Binance US exchange sued by crypto investor over stablecoin collapse
Binance US and its CEO were sued on Monday by a US investor who alleges the cryptocurrency exchange falsely marketed Terra USD as a safe asset ahead of the so-called ...
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Russia strikes weapons depot with cruise missiles, Russian town hit by shelling, four injured
Russia struck an artillery weapons depot with Kalibr cruise missiles in Ukraine‘s Chernihiv region, the RIA news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the Russian defence ministry.
Russian air defence ...
Google offers to let ad rivals place YouTube ads in EU antitrust probe
Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) has offered to let rival ad intermediaries place ads on YouTube to address a crucial part of an EU antitrust investigation that could pave the ...
EU to buy 110,000 monkeypox vaccines with deliveries from end of June
The European Union will sign an agreement with an undisclosed manufacturer on Tuesday for the supply of about 110,000 doses of vaccines against monkeypox to be delivered from the end of ...
Austria announces 6 bln euro package to address cost-of-living crisis
Austria’s conservative-led government on Tuesday announced a package of measures, which it said would cost six billion euros ($6.3 billion) this year, aimed at cushioning the blow to households of ...
UK says no reason for negative EU reaction to N. Ireland law
Britain told the European Union on Tuesday there was no reason for its negative reaction to London’s plan to override some post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland, after Brussels ...
Ferrari’s season speeds from delight to ‘disaster’
Ferrari’s early season delight has become a discussion of disaster after the Italian team’s nightmare in Baku on Sunday, but it is still too early to write off ...
El Salvador minister says Bitcoin crash poses ‘extremely minimal’ fiscal risk
El Salvador’s Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya on Monday dismissed concerns that a sharp drop in the value of bitcoin could hurt the Central American nation’s fiscal health.
El ...
Elon Musk to address Twitter employees for first time in Town Hall
Elon Musk will speak to Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) employees this week for the first time at a company-wide meeting since launching his $44 billion bid in April, a source said ...
Crypto contagion fears spread after Celsius Network freezes withdrawals
Bitcoin fell as much as 14 per cent on Monday after major US cryptocurrency lending company Celsius Network froze withdrawals and transfers citing “extreme” market conditions, in the latest sign of ...
Google, Facebook, Twitter to tackle deepfakes or risk EU fines
Alphabet Inc unit Google (GOOGL.O), Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc(TWTR.N) and other tech companies will have to take measures to counter deepfakes and fake accounts on their platforms ...
Macron fights to save his parliamentary majority and reform agenda
President Emmanuel Macron could lose his outright majority in France‘s parliament and the ability to push through his economic reform agenda with a free hand after a strong showing ...
Britain defies EU with ‘relatively trivial’ N.Ireland law
Britain published plans to override some post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland by scrapping checks and challenging the role played by the European Union’s court in a new clash ...
Five killed, 22 injured in Ukranian artillery attacks in Donetsk, Russian-backed separatists say
At least five people were killed on Monday in the Russian-backed separatist Ukrainian region of Donetsk in what separatist officials said has been an upsurge in Ukrainian shelling.
Separatist officials ...
Civilians shelter in chemical plant as Russian artillery pounds Sievierodonetsk (Updated)
Russian forces pushed into the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk and pounded a zone where hundreds of civilians were sheltering, a Ukrainian official said on Monday – a scene that echoed ...
Wikipedia fights Russian order to remove Ukraine war information
The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, has filed an appeal against a Moscow court decision demanding that it remove information related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, arguing that people ...
Britain to defy EU with ‘relatively trivial’ N.Ireland law (Updated)
Britain will set out plans on Monday to override some of the post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland, scrapping checks and challenging the role played by Brussels in a fresh ...
Macron’s centrists edge ahead of left in French first round vote
French President Emmanuel Macron‘s centrist alliance won the first round of lower house elections on Sunday by a razor-thin margin over the left bloc of Jean-Luc Melenchon although it ...
Astronomers ponder ‘cosmic mystery’ over powerful radio wave bursts
Powerful bursts of radio waves emanating from a distant dwarf galaxy that were detected using a massive telescope in China are moving scientists closer to solving what one called a “...
‘Strange Loop,’ ‘Lehman Trilogy’ earn Tony honors as Broadway celebrates return
“A Strange Loop,” the story of a Black gay man and his mental struggles as a playwright, won the Tony award on Sunday for best new musical as Broadway honored ...
Gun reform deal forged by US senators, with key Republican backing
In a potential breakthrough toward the first significant new U.S. gun law in decades, a bipartisan group of senators on Sunday announced an agreement on a framework for a ...
Tasty name but no Big Mac: Russia opens rebranded McDonald’s restaurants
It might look and smell like McDonald’s but now it’s Vkusno & tochka. The golden arches are gone, the Filet-O-Fish is simply a fish burger. The Big Mac ...
Back to the land: Lebanese family turns to farming to survive crises
In a remote village in southern Lebanon, Qassem Shreim crouched low to examine his wheat crop. Food costs have soared amid a global wheat crisis and Lebanon’s own economic ...
Cosmetics maker Revlon nears bankruptcy filing
Cosmetics maker Revlon Inc (REV.N) is preparing to file for chapter 11 protection as soon as next week, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the ...