of everyday life. Let’s look at those terms. Space: The boundless and infinite void in which all celestial entities and objects exist. Universe: The astronomical existence where all celestial bodies are located, limitless […]
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Sun 11 February 2024: Due to the devastation caused by severe rains in recent weeks, the Peruvian government announced a state of emergency on Saturday for at least 96 districts in 15 different areas of the nation. With effect for 60 days, the government’s decision permits “the execution of immediate and necessary emergency measures and […]
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Sun 11 February 2024: NATO partners who don’t fulfil their financial obligations would not get protection from Russia if Donald Trump were to re-take the White House in November, statements from Trump showed. Trump, campaigning in South Carolina ahead of the GOP primary on February 24, said he had told NATO members that they needed […]
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Sun 11 February 2024: Hungary’s president Katalin Novak has been forced to resign after she pardoned a man convicted of concealing child sex abuse at a state-run children’s home. Novak announced her resignation on Saturday after coming under mounting pressure for pardoning a man convicted as an accomplice for helping cover up a sex abuse […]
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Nepali mercenaries fighting for the Russian army in Ostrykivka, village near Tokmak in Zaporizhzhia, Russian-occupied Ukraine [Photo courtesy Atit Chettri] Sun 11 February 2024: Kathmandu, Nepal – On a bitterly cold morning in early January, somewhere near Tokmak city in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, Bimal Bhandari* began a risky journey to desert the Russian army he […]
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