DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s new Islamist rulers kicked off a long-awaited national dialogue conference on Tuesday as a “rare historical opportunity” to rebuild the country after fall of former President Bashar Assad and nearly 14 years of civil war. Some 600 people from different parts of Syria were invited to the gathering in Damascus, […]
A young American woman on a European trip was taken into custody after she allegedly threw a newborn out of a hotel window in Paris, killing the baby, authorities said Tuesday. The baby was reportedly thrown from a second-floor window of a hotel on Monday morning, according to the Paris prosecutor. Emergency responders rushed the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of a Chinese journalist accused of espionage called for his father’s release from a seven-year prison sentence in the high-profile case that signaled Beijing’s tighten grip on journalism. Dong Yuyu, then a senior editor at a Communist Party-run newspaper that was increasingly out of step with the party’s hardening line, […]
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis continued his treatment for pneumonia Tuesday as the Vatican set in motion a nightly marathon of prayers from “his house” and allies cheered him on from afar in hopes that the 88-year-old would recover. The Vatican’s typically brief morning update said: “The pope slept well, all night.” On Monday evening, […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Russia and Indonesia took steps on Tuesday to strengthen their defense ties with a meeting between a top Russian security official and Indonesia’s defense minister in the capital of Jakarta as Moscow’s war on Ukraine entered its fourth year. Ahead of the visit by Sergei Shoigu, secretary of the Russian Federation […]
Aux Cayes FinTech Co. Ltd, the operator behind the cryptocurrency exchange OKX, has pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business in violation of U.S. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws, agreeing to pay over $500 million in fines and forfeitures. Following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Aux Cayes will pay $84 million […]
U.S. authorities have recovered $31 million in cryptocurrency connected to the April 2021 hack of the now-defunct decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Uranium Finance. The seizure was the result of a joint operation between the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in San Diego, according to a […]
Michael Saylor of Strategy has once again made the news with his relentless Bitcoin acquisition. Unquestionably, the Strategy boss is shaping the market for a crypto bull run. What is the best crypto to buy after Saylor’s BTC buy? Saylor’s belief in Bitcoin as a life-changing financial asset positions Strategy as a leading corporate holder […]
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