Bitcoin Falls to $111K as Trump Administration Implements Price Floors to Counter China
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the move is necessary to compete effectively against “non-market” economies like China. Trump’s Anti-China Price Controls Send Bitcoin to...
Ripple CEO calls for parity in treatment of TradFi, crypto companies
Brad Garlinghouse has asked that Ripple be “held to the same regulatory standards as a bank” as the company awaits a decision on a national charter...
‘Worse than starting from scratch’: how big is the task of rebuilding Gaza?
BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair....
Ukraine imposes blackouts in most regions after Russian power grid attacks
This will be the fourth consecutive winter of outages since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022....
Cracked windscreen forces US defence secretary’s plane to land in UK
The Pentagon says Hegseth and other military leaders on board, who were travelling back from a Nato meeting, are safe....
‘Father of our democracy’: Kenya’s Raila Odinga dies in India aged 80
President Ruto leads the tributes to Kenya’s former prime minister and long-time opposition leader....
China seizes 60,000 maps over ‘mislabelled’ Taiwan
The maps also omitted “important islands”, the source of competing claims between Beijing and its neighbours....
War crimes alert as food runs out in besieged Sudan city
Evidence of the intentional targeting of civilians in el-Fasher amounts to war crimes, researchers say....
Syria’s Sharaa meets Putin in Moscow for first time since fall of Assad
Syria’s leader suggested he would continue to allow Russia access to its military bases in Syria....
‘He transformed R&B forever’ – Stars pay tribute to D’Angelo, after his death at 51
The Grammy-winning singer, who died of cancer, “transformed R&B forever”, says Beyoncé....