Wed 22 October 2023: The US Justice Department announced Tuesday it seized nearly $9 million worth of Tether — a cryptocurrency pegged one-to-one with the US dollar. The seized funds were traced to cryptocurrency addresses allegedly associated with an organization that exploited more than 70 victims through romance scams and cryptocurrency confidence scams, which are […]
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Wed 22 October 2023: More than 10,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion last year, the United Nations says, with about half of the deaths in the past three months taking place far behind the front lines. The actual toll is expected to be “significantly higher” than the official tally since corroboration […]
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Tue 21 October 2023: Anticipation is building on Wall Street as the arrival of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) looms, heralding what is deemed as crypto’s breakthrough on the institutional stage. According to Bloomberg, the expected green signal from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for these ETFs is fuelling a fresh hype cycle, with […]
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Tue 21 October 2023: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday he is opening an investigation into the left-wing watchdog group Media Matters for publishing a report that said the social media platform X was placing pro-Nazi content next to ads. The repercussions to X were felt immediately after major advertisers such as Apple, Disney, […]
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Tue 21 October 2023: The U.S. on Monday announced $100 million in new security assistance to Ukraine as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin paid an unannounced visit to Kyiv. The package includes additional air defense capabilities, artillery ammunition, anti-tank weapons, and other equipment, including one High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), TOW anti-tank missiles, 155mm […]
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Mon 20 October 2023: Around 2 million UK homes have been forced to turn off their fridge or freezer to save money as they continue to face “frightening” levels of hardship, according to poverty campainers, The Guardian reported. According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), nearly half of those households have had to unplug their […]
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Mon 20 October 2023: Argentina has elected libertarian outsider Javier Milei as its next president, taking a chance on the eccentric economist’s programme of radical economic reform after decades of stagnation. Milei’s win heralds a dramatic shake-up of the Latin American country’s economy and institutions amid public anger over high inflation and record poverty rates […]
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Sun 19 October 2023: Fifteen government agencies have been keeping an eye on possible critics’ social media activity and gathering “secret files” to prevent them from speaking at public gatherings, a new Observer report has claimed. According to the report, several government departments, including the departments of health, culture, media and sport, and environment, food […]
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Sun 19 October 2023: Russia on Friday added The Moscow Times, an online publication covering Russia, to its list of foreign agents, a label authorities commonly use to stifle critics. Russia’s justice ministry also added an artist and journalists to the list that it traditionally updates on Fridays. “The online publication The Moscow Times disseminated […]
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Sun 19 October 2023: Tens of thousands of protesters have marched through Madrid in opposition to a controversial Catalan amnesty law that enabled Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to form a government for a second term. Sanchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) secured the backing of the Catalan separatist Junts party by offering amnesty to those linked […]
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