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LAHORE: The police booked a singer for performing a song titled “Qaidi No 804” during a government-sponsored cultural event at the Shalimar Gardens here on Sunday. The suspect, a Qawwal, has been accused of giving the event ‘political colour’ as the song was associated with the jailed PTI founder Imran Khan. In the FIR, the complainant, the Shalimar Gardens in charge, Mr Zameerul Hasan, alleged that the singer, Faraz Khan, deliberately tried to exploit the cultural event and instigate people, as the song was associated with a particular political party. He said a music and cultural night was organised by the Walled City of Lahore Authority, which was a non-political event. However, he alleged the singer and his companions sang the song, associated with the PTI leader, on the demand of some audience. He told the police that the suspect should have kept in his mind that the event was open to the public, and was attended by people having affiliations with different political parties. The controversial song posed...

Президент США Дональд Трамп объяснил, что думает о заявлениях Кремля о якобы "атаке" Украины по резиденции Владимира Путина в Новгородской области России.

Pepe, Bonk, and other meme coins soar with double-digit gains as risk-on sentiment renews amid improving geopolitical and fiscal policies.

Ethereum processed $8 trillion in stablecoin transfers during Q4, nearly double Q2’s volume, while active addresses and daily transactions peaked. Stablecoin transfer volume on Ethereum surpassed $8 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2025, marking a new all-time high, Token Terminal reported on Monday. The $8 trillion milestone is almost double the transfer volume figure for the second quarter, which was just over $4 trillion, according to Token Terminal’s chart. Stablecoin issuance on Ethereum increased by around 43% in 2025 from $127 billion to $181 billion by year’s end, according to BlockWorks.   Read more

The U.S. capture of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro sent oil to four-year lows, while crypto markets have held steady.

Ethereum's co-founder says PeerDAS and zkEVMs have solved crypto's scalability vs. security vs. decentralization trade-off. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin claims Ethereum has “solved” one of the biggest challenges in crypto: the blockchain trilemma. In a X post on Saturday, Buterin emphasized the potential of peer data availability sampling (PeerDAS) and Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (zkEVMs), noting that these two upgrades are making Ethereum “a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network.” “Now, Ethereum with PeerDAS (2025) and ZK-EVMs (expect small portions of the network using it in 2026), we get: decentralized, consensus and high bandwidth,” he said, adding:  Read more

В ночь на 5 января россияне осуществили массированный удар беспилотниками по Киевской области, в результате чего известно о разрушениях, по меньшей мере одной жертве и перебоях со светом.

• People’s Unity alleges privatisation bidding process lacked transparency; employees barred from participation • Claims collective bargaining agent has expertise to turn around loss-making flag carrier ISLAMABAD: In what appeared to be a lost battle, the PIA Employees’ Combined Bargaining Agent (CBA), People’s Unity, has asked the government to put on hold the signing of the airline’s share purchase agreement (SPA) and the transfer of management control to the Arif Habib-led consortium until consideration of its reservations and a counter-offer. In a letter to PIA’s board of directors, the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Privatisation, the union alleged that the privatisation process culminating in the bidding was non-transparent, claiming that employees were not allowed to participate. It said the CBA had the expertise to turn around the loss-making national carrier through professional management and a competent board. People’s Unity President Hidayatullah Khan said the government was repeating “th...

Transaction volume jumped nearly 300% as memecoin market capitalization rose more than 23%, rebounding sharply from late-2025 lows across the sector overall. Crypto traders flooded back to memecoins as the new year turned, driving memecoin market capitalization up by over 23% in the last week after trading at a yearly low in the final days of 2025. The memecoin market cap crossed $47.7 billion on Monday, up from $38 billion on Dec. 29, according to cryptocurrency data platform CoinMarketCap. The top three memecoins by market capitalization have posted double-digit gains in the past week. Dogecoin (DOGE) has gained over 20%, Shiba Inu (SHIB) has risen 19.9%, and Pepe (PEPE) has soared by over 65%. Read more

Key metrics tracking the development of Bitcoin Core show 2025 was a good year for the blockchain, with more developers contributing more code, says Jameson Lopp. Bitcoin developers working on the software that powers most nodes backing the blockchain had a busy year in 2025, with more developers pushing out more code, according to Bitcoiner Jameson Lopp. Lopp, the co-founder of the crypto management platform Casa, said on Sunday that 135 different people had contributed code to Bitcoin Core last year, rising from just over 100 individuals in 2024 and continuing an uptrend. The number of contributors peaked in 2018 with nearly 200 contributors. Those developers also changed more code, with Lopp reporting 285,000 lines of code were changed last year, a more than 3% jump from the 276,000 lines of code changed in 2024. Read more

Президент США Дональд Трамп не исключает возможности проведения военной операции на подобии той, что была реализована в Венесуэле, в Колумбии.

Ночью 5 января россияне ударили по Киеву "Шахедами", в результате чего в одном из районов города поднялся пожар и пострадало медицинское учреждение.

Planurile președintelui american Donald Trump de a relansa sectorul energetic al Venezuelei cu ajutorul companiilor americane ridică semne de întrebare, în condițiile în care marile grupuri petroliere par reticente să își asume riscuri financiare majore, relatează Bloomberg.

51-летний голливудский актер Леонардо Ди Каприо из-за специальной военной операции США в Венесуэле и транспортного хаоса "застрял" в Карибском бассейне.

Media attention shifted from bitcoin’s environmental footprint to crime and kidnapping in 2025, while overall sentiment remained broadly neutral, according to crypto intelligence platform Perception.

Nu de Amerikaanse aanval op Venezuela naar tevredenheid is uitgevoerd, richt president Donald Trump zijn blik alweer op andere landen die mogelijk eenzelfde lot zijn beschoren. Zondag noemde hij Mexico en Colombia. Volg alle gebeurtenissen in ons liveblog.

Nobel Prize-winning Bitcoiner María Corina Machado is one of three looking to replace Nicolás Maduro as Venezuela's president after he was captured on Saturday. Following the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, attention has turned to the country’s transition to new leadership — and one Bitcoiner is in the running to lead that charge. María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025, is the second-favorite to lead Venezuela’s shift away from authoritarian rule under Maduro, who has been transferred to New York to face federal charges related to narcotics trafficking and corruption. Data from predictions market Kalshi shows Machado has a 28% chance of leading Venezuela by the end of 2026, trailing only Unitary Platform’s Edmundo González Urrutia (32%), who is widely believed to have won Venezuela’s election in May 2025 but was blocked from assuming the presidency by Maduro’s United Socialist Party. Read more

Cauzele căderii părului sunt adesea puse exclusiv pe seama geneticii. În realitate, explică medicul american Mark Hyman, fenomenul este mult mai complex și strâns legat de dezechilibrele metabolice din organism.

Alle slachtoffers van de brand in een bar in het Zwitserse Crans-Montana zijn geïdentificeerd, melden de autoriteiten. De brand rond de jaarwisseling in bar Le Constellation, die mogelijk werd veroorzaakt door vuurwerkfonteinen in flessen, eiste veertig levens. Nog eens 119 mensen raakten gewond, voornamelijk tieners en jongvolwassenen.